Stan writes:

> That's why we need more programmers in Washington, and more lawyers
> unemployed.

Well, we're not likely to get them. In 2000, the latest data that I have
available, at the doctorate level (although I personally don't equate a Juris
Doctoris with a Ph.D.; a JD to me is more akin to an extended Master's), the
United States graduated:

     o 40,000 JD's

and

     o 857 Ph.D.'s in computer science, half of which were non-residents.

Now while not everyone needs a Ph.D. in computer science, this can't be good
for the long-term future of the country. Worse yet, the fastest growing
college major in the United States is Parks, Recreation and Leisure and in
1997, with this major out-enrolling electrical engineering for the first
time, with the gap growing increasingly larger each year since.

There's going to be an awful lot of people asking here soon, "Do you want
fries with that?"

Wirt Atmar

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