[Feldkurat_Katz]

To answer the challenge, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer last month said in New York that the U.S. must churn out more math and science graduates. That would raise the supply of computer engineers -- and push down their salaries to about $50,000 a year, he says.

In order to address the problem of unemployment among computer engineers, we are going to produce more computer engineers. Dilbert's pointy-headed boss is a real person and his name is Ballmer.

[stylin19a]

here's the rest of that goofy quote:
Lowering U.S. salaries would make sending jobs to India less likely because ``the whole economics of that proposition starts to look quite a bit different,'' Ballmer said in a recent speech
Who the heck are they kidding?? Who the heck is stopping them from lower these salaries ?
I don't believe this for a minute.
I have yet to see MS or anybody offer these jobs @ 50k a year. I bet if they try they'll get applicants. It's my guess they wont. 50k is still more than they want to pay - especially if they only have to pay 6 bucks an hour, not 25 bucks an hour.