Offshoring is stealing U.S. programming jobs

Even if American jobs went to other countries they wouldn't have been "stolen" by outsourcing.<p>The market (for anything) is global now and other countries have smartened up and trained workers in CS fields and can offer their skills at a lower rate. It is called arbitrage.<p>Sovereign boundaries are meaningless in a true global market place. The western countries have to adapt and change or our lunch will be eaten. Protectionism won't help either.

Programmers in the U.S. are so hard to find that companies like Google are willing to pay $100,000 to CS grads with no experience, but this article claims our jobs are being stolen by foreign countries?<p>I honestly don't think that could be an accurate assessment of the current job market, but I can't find the numbers to prove it so I'm hoping someone else can shed some light on it. If it's actually accurate, I'll be very surprised...