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But Rep. Steve Buyer, R-Ind., warned that fellow free-trade Republicans shouldn't make the mistake of thinking the jobs issue isn't real. "There's some realities out there that hurt Americans," he said. "There's a beginning of the erosion of the middle class in this country."Finally, someone in Congress who gets it! Too bad he's (a) a Republican and (b) not my Representative. My rep, I'm ashamed to admit, is that pinhead Tom Davis who was quoted as saying that "misguided concerns about jobs are setting the agenda now. What we're seeing is a continuing assault on free trade."

What really gets me steamed, though, is what is apparently a comment from Dan Farber that he apparently wrote as a comment on this ZDNet article. This comment was appended to the article summary that I got in my weekly e-mail digest of news articles from ZDNet:

The big issue is the diminishing number of IT
graduates in the U.S. The government should invest more in basic
math and science education as well as in R&D at universities, rather
than resorting to legislative protectionism.

Mr. Farber, you could not be more wrong. I have a college degree in computer science and where has it gotten me? I'm on the brink of being laid off so that my upper-middle-class job can be shipped overseas to India where someone will do the R&D I used to do for less than $10,000 a year. Why would anyone go into the computer science field in college these days? Kids aren't blind; they see where this industry is going. Education isn't the problem--it's the greedy corporations who are sending high-paying tech jobs overseas that are the problem.
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