King Billy Gates wants more foreign engineers

KING OF the Volehill, Sir William Gates III, has requested that the Bush administration abolish its limits on allowing foreign engineers into the country.

Not allowing his recent knighthood to go to his head, Gates told the panel that "if he were king", and he would "probably will get himself in trouble for putting it like that", he would want a more intensive study of nuclear power, improvements to US schools and higher research spending by government.

"I'd certainly get rid of the H1-B visa cap," Gates added. "That's one of the easiest decisions."

Gates personally showed up to lobby for changes in federal policy, which would eliminate the limit of 65,000 for overseas workers who can be hired each year by American firms under "H1-B" visas.

Gates pointed out to an invitation only panel discussion at the Library of Congress that the whole idea of the H1-B visa thing prevents too many smart people getting into America, which doesn't make much sense.

According to Internet News, here, Gates thinks that there is still a shortage of IT engineers in the US. Something a lot of unemployed US IT engineers might disagree with His Majesty about.

"Anybody who's got good computer science training, they are not out there unemployed," Gates said. "We're just not seeing an available labour pool."

Maybe they don't want to work for the Volish monarchy. µ