Register Log in   Bill Gates makes the (bogus) case for more
(cheap) foreign labor  Gates goes on the warpath against quotas
that restrict his company's use of …  In an op-ed in yesterday's
Washington Post, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates argues yet again
in favor of raising the cap on H1-B foreign worker visas from
its present number of 65,000. Gates' basic argument boils down
to this: fewer students at American universities are opting for
computer science degrees, which means that we need to raise the
H1-B cap so that the software industry can import more foreign
labor to fill those jobs that Americans—for whatever
reason—don't seem to be equipped for.  Of course, the fact that
the importation of cheap foreign labor into the software
industry job market hampers American programmers' ability to
compete and leads to depressed wages overall is never mentioned
by Gates as a major reason why a computer science degree just
isn't that attractive any more to Americans. Who wants to spend
four or five years getting a