MICROSOFT CHUTZPAH: THREATEN TRUMP OVER VISAS FOR FOREIGN WORKERS

Talk about chutzpah, nerve, and hypocrisy...and think Microsoft.  

Microsoft is threatening President Trump!  They claim they will move their operations out of the country if he doesn’t  ease up on his “hire American “ policy and allow them to (continue) to hire cheap foreign graduate-labor for US based jobs.  

What is Microsoft’s gripe?  

“ We don’t want to move jobs out of the United States...—-so we hope that decisions in Washington don’t make us do that “...threatened Microsoft company president Brad Smith, on July 12, 2018.  

 The Allen—Gates  Microsoft company was started in Albuquerque New Mexico in 1975 and in the 80s hit the market with the hugely popular “Windows and Office” software.  They now produce hardware, computers and cloud computing services among many other things.  Their main “campus” is in Redmond Washington.  Today they hire 124,000 employees.  They have total assets of over $240 billion dollars and revenue of about $90 billion annually.  

Microsoft already employs thousands  of foreign college graduate via a special temporary worker visa program—initiated by President Barak Obama—-which permits companies like Microsoft to hire recent foreign graduates to work in the USA at the rate of pay they would receive in their native country.    It’s a great deal for the American companies.  But it screws the young American graduate out of a job and also keeps starting wages low in a critical area of expertise.  

This program, according to Brietbart: See “Microsoft threatens President Trump....on Visa Outsourcing by Neil Munro (July 13, 2018).   “These foreign graduate visa programs already keep a shifting population which some estimate to be as much as 1.5 million foreign graduates in US jobs” according the Breitbart (above cit.).  The program now permits companies like Microsoft to hire as many as 85,000 foreign graduates annually. But the numbers are difficult to pin down since the individuals may rotate back into their native lands. But it is estimated that at any one time there are as many as 450,000 recent graduates working at low (or no pay) for firms in the USA and taking American jobs.  .  That is an awful plot of jobs...that could go to young deserving American graduates.  President Obama also initiated a visa work program for the spouses of these foreign graduate students to the tune of another 100,000 work visas.  That is another poke in the eye to young Americans seeking jobs.  

So its what they are saying is Microsoft doesn’t give a rat’s tail about America and the deserving young graduates of our nation.   

Since the election of President Trump in 2016 their stock has risen from the mid $60 dollar range up to well over $100 dollars. 

Microsoft has some nerve threatening the President.  

We should all be supporting our own young graduates.  President Trump’s program is right for America.