Speaking from personal experience, NPR will read your comments on the air if you're eloquent or interesting enough. I would encourage everyone here to contact NPR with your comments regarding the story. Keep them short, sweet, but detailed enough to be read on the air. Talk in broad strokes and throw in the buzzwords like "global competitiveness."
The program is called the Morning Edition, and below is the link to the comments page: http://www.npr.org/contact/ Also, here's the link to the actual story. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101689522 You will notice that below the story are text comments, where you can also express your opinions (please do!) and make the comments much longer than those destined for the on-air consumption. Remek
