Many folks here probably don't remember a little trade agreement called NAFTA. The premise was simple - create jobs.

10 years later, we're now seeing what NAFTA really has done. Aside from killing manufacturing in the U.S., it now has eaten into the IT industry. Last year 3.5 million work VISAs were issued to non U.S. citizens. On top of that, NAFTA has allowed companies to outsource IT work to countries such as Mexico, India and China.

Well what's all this have to do with you? 1 in 6 IT jobs has been eliminated or moved overseas because of NAFTA. This creates a tremendous surplus of IT professionals competing for a very small amount of jobs.

If you are in College and are about to go searching for IT work, don't be discouraged when you are out of work a year later. You are among millions of other qualified candidates who are feeling the effects of what people like myself said would happen if NAFTA ever made it into law.

<rant over>