A good programmer with good DB skills is in great demand right now in the USA.

The real problem in the Anglo-Euro Sphere is that taxes are too high. You cannot take 50%+ of what a person earns or what a business makes and not stunt a nation's opportunities.

In ranching it is called overgrazing. Too many cows on too few acres. The grass dies. And that is what is occurring to the industrial base of small machine and IT shops.