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Rage Against Offshoring Is Very Real
Most of America's unemployed seem to think their situation is due to companies sending jobs overseas.
FORTUNE
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
By David Kirkpatrick


To rephrase my opening sentence of last week: Seldom have so many been so angry at a writer they felt understood so little. My column on the offshoring of jobs (online last week [www.fortune.com/fortune/fastforward/0,15704,
588382,00.html] and in the current issue of FORTUNE) elicited the biggest outpouring of letters ever. While a reasonable number of readers commended my view that the trend may not be damaging to the economy, far more called me an idiot or worse. "