[Jim Sims]

There is no shortage of engineers in either country. There is a shortage of the "salary men" engineers who are willing to work 60 hours a week with no additional compensation. The claims of an engineering personnel shortage are often a ploy to justify more work visas for non-citizen engineers who will work for lower pay or to justify the export of engineering work to lower wage countries such as India, China, etc. Kind of a "race to the bottom" with little thought about future consequences.