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Microsoft's announcement coincidentally came a day after New York City announced an $81M public-private K-12 CS mandate, which prompted Microsoft's Smith to join fellow FWD.us PAC backers Ron Conway and Fred Wilson, as well other execs from Google, Facebook, and Goldman Sachs, to explain to the masses "Why Computer Science for All is Good for All" in An Open Letter from the Nation's Tech and Business Leaders. Making an argument worthy of a tantrum-throwing toddler, the execs exclaimed in a pull-quote, "We need talent, we need it now, and we simply cannot find enough."

Good to see Mark Zuckerberg's FWD.us PAC backers are singing the same tune: Tech Looks To Obama To Save Them From 'Just Sort of OK' US Workers.

prevent people who actually excel in the job from making significantly more than those who only coast by

The problem being of course that every programmer thinks he is the former category, but in reality only a handful actually are, by definition. Unions would thus benefit the vast majority of programmers.

Oh and speaking of "barriers to entry", if you're an American, you've benefitted from them throughout your career without realizing it. But don't worry, a tiny handful of billionaires are working to change that. Good luck proving you're the exceptional one who deserves to be paid well when the market is flooded with millions of minimum-wage foreigners who will do anything to get a green card, including working basically for free for years on end.