Steve Jobs said it well, "this means war." The engineering profession as a whole needs to play "war" like adults. This is going to cost money like anything. A p

Steve Jobs said it well, "this means war." The engineering profession as a whole needs to play "war" like adults. This is going to cost money like anything. A permanent PR company that at least gets the engineering profession a louder voice than Marissa Mayer would be a start. A permanent lobbying budget to slowly but continually chip away at domestic and international threats to the buying power of your talent with changes in law is the other half of how grown ups play "war." No need to act like laborers and form a union or have strikes. Real change today happens via PR and lobbying. A well-funded and run professional organization formed with this as its sole agenda would do wonders for all of us.