Once again, it’s the Bill Gates propaganda show on Capital Hill.
This time Gates got his own personal hearing in front of the House Science Committee. Of course our representatives fawned and flattered, despite the fact Gates was spewing lies of astounding proportions.
Like a fountain of fictional statements, Bill Gates spouted his global labor arbitrage agenda. Spread like rancid butter across our Unrepresentative of America Congress, most just licked their lips in Bill Gates adulation.
Let’s go through some of the spin.
The threat from Bill Gates: Microsoft will offshore outsource jobs because Congress won’t let us bring in unlimited cheap labor.
This is an obvious lie for H-1Bs have been shown to enable offshore outsourcing and are referred to as the outsourcing Visa. Microsoft has been moving R&D offshore for years even when they had in essence unlimited guest worker Visas.
Gates claim that 1/4ths of startups are started by immigrants. Gates fails to note most immigrants did not come over on H-1B guest worker Visas. Also by the percentages of people in the field, the number of immigrants forming corporations is less that US citizens. Implying somehow that only foreigners have a lock on entrepreneurship is fairly discriminatory against Americans and Gates also fails to note…
