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Tight US immigration forces outsourcing: Bill Gates
AFP via Breitbart ^ | 3/12/2008 | No attribution

Posted on 03/12/2008 8:59:01 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty

US high-tech companies are being forced to outsource more jobs overseas because of outdated restrictions on immigration, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates told Congress Wednesday.

Gates, echoing a longstanding complaint from the technology sector, told a congressional panel that the US immigration system "makes attracting and retaining high-skilled immigrants exceptionally challenging for US firms."

"Congress's failure to pass high-skilled immigration reform has exacerbated an already grave situation," Gates said in remarks prepared for delivery to a hearing of the House of Representatives Science and Technology Committee.

"As a result, many US firms, including Microsoft, have been forced to locate staff in countries that welcome skilled foreign workers to do work that could otherwise have been done in the United States, if it were not for our counterproductive immigration policies."

Gates said the limits on so-called H-1B visas aimed at highly skilled professionals are far too low for the rapidly growing tech sector.

He said the current cap of 65,000 H-1B visas "is arbitrarily set and bears no relation to the US economy's demand for skilled professionals."

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: h1b; immigration; india; lies; outsourcing; software; tech
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To: goodnesswins

Pedro can’t speak English, but he can develop a tremendous operating system.


21 posted on 03/12/2008 9:29:15 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220
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To: PreciousLiberty
As someone who has been using Bill's Products for more years than I care to admit (going back to Windows 95), not to mention all of the failures, crashes, lost data, near-nervous breakdowns, etc., I have one thing to say to Mr. Gates:

F*CK MICROSOFT

22 posted on 03/12/2008 9:29:45 AM PDT by Conservative Vermont Vet (One of ONLY 37 Conservatives in the People's Republic of Vermont. Socialists and Progressives All)
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To: PreciousLiberty
Force the a**hole to outsource, and hit him hard with outsourcing tariffs. That's what I'd do if I were "king" of the country. Punish him for not hiring home-grown talent at a decent wage. After all, what's the difference between outsourcing and bringing foreign programmers here? Either way, American programmers have no chance at getting those jobs.

But keep throwing away billions on "fighting" AIDS in Africa, Gates. You know how to make money (*cough* by outsourcing and screwing the skilled American worker *cough*), but you sure don't know how to spend it.

23 posted on 03/12/2008 9:30:38 AM PDT by Tarkus2040 ("Anything is possible if you don't know what you're talking about." --Barry Farber)
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To: PreciousLiberty

Oh, that Bill...he says the darndest things! He’s just cute as a button when he says stuff like that. Always good for a chuckle. Money sure doesn’t equal greatness.


24 posted on 03/12/2008 9:30:44 AM PDT by polymuser (Those who believe in something eventually prevail over those who believe in nothing.)
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To: avacado
Yep, Bill Gates is driving down tech salaries to embarrassing levels and then wants American kids to study science and math for peanut wages.

IBM is doing the exact same thing right now.
25 posted on 03/12/2008 9:36:53 AM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; The majority are satisfied with a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: ShadowAce

ping


26 posted on 03/12/2008 9:37:14 AM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; The majority are satisfied with a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: PreciousLiberty

It’s not just greed on Gates’ part.

He has all those stockholders to consider, doesn’t he?

Still deplorable though.

He is creating the vicious circle.

Truth be told, they don’t really want to hire Americans, period.


27 posted on 03/12/2008 9:38:33 AM PDT by Califreak (Hangin' with Hunter-under the bus "Dread and Circuses")
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To: californianmom

>Dear Bill,
1. Raise the salaries and U. S. citizens will do the jobs.

2. Use the Gates Foundation’s billions to train workers who have lost their jobs in manufacturing to learn tech jobs.

3. Learn a little public relations. Having the richest man in the world complaining that he can’t get U. S. workers to work at the salary someone from India is willing to take is more than a bit hypocritical. Spend your billions on suffering U. S. workers instead of in Africa.<

Your entire post makes me want to boycott these people!


28 posted on 03/12/2008 9:40:36 AM PDT by Califreak (Hangin' with Hunter-under the bus "Dread and Circuses")
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To: PreciousLiberty; rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; ...

29 posted on 03/12/2008 9:41:43 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: PreciousLiberty

30 posted on 03/12/2008 9:41:50 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Califreak
Your entire post makes me want to boycott these people!

I do. My personal PCs just have Linux on them.

31 posted on 03/12/2008 9:42:55 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: californianmom
2. Use the Gates Foundation’s billions to train workers who have lost their jobs in manufacturing to learn tech jobs.

Depending upon what you're talking about, that probably isn't possible - even in theory.

32 posted on 03/12/2008 9:44:01 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee (const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
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To: PreciousLiberty
If this were true, then why do hi-tech companies pack seminars explaining how not to hire Americans so they can get H1B's instead?

Carnegie Mellon American IT gradutes right here in Pittsburgh caught them on film right here in Pittsburgh at such a seminar just two years ago. There was enough embarassment over the fallout that some of the American graduates actually got hired.

CMU is still turning out graduates and they are still looking for jobs.

33 posted on 03/12/2008 9:44:55 AM PDT by Vigilanteman ((Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud))
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To: ShadowAce

Windows XP Pro “student edition” here. ;-D


34 posted on 03/12/2008 9:47:49 AM PDT by Tarkus2040 ("Anything is possible if you don't know what you're talking about." --Barry Farber)
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To: Vigilanteman

I can’t help but wonder what happens when the business world runs out of their low wage workers. I saw a story about rising wages in China this morning. Some wages have doubled in the past year so jobs are being outsourced to Vietnam.


35 posted on 03/12/2008 9:53:18 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Voting CONSERVATIVE in memory of 5 children killed by illegals 2/17/08 and 2/19/ 08)
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To: cripplecreek

“How bout paying more mister Billionaire”

BINGO!

We have a winner!


36 posted on 03/12/2008 9:55:44 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: PreciousLiberty
US high-tech companies are being forced to outsource more jobs overseas because of outdated restrictions on immigration, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates told Congress Wednesday.

He is such a liar! Thousands of Americans were laid off of the very jobs he's talking about. WHY, can't he rehire them? Oh, sorry. I forgot. Because he can rape overseas workers for less than Americans will work for. Not surprising coming from a liberal globalist. Will someone please explain to me what credentials give him the right to go before Congress to begin with? He is NOT an elected representative of Americans. I'm fed up with these wealthy elitists telling our Congress critters what America needs to do.

37 posted on 03/12/2008 10:01:31 AM PDT by NRA2BFree ("The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves!")
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To: PreciousLiberty

WOW....

Stunning to see so much populist, anti-free trade, pro-protectionism sentiment here on Free Republic.


38 posted on 03/12/2008 10:05:45 AM PDT by Chameleon
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To: Chameleon
Stunning to see so much populist, anti-free trade, pro-protectionism sentiment here on Free Republic.

Get used to it. It's the majority sentiment in the USA. Don't like it? Move to utopian china.
39 posted on 03/12/2008 10:08:23 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Voting CONSERVATIVE in memory of 5 children killed by illegals 2/17/08 and 2/19/ 08)
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To: Chameleon

IMOHO, we could use a tad more protectionism instead of government implemented and sanctioned policies that are killing us by degrees.

I’m seeing these policies more recently as a national security issue, not one of populism.

Free Trade and these work visas are cutting wages.

Outsourcing is making us far too dependent on other countries.

I don’t see how this is a good thing.


40 posted on 03/12/2008 10:17:47 AM PDT by Califreak (Hangin' with Hunter-under the bus "Dread and Circuses")
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