ZaZona Directory Rob Sanchez is one of the few lone voices out there documenting engineering job losess in the USA.
I would advise everyone to get on his Job Destruction Newsletter mailing list. It’s a genuine eye-opener. His latest missive came today. Let me quote:

JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER
by Rob Sanchez
July 11, 2004 – No. 1051
The Dallas Morning News joins the growing list of newspapers that have had editorials that claim there is a desperate shortage of engineers. As usual they support an H-1B increase to solve the imaginary national
crisis.

July 10, 2004 Dallas Morning News
July 7, 2004 Missouri Springfield News
June 6, 2004 Denver Post
June 6, 2004 Rocky Mountain News
May 30, 2004 Boston Globe
May 31, 2004 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

This editorial contains an amateurish contradiction that is so obvious one must wonder who they have writing their columns.

Compete America, a consortium of high-tech companies, wants Congress to exempt master’s and Ph.D. graduates of American universities from the H-1B cap. To us, that sounds much better than increasing the H-1B visa cap.

This newspaper wants to give an exemption to graduate students and yet they don’t want to increase the visa cap. Duh? Doesn’t somebody at this newspaper understand that giving exemptions to the cap to foreign students has the same net effect as raising the cap?

The editorial makes the preposterous claim that American students won’t go into engineering even if they are given $70,000 salaries – and they use Texas Instruments as an example. A little web research shows that graduate students, if they can get hired at Texas Instruments, can
expect to make a maximum of $60,000 starting salary.

Companies like TI also support programs to direct American students into engineering. But even the promise of good jobs, paying as much as $70,000 to start, hasn’t been a strong enough lure. This excerpt tells a very different story about starting salaries at TI.