A Cisco CCIE+ friend of mine makes over 150 grand. Having watched him get his certification and the volumes of technical data he had to learn, and the systems he has to put together, and the hours he has to be available, there’s no doubt in my mind that he earns every penny, and that he’s in the top 1% of Americans on the ability scale.
I’m with you there and I too make a nice living managing a database team. However after 15 years there has been a decline in wages through the importation of cheap labor driven by greed. What Cruz proposes exacerbates this problem even more ensuring more big corporations will continue not hiring skilled Americans and again driving wages further south. This proposal is piss in a bucket of a much larger issue.