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60 Minutes' Scott Pelley Reports From An American Town In The Path Of An Economic Storm
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- This is the CHANGE We Can Count On. NAFTA Agreement set the foundation to take your manufacturing jobs & others overseas. Thank Clinton & the Lobbyists for that. China paid the Clintons & Congress well for granting them Favorite Trade Status. So Sad as it takes so long to realize this after the PR.
Posted by pepperwood2 at 08:34 AM : Jan 26, 2009
Clinton adopted 100 years of GOP Laissez-faire economics. Try an explain away Clintons adoption of your economic dogma. - Reply to this comment
- The depression has reached Wilmington, and other areas of Ohio, which 60 mins. failed to mention. The mesiah will not be able to stop the crumbling of America. He and his hacks are only concerned about bailing out their friends and those who will keep them in power for years to come. With rising gas prices, we are sinking further into an abyss that has no bottom.
Posted by JackP32
Wilmington is a solid Republican district that first went for the idiot savant that the GOP ran in the previous two elections and then for McCain this time around. The people of Wilmington should quit whining and wait for the trickle-down payoff to arrive, it should start happening any moment now. - Reply to this comment
- The depression has reached Wilmington, and other areas of Ohio, which 60 mins. failed to mention. The mesiah will not be able to stop the crumbling of America. He and his hacks are only concerned about bailing out their friends and those who will keep them in power for years to come. With rising gas prices, we are sinking further into an abyss that has no bottom.
Posted by JackP32 at 07:32 AM : Jan 26, 2009
Previous administrations were not judged for 100 days. 4 days in and we have those whose ideology is the reason we are in this Depression hoping for our president to fail.
The GOP loves their ideology more than this country. They would rather it burn from a fire they started, than participate in cooperation with others who do not share their views in trying to fix the problem. - Reply to this comment
- The democrats took over in 2007. This is what you get...
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Posted by mr_2258
mr_2258, you are a predictable dependable Moron. - Reply to this comment
- The Wilmington Air Park was the main hub of ABX/DHL. What the story did not tell was the other DHL employees who have lost their jobs. Each plane had a ground support crew that readied the plane for flight, each plane landed elsewhere in the US where service center employees unloaded the freight. Each service center had office workers, sorters and couriers who delivered the freight. Customers called the 1-800 number, those calls were answered by customer service agents. At one time there were 10 calls centers, all but 3 have been closed, with the remaining to close at the end of the week. Most of the customer service jobs were outsourced to a company in Omaha, its workers are stay-at-home employees who are paid by the minute, they make $5 or less per hour. In June of 2008, DHL stopped service to what was considered "remote" areas of the US. Those service centers were closed, the independent contracters (couriers) were out of business. Since then, numerous service centers have been closed. By the end of this week, over 90% of Airborne/DHL employees will have lost their jobs. The real number of unemployed will be closer to 45,000.
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- I have little sympathy for Ohio, They elected Bush, twice.
Moral of the story: Be careful of what you wish for. - Reply to this comment
- The depression has reached Wilmington, and other areas of Ohio, which 60 mins. failed to mention. The mesiah will not be able to stop the crumbling of America. He and his hacks are only concerned about bailing out their friends and those who will keep them in power for years to come. With rising gas prices, we are sinking further into an abyss that has no bottom.
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- While I can appreciate and empathize what is happening in Wilmington, I am also wondering why you haven''t come to Michigan. Unemployment is 10.6% now and has been the highest in the nation for at least the last three years.
Hundreds of thousands have lost jobs and can''t get another one, even with additional training and schooling. Many have also lost their homes.
I would think our economic tragedy would have been just as newsworthy as Wilmington''s. - Reply to this comment
- Economic Storm Batters Ohio Town
60 Minutes'''' Scott Pelley Reports From An American Town In The Path Of An Economic Storm
So what does Obama do? He sends US taxpayer dollars overseas to fund abortions.......
Posted by hillaryin016 at 12:49 AM : Jan 26, 2009
My God Child have you lost your mind? LOL He removed restrictions on Money that Congress sends, IF it sends it. Go play with the other kids and leave the adults to talk. We have a mountain of problems left to this Fine Young Leader so your childish remarks are NOT what we need at this point. - Reply to this comment
- I want to commend 60 minutes for presenting two moving stories: The Winter of our Hardship and No Peace Deal. Both are symbolic of the lack of concern of many humans for their fellow beings. The suffering and oppression they create, is of no interest to them. I hope our new President will lay down the law to the corrupters and robbers in our country who steal the dreams and lives of others for their own gains. The honest covering of the miserable conditions of Palestinians in the West Bank
for which the United States can take credit for by aiding and abetting the Israeli fanatics, is a blot on both countries.
Your interviewers, Scott Pelley and Bob Simon did a masterful job in bringing us these terrible stories.
I was unable to get to sleep - the faces of the victims you showed in both stories haunted me. - Reply to this comment
