Bill Gates Urges Congress to Foster Innovation & Immigration

3.12.08 testimony before House Science Committee

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• gates
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• innovation
• microsoft

[goma3]

The economic leadership in the world is largely due to highly qualified individuals from other countries. We should definitely recruit the most qualified in the world to maintain technological advantage. 15 years ago it was unheard of a scientist deciding to stay in China because of working conditions. Now it happens everyday. One more interesting fact 70%.. that's right 70% of all the grad students (tomorrow's scientists) in all US universities are foreign. MIT alone has 2500 in a pool of 3500

[adi87tya]

Have you been to a top engineering school in America? Most of the graduates hired by companies like Microsoft are Indians and Chinese...the problem is that not enough Americans graduating out of high school are going into highly skilled technical degrees...so the natural thing that happens is that universities accept people from abroad who are more interested in work and less interested in self-gratification

[kai0shin]

@jimmyjames133 don't reply to my comment then old man. Your generation is dead. Old people like you and McCain that are suffering from Alzheimer's will soon be gone. Then this country will be able to make some real progress....

Accept change stupid. You can't stop it. If you had any common sense, you would be able to see that but your old ass probably can't see anything....

[jimmyjames133]

@kai0shin piss off

[kai0shin]

@jimmyjames133...you moron. It's ignorant people like you that's ruining our country. You're an OLD, fat piece of garbage that can't accept change. I'm not Spanish nor do I want Spanish people taking over this country, but mass deportation is IMPOSSIBLE. We need to secure the border, legalize those who will benefit this country, deport those with criminal records and stop bringing in new immigrants. That is the ONLY Solution. Like it or not. Stop suggesting dumb ideas that is never gonna happen.

[jimmyjames133]

screw this H1-B traitor

[jimmyjames133]

@kai0shin those kids can take it up with their wetback parents that put them in that situation

[kai0shin]

What Bill is saying is "Pass the Dream ACT"

these kids have been living here since they were kids. They already went to high school and got their diplomas. Our tax dollars already paid for their education in public schooling. Lot of them are in college. And many of them already have their degrees. But they can't put it to good use b/c they are illegal.

and we wanna deport them?? sure, let em live here for years, learn, get degrees and kick em out?? doesn't make sense

Pass the Dream ACT NOW

[Stube437]

Have the politicans done anything about this?

[FreeMTrider]

@Rockguitarnow and with people like that do we need to wonder why the US is near the bottom in education?

[CorporateRule]

Long live Microsoft's Corporate Rule over the US Government.

We applaud Bill Gates for his continued efforts to thwart bad, anti-corporate Government sentiments and profit from innovation through effective use of pro-corporate lobbyists in swaying Governments to side with enterprise.

We appreciate Bill Gates for focusing on the free flow of profiteering through reduced IRS taxation for dominating global companies like Microsoft, there's no stopping us now.

[SuperMonty777]

The guy changed all our lives like it or not N.Ireland here thankyou Bill!