its worker shortage brought about by no one in the US seeing the field as something they want to go into as a career.
the leading force behind this - parents who are currently employed in US tech, who see what is going on, and are piling their own kids into other college programs as fast as they can.
tech is not maturing as an industry as it should - cheap offshore labor is the reason. normally, to improve productivity in the face of high labor costs, businesses invest in automation. but when cheap labor is available, this investment does not take place. lettuce picking is a good example - why doesn't anyone invest to develop an automated lettuce picker? why bother, when mexican migrants are available at $40 per day. why aren't US companies investing in fully automated call center technology, with natural language capabilities? why bother, when call desk jockeys in India are available for $15K a year.
for the US, its the worst of both worlds - no investment in the new technologies for IT automation, and the existing jobs we do have are sent offshore. the only people making out are US executives and their investment bankers.
Well, you are then arguing against the concept of countries investing in other countries. Like I said in my original post, if you add up the $$$ and jobs, more jobs were added in the US by foreign countries investing in the US than were created by US companies investing outside of US (I am comparing equal worth/productivity and not just person for person hiring).