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WOW REPORTS (8/24-8/28) | 08/24/2009 11:20 am

wOw Reports: What News Matters to You – And Why?

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Lady Gator
deber b…and if anyone believes "you will be able to keep your present Health Care"  - I find a great deal of humor in that remark!
By Lady Gator on 08/26/2009 7:05 pm
deber B
The American people, both democrats and republicans, are backing away from the "hope and change" wagon, Lady Gator.   They don’t trust Obama and they don’t trust the Ivy League mentality who has, so far, done nothing but break our country financially.   The "seniors" in our country are smart and savvy people.   They’ve been through alot and they’ve seen alot and they are no longer fooled by a Barack Obama and his band of radical thieves.    The "seniors" will be the ones instrumental in taking back our country and bringing this  charlatan administration to their knees.   78 million Americans are baby boomers.  I guess you could say that "there’s safety in numbers."    And the seniors are extremely influential on their younger family members.  
By deber B on 08/26/2009 7:38 pm
Didi Lorillard
I want to hear more news about Health Care.
By Didi Lorillard on 08/25/2009 8:43 am
phyllis Doyle Pepe
Didi: the New York Times online has an ongoing health care reform information  called, "Prescriptions" on their health page. It is non-biased and informative.
By phyllis Doyle Pepe on 08/25/2009 9:04 am
deber B

 Didi, here’s something you might want to read:

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/26/obamacare-for-illegal-aliens-revisited/

By deber B on 08/26/2009 4:36 pm
Didi Lorillard
Thank you, Phyllis, that’s great news.  I’ll follow it.  That’s all we’re talking about these days.  There is so much misinformation out there that I need to be better informed.  Thanks again.
By Didi Lorillard on 08/25/2009 9:23 am
phyllis Doyle Pepe
I have been watching these Town Hall Meetings on CSpan. I am taken aback by the misinformation that many of these people have and even when corrected by their congress person they insist on repeating it. There seem to be very few that stand up and speak for this reform and/or the public option, but when they do they get much applause from those that aren’t, sadly, speaking up. There anger is palpable and their main mantra is mistrust of government. Last night watched a town hall meeting in North Carolina’s 10th district with a Patrick McHenry as their Representative. This young man, looking like Karl Rove’s son, (actually Rove gave him a job in the Bush administration) not only gave out incorrect information, but when an irate woman said she was furious that this health bill was going to electronically survey her bank balance and everything else that was personal, and by, god, she wasn’t going to stand for it. Mr. McHenry’s response was: "You get what you vote for." I was so appalled by his performance I had to look him up and what a trove of juicy tidbits. This is a scary little man who refuses to have Colbert interview him–– afraid, I suppose, of revealing what a scary little man he actually is.
By phyllis Doyle Pepe on 08/25/2009 10:03 am
phyllis Doyle Pepe
Correction: "Their" anger…
By phyllis Doyle Pepe on 08/25/2009 10:12 am
F P
Phyllis:  never ever underestimate the gullibility of a portion of the American public—time and again this happens and the guns and pitchfork brigade are once again in high dudgeon over something they heard on Fox"news" which usually has been selectively edited for content and which contains misrepresentation, misinformation and outright lies. It’s the same old song and dance. And the unethical knuckle-draggers in the public eye, be they from the press or the pols, only heighten the absurdity to its fullest extent and get their names in what passes for "news" these days..
By F P on 08/25/2009 1:03 pm
phyllis Doyle Pepe
You are right, Frank, never underestimate the gullibility, but I never stop being flummoxed by it. Here’s an example of news that should have been NEWS, but never got off the ground in the press. Ryan Grim of the Huffington Post covers Congress and during the spring he closely covered the battle to rein in the banking, credit card, and mortgage industries. Able to post several times a day, Grim can track the proceedings with a thoroughness most newspaper reporters would envy. In an article about the banking lobby’s efforts to derail a bill designed to help prevent foreclosures, Grim recorded Senator Dick Durbin’s anguished observation that "the banks––hard to believe in a time when we’re facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created––are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place." Coming from the majority whip of the Senate, Durbin’s outburst seemed a striking acknowledgment of the banking industry’s continued grip on Congress, yet no major paper picked it up. Frank Rich mentioned it six weeks later. Arianna Huffington, sensing its importance, ran with it with a snazzy title: "WHY ARE BANKERS STILL BEING TREATED AS BELTWAY ROYALTY?"  And here’s  a little tidbit by Marcy Wheeler, she of the Valerie Plame coverage and torture memos fame: "There’s a lot of good, original work in the blogosphere. [she goes on to praise some journalists]…What disturbs bloggers are those journalists who reside in "the Village"––shorthand for the compliant, unquestioning, conventional wisdom that comes out of Washington. It’s the world of the Peggy Noonans and David Broders, who are interested only in the horserace or in maintaining the status quo they’re part of."  We may have liked what old Peggy said about Palin––well, some us, perhaps, but  I take issue with almost everything she has to say in her creamy-I’ve-got-all -the-answers- voice.  
By phyllis Doyle Pepe on 08/25/2009 2:50 pm
Karen R

The front page of today’s New York Times print edition has this article about Chinese solar panel dumping in the US market.

WHY is this tolerated?? WHY does the US perpetually let domestically based companies be undercut this way??

Chinese companies have already played a leading role in pushing down the price of solar panels by almost half over the last year. Shi Zhengrong, the chief executive and founder of China’s biggest solar panel manufacturer, Suntech Power Holdings, said in an interview here that Suntech, to build market share, is selling solar panels on the American market for less than the cost of the materials, assembly and shipping.

Backed by lavish government support, the Chinese are preparing to build plants to assemble their products in the United States to bypass protectionist legislation. As Japanese automakers did decades ago, Chinese solar companies are encouraging their United States executives to join industry trade groups to tamp down anti-Chinese sentiment before it takes root.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/business/energy-environment/25solar.html?ref=business

By Karen R on 08/25/2009 1:08 pm
F P
Why? Why do US companies out-source to asia continually?  Frankly because their profits soar. It’s cheap to use foreign labor—just ask Meg Whitman, California governor wannabee, who as the head of Keds and Stride-right, used cheap Asian labor to further her fortune and didn’t give a hoot for the health of those foreign worker—this is documented by a reporter who was with her on a tour of her company’s plants in Asia. Many people say: Buy American.  Fine and good but remember that many of the part in the appliances, cars, etc., that we buy are manufactured in other countries for a helluva lot cheaper than American workers can produce. 
By F P on 08/25/2009 1:27 pm
Karen R
THIS CASE isn’t one of lower costs, it’s one of Chinese company intentionally selling AT A LOSS and WITH IT’S GOVERNMENT’S FINANCIAL BACKING in the US market in order to undercut competition. That’s illegal under trade rules!!
By Karen R on 08/25/2009 1:43 pm
F P
No, it’s lower costs for our business men and it’s good business practice.  Period. Undercutting the competition is standard: trade rules or no trade rules.  And it’s been going on for quite a few decades. 
By F P on 08/25/2009 2:01 pm
Karen R
traitors, not traders
By Karen R on 08/25/2009 2:17 pm