[Vision2020] Council Far From Anti-Growth

[Tom Hansen]

Arnold stated:

 

"The majority of the Moscow's workforce consist of recent high school
graduates with no experience. So obviously, the majority of jobs need to be
jobs that students can preform."

 

It seems that the only jobs expressed on this topic are those jobs that
should be made available to students.  BULL!  Students are part-time
residents.  They come.  Four or five years later, they leave.

 

Do you know why they leave, Arnold?  Because they want more out of life than
that minimum wage job that helped pay their way through college.  These
students have graduated.  They have degrees.  They seek employment in a
company that maintains a progressive pay chart with responsibilities to
match.

 

If Moscow were to expand the technology park, currently located adjacent to
the old Tidyman's, to a size comparable to the size of a Wal-Mart Super
Center, can you imagine the career-oriented jobs that would entail?
Students would also be able to intern at that technology park.

 

Then, perhaps . . . just maybe the students will stay after they graduate,
and work here in Moscow.  That, Matt, is growth.  Not the "hit-and-run"
growth that Wal-Mart is famous for, but honest maturation of Moscow's
economic well-bring.

 

If tomorrow's leaders want to compete in tomorrow's market place, they must
acquire the skills that make them marketable.  This means college, Arnold.
I realized this when I retired from the service with nothing more than a
high school education.

 

Then again, you can also make college a career.  Can't you, Arnold?

 

Seeya round town, Moscow.

 

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

 

 

"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving
safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
sideways, chocolate in one hand, a drink in the other, body thoroughly used
up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO. What a ride!'"

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