Actually, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell , Pizza Hut, Long John Silvers are US owned, based in Louisville, Kentucky.

Lisa, know you have family working at ab, but you have been drinking the busch family kool-aid tooo long. They are better at selling a bill of goods than running a company.

kfc,taco bell, long john silvers are owned by YUM! Brands, a publicly traded company based in Loiusvile, ky. However if you eat that stuff,” who owns what” won’t matter as you will be pushing daisies due to clogged arteries.

D. Walker–No, the problem of shortages of qualified people for certain jobs is a natural result of letting people choose what they want to do. We make decisions at an individual level, not at a collective level.

The government and corporations can only do so much planning.

Are you saying that too many Americans have chosen the IT profession? If you are, you are truly mistaken, and have now convinced me that you are a spin-doctor working for the government trying to calm everyone down believing lies conspired by big corporate America who controls our government.

I have been a loyal Budweiser drinker for nearly forty years. I can absolutely PROMISE you that I will NEVER drink another one. And, YES, I really mean it. Furthermore, if you continue to call it an ‘American lager’, I would consider it a deceptive trade practice.

I’m not commenting on the IT profession. I’m commenting on mine.

I’m commenting on basic economics–people make choices based on their values and not on those of the government or of big corporations. That is the fundamental basis for all economic (and psychological) theories. It’s really one of the most obvious, intuitive theories that exists. People make their choices because they are the right ones for them to make based on their values and beliefs.

These individual choices sum up to our economy. Our actions (as people and as corporations) adjust to reflect these individual decisions.

Let’s take IT work. If people believe they should work in IT, they will do it. That is the supply curve. The market, however, only demands so many people to do IT work at a given cost. That’s the demand curve. If more people choose to do IT work, the supply curve goes up. Demand changes in one of two ways–either the cost goes down and the increase in supply is absorbed, or if the cost stays the same employers will demand fewer workers than they currently employ. The IT market has experienced a little of both as more Americans and foreign nationals do IT work.

The shortage of employees in my industry can only be solved in two ways: Either we all pay a heck of a lot more for what I do (not a very appealing option for people other than me) or we have to increase supply. There’s really to way to immediately increase the supply in America given the education required for my job–we can’t suddenly train people to do it tomorrow. The easiest and cheapest way to increase our supply is to bring in more qualified people right now. That’s the idea behind the H1-B visa.

I thought that I was talking to someone who lived in the real world. No you live in your small world and obviously do not take the time to learn what is going on in the real world as proven by this statement and all your other posts.

“I’m not commenting on the IT profession. I’m commenting on mine”.

Sorry to inform you, but the world consist of a great more than you.

Furthermore Paul,

You do not even have a good grasp of what is really going with your immediate world or the corp[oration or government entity that you work for.

We’ve just going to have to agree to disagree on this one. I’m the one here hiring and firing people dealing with the reality of the labor market every day.

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Just because one hires and fires people proves nothing about their wisdom or leadership. You could possibly be just a fool with power in the workplace today.