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So any policy that encourages jobs here in America has a much bigger effect than just the benefit of the initial number of jobs.

I don't think the policies encourage jobs but rather protect current ones... which will be less relevant in a decade. We're going to end up in a situation where the best jobs are those economies that have continued to evolve. If you need any evidence, I'll tell you the number of foreign nationals we hire because there is literally no one in the US qualified, technically, to do them. The US owns the IP so the workers from places that didn't complete, like India, are relocating en masse. Not only will we not own the IP of the future if we don't invest now, all the people trained to make use of it will emigrate to countries that do.

That's a pretty broad statement, but Big T is a businessman and protecting your current assets and your run rate is a fundamental principle of business growth. As technology changes, jobs change, that's a never ending cycle. Either way, you have to encourage new jobs to come here and current jobs to stay here.

Personally, I think the biggest threat to jobs in the US and across the world (mostly blue collar) is automation, robotics and AI. But economies change and adapt and we are a pretty resilient country of people even though most of the newer working generation are entitled and have higher opinions of their corporate worth than what is their reality. Your (and many, many other) company's IT hiring practices partly reflect that but are also because the tech industry changes more rapidly than almost any other I can think of. Even if we had enough skilled workers with appropriate skills, the "next hot skill" is constantly changing and I don't think demand is ever going to be met. Outsourcing is really your only option if you are heavily invested as an IT firm.