And its' spreading.... (Score 1)

I know this story is nothing new, matter-of-fact its an old one unfortunately. I used to work in another industry (Film) which was trashed by the creation of NAFTA, now all the work goes to Canada. So I went back to what I know, computers and after 3 years as an engineer my company lost their contract because the client we supported shipped the jobs to India and Mexico.
Fortunately, one of the business groups at the company didn't like this idea and were able to negotiate a local engineer for their needs - thus putting my job on life support. How long this will last is anyone's guess.
I now consider the IT field dead and once I lose my job for good I am moving back to Europe (my wife and kids are German passport holders) where I can find some meaningless job, non-computer related. Then I can go back to computers being my hobby, maybe at that time I can actually enjoy them as I once did because now they are only a source of heartache.

By the way, I know this isn't only a problem here in the U.S. I have many tech-worker friends back in Germany and they are reporting the same trend going on there as well. I don't know how companies can feel good about their technology and infrastructure being in the hands of a near 3rd world nation halfway around the globe nieghboring countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan. Got a feeling it will bite them in the ass later (one could only hope).