Fwd: US' jobless target Indian techies

--- Venkatakrishnan Narasimhan
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> From: "Venkatakrishnan Narasimhan"
> <[email protected]>
> To: yamanoor-/[email protected]
> Subject: US' jobless target Indian techies
> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:33:48 +0400
> 

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US' jobless target Indian techies
CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA

TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2004 12:01:41
AM ]

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WASHINGTON: The only good Indian engineer may be a
dead Indian engineer. That’s the kind of toxic
sentiment some American workers are beginning to
express amid an increasingly vituperative debate on
outsourcing . 

In an unnerving insight into the anger and turmoil
that is roiling the US job market, a columnist for
Fortune who backed free trade has revealed that in the
flood of hate mail he received, some American workers
were irate enough to speak about Indians being killed
over the issue of outsourcing . 

''If an enraged laid-off American engineer were to go
up to his Indian replacement, and shoot him dead, if I
were on the jury the verdict would be ‘NOT GUILTY’,''
one laid off tech worker, wrote to Fortune ’s David
Kirkpatrick. 

The worker, a computer engineer laid off from a
government agency in late 2002, said, ''I want to find
a political party or movement that will try to save
American jobs. I am ready to vote for the Communist
Party, the Nazi Party, or whatever it takes. The
system we have now is a disaster.'' 

While such sentiments might come from the extreme
fringe, Kirkpatrick says he is ''disturbed to see
barely concealed racism embedded in some angry replies
directed at Indian workers in particular.'' 

Some writers suggested Kirkpatrick’s job be outsourced
. 

  





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