Re: Baseline article: Is There Really an IT Labor Shortage?

Can I add Gartner to you list? I am not sure when it happened. But
many moons ago I looked to them for trends and state of the industry.
The first time I read one of their obvious "we are here to make money
on outsourcing" articles, that lost 100% credability as far as I am
concerned. I have never believed their "bought" content since. That
name is so out of touch it is pathetic.

I view immigration as a net positive for most free-market economies, to the extent that it is, maybe for different reasons. People will go where there is work available. Immigrants to the US, including illegal, come because this is where there is work to be had.

It may depress wages somewhat, at least on the short term, as long as /ALL other things/ are equal/./ But that "other things" is much /_much_/ bigger than immigration. Ron Paul was dressing down Bernanke in a youtube piece over the M3 money supply growing almost 40 percent in one year. With NO real production to support it.

THAT is going to make prices start taking off to the vertical, it has already make other countries scramble for a way out of dollars, it's pushing up oil prices, edgeing us all into higher brackets.

I got a raise in a recent review, but the length of my commute makes it almost completely moot. Flat, in real terms.

Some of our brightest American science and technology luminaries who have pumped their smarts into American innovation and adaptability have been immigrants after all. Tesla, Einstein, Werner von Braun, Linus, Simonyi...

Immigration is a distraction to the much bigger root of those problems. It's like somebody's blaming the spider for the condition of the lawn and pretending the goat has nothing to do with it.

, which is top-down manipulation of monetary policy that makes mockery of the "consent of the governed", if the "governed" avoid the subject.

The mess that immigration is in comes from the great volumes of politically micromanaged little issues relating to them. Former INS agent once told me it's all about money. Fees, fees, fees.

--Alan