Comments on: Bill Gates says strict VISA rules hurting US http://www.finlandforthought.net/2005/01/31/bill-gates-says-strict-visa-rules-hurting-us/ Politics, current events, culture - From Finland & United States Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:39:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Anonymous http://www.finlandforthought.net/2005/01/31/bill-gates-says-strict-visa-rules-hurting-us/#comment-1160 Anonymous Thu, 03 Mar 2005 21:38:51 +0000 /?p=212#comment-1160 HEY I REALLY DON'T KNOW YOU BUT MY TEACHER IS MAKING US READ ABOUT YOU AND I JUST WANTED TO SHOW YOU SOME LOVE HEY
I REALLY DON’T KNOW YOU BUT MY TEACHER IS MAKING US READ ABOUT YOU AND I JUST WANTED TO SHOW YOU SOME LOVE

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.finlandforthought.net/2005/01/31/bill-gates-says-strict-visa-rules-hurting-us/#comment-1158 Anonymous Thu, 03 Mar 2005 21:31:30 +0000 /?p=212#comment-1158 Hey Bill Gates, Hey Bill Gates,

]]> By: Toni http://www.finlandforthought.net/2005/01/31/bill-gates-says-strict-visa-rules-hurting-us/#comment-730 Toni Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:28:18 +0000 /?p=212#comment-730 Check out the latest Reason. I think they had even some good statistics - the number of job applications from foreign countries to the US have dropped dramatically, and companies are having to arrange seminars, meetings etc in the Europe and other free continents now, which are making a big cut in corporate budgets. And... I found this in my quote file: "You exclude immigrants from our high-tech industries and what you get is Europe, where they have no important computer or semiconductor company now after 20 years of focusing on information technologies. There's been a steady stream of heavily funded European economic community industrial policies focused on semiconductors and computers, and Europe has ended this period without a single important computer or semiconductor company....In fact, many of the key contributors to the U.S. industry came here from Europe: Eastern Europe, Italy, Belgium, Britain, France. Where would we be if we hadn't welcomed them?" Check out the latest Reason. I think they had even some good statistics - the number of job applications from foreign countries to the US have dropped dramatically, and companies are having to arrange seminars, meetings etc in the Europe and other free continents now, which are making a big cut in corporate budgets.

And… I found this in my quote file:

“You exclude immigrants from our high-tech industries and what you get is Europe, where they have no important computer or semiconductor company now after 20 years of focusing on information technologies. There’s been a steady stream of heavily funded European economic community industrial policies focused on semiconductors and computers, and Europe has ended this period without a single important computer or semiconductor company….In fact, many of the key contributors to the U.S. industry came here from Europe: Eastern Europe, Italy, Belgium, Britain, France. Where would we be if we hadn’t welcomed them?”

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