Microsoft 'elevates America' with free job training

[Deja Q]

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-271841.html

"Millions of individuals don't have the technology skills needed in today's economy. Through Elevate America, we want to help workers get the skills they need to succeed," Pamela Passman, Microsoft's VP for corporate affairs, said in a statement.

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:popcorn:

[rpannier]

1. No jobs. Just training

The jobs go to the H-visas

[Greyhound]

2. I believe that Infosys, WiPro, and M$ are the top three recipients of H-1(b) slaves. n/t

[Deja Q]

3. For 'slaves', they seem terribly willing.

:shrug:

[rpannier]

4. That is true

Read that somewhere last weekend that they are the biggest recipients

Bill Gates is the most visible supporter of H-1(b) visas

[madokie]

6. I read something along those lines in this mornings paper

micro$haft to the rescue, not

[MannyGoldstein]

7. I Believe That The Gates Foundation Is The #1 Contributor To Clinton's Foundation

Coincidence, no doubt.

[Deja Q]

5. Seems to be the case.

:(

On the plus side, the cycle will continue and India's economy and China's economy and ____'s economy will be torn asunder too. Is there not an old expression, "Once a cheater, always a cheater"?

:shrug:

(Helping to ruin others' economies is insipid, pure and simple. Doesn't matter which country, it's rotten - period.)

Assuming there is a greater good to all this and my mind isn't that inflexible... except too many Americans have been hit hard to not consider that either.

[ThoughtCriminal]

8. This is swell

Thousands can be trained on how to remove Vista.