Gates vs Rohrbacher - Debate H1B Guest Workers Program and Tech Labor Shortage

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March 12, 2008
Competitiveness and Innovation on the Committees 50th Anniversary with Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft.

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• dana
• rohrabacher
• h1b
• microsoft
• immigration
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• technology
• india
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[nhb1234]

Bill is very powerful! If you watch Dan Rather on HD Net to see what this game is really all about. Guest workers from India are pouring into this country supported by Mr. Gates because they work for less. US workers are being terminated and replaced by Guest workers. Come on Bill own up and admit what this is all about. You own the congress, but they should pass laws blocking this continued ruin of our country by greedy business and Gov. Reps.

[linuxguru1968]

@nhb1234 Look up the work of Dr. Norman Matloff, Ron Hira and the Programmers Guild for more info on how H1B is just a cheap labor program; Gates and his foundation have lots of money to throw around DC, that why he gets heard; everyone knows H1B is a cheap labor scam but washington parasite hide behind the myth that they are immigrants who are starting Fortune 500 companies. Too bad not a single important company has NEVER been founded by an H1B.

[walterabyrd]

Watch Dan Rather's report "No Thanks for Everything" from HDNet, if you want to see the truth of the matter.

[linuxguru1968]

@walterabyrd wish you or someone could upload them to youtube. I was a tech worker until 2002; never worked after that. You would be suprised how oblivious the general public is to the H1B issue - they just dont know about it And college kids who cannot get jobs, they are in the dark that the politicians and their own universities are selling them out. Even worse Obama does even seem to know or care about the issue anymore.

[djjimi]

If IT workers imported from other countries were truly superior to Americans, one would think that Microsoft products would be improving. Sorry kids... they arent.

Microsoft has been playing games to save money on labor for years... first permatemps (which they had to pay nearly 100 million in a suit over), now H1b and increasing exporting of jobs are costing the US what's left of its decent paying jobs in exchange for corporate slavery.

It's wrong, and it needs to stop.

[linuxguru1968]

@djjimi Nothing that MS made billions on was actually INVENTED at MS. DOS was bought from another company. Windows came from XeroxParc via Apple. Word processing, spread sheets and their whole office suite was invented by other people who are never given credit or compenstation. They licensed IE from the University of Chicago code base... and the list goes on. And none of this stuff was invented by H1Bs.

[twinsfan1100]

Rohrabacher nailed Gates.

In response to Dana Rohrabacher, Bill Gates is doing a solid Barney Fife impersonation together with the squeaky voice and fidgety stammering.

[YesYou123333]

If this country doesn't stop importing these job thieves it will only get worse. China, over the past decade, has made an effort to educate more of it's population. There are tons of educated Chinese who have IT Degrees but the Chinese government can't employ them. There aren't enough jobs there. So, guess where they'll end up? India is nothing but a leach. They suck off the American tit to sustain their "economic power". India would be nothing but a "cow-worshipping" society without the US.

[cybercutealicious]

More than 150,000 computer programmers are out of work. I calculate over FOUR MILLION american engineers having lost their jobs. Think about it we imported 6 million indians for 4 million american engineering jobs. Worse! In 2008 and 2009 we imported (a total of ) 490,000 indians with fake degrees... DURING THIS RECESSION! BILL GATES YOU ARE A LIAR AND A PIECE OF SHIT

[MudHut67]

What a cockroach