[Vision2020] Sen Schroeder

[Donovan Arnold]

Garrett,

There is plenty of water and food here in Idaho. Idahoans need jobs. There are no jobs in Moscow. The Mall will only compete with the Palouse Empire Mall, which long ago abandoned the interests of local shop owners, business investors, and shoppers. 

Moscow residents are banned from having stores in the PEM. The PEM wants nothing to do with Moscow residents other than to take our money to Spokane. The Hawkins Mall will have local businesses from Moscow. It will employ Moscow residents. Who will turn pay taxes in Idaho and on property owned in Idaho. Idaho shoppers will get products here, rather than Spokane or Lewiston. 

Sure, the property tax on the Mall will go to Whitman. But that is small compared to what we will get in return, jobs and industry. 

Best Regards,

Donovan

--- On Tue, 2/17/09, Garrett Clevenger <garrettmc at verizon.net> wrote:
From: Garrett Clevenger <garrettmc at verizon.net>
Subject: [Vision2020]  Sen Schroeder
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 7:51 PM

As a farmer, it saddens me to know some think it's acceptable to use water
and farmland to build an unneeded $100 million mega-mall, one designed to
compete with Moscow. Thinking we'll be wasting water on the very symbol of
why America is losing power, instead of using it to grow food, makes me
understand why we just let the 21st century robber barons swindle our coffers
with the the greatest and most costly scam ever.

You may think it's ok to let these same people profit from a crucial
natural resource, but that does nothing to ensure water, and food, are
affordable, safe, and readily accessible to us.

Perhaps in 2020 people will love Hawkins, but I have my suspicion economies are
going to be radically changed, and priorities about what is important will lean
more toward appreciation of conservation. Limiting use of water for commercial
develop, to insure cheap water is available for everyone else, seems like wise
planning to me...

Garrett Clevenger



Donovan Arnold writes Sun Feb 15 20:58:12 PST 2009:


You know, you people that think we should cut off the spigot to our neighbors
and to other states that we depend upon for other reasons, does nothing, because
the Federal Courts will not allow the State of Idaho deny other states in the
Union water unless we can prove we would die if we shared it, or we are not
being paid a fair price. 
 
You also know that Native Americans still own a lot of the water you are
drinking in Idaho, and if Idaho can shut down Washington's water supply,
Natives can certainly shut down yours too. So be careful what powers you wish
local governments to have. 
 
Everyone has a right to water if it is available. When we make water less
affordable, it is really the farmers and the poor, who are mostly children,
elderly, and disabled, that suffer, not the asshole politicians that play games
with natural resources. You didn't do anything to bring or produce the water
in Idaho. So don't be telling others they are not entitled to have water. 
 
Best Regards,
 
Donovan


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