[Vision2020] Council Far From Anti-Growth

[Donovan Arnold]

Tom,
  
  I am not sure what argument you are trying to make. I am 110% behind providing as many high paying jobs in Moscow as possible.
  
  What I fail to understand in your argument, is how providing high  paying industrial or technological jobs in Moscow is hindered or  prohibited by simultaneously providing lower skilled, lower paying jobs  for students, and lower skilled workers in the community that do not  qualify for those jobs? Most communities have not experienced the  conflict you are trying to present. Perhaps you can clarify your  argument and point of how stopping a $8.25 checker job on Third Street  eliminates a technology job on Highway 8. 
  
 Providing college  students with jobs, even lower paying ones they can preform 15  hours  a week in their spare time, is much better than  unemployment and it provides extra spending money for that they spend  on the local downtown establishments. 
  
 You also seem to lose  track of the reality that Moscow, and most of Latah's economy is almost  entirely based on the University of Idaho, not what local  establishments do or do not do, or pay or do not pay. 
  
  
  Take Care,
  
  _DJA

Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:                        st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }                    Arnold stated:
     
    &#8220;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.&#8221;
     
    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&#8217;s leaders want to compete in tomorrow&#8217;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&#8217;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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