[Vision2020] Something to mull over. . .

[Matt Decker]

Count me in for a support the troops rally.

M

> To: gussie443 at hotmail.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
> From: thansen at moscow.com
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:24:55 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Something to mull over. . .
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> A very thought-provoking commentary, Ellen.
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> Thanks for emphasizing the daily financial cost of the Iraqi war in terms 
> of what we must do without domestically to support a war that has yet to 
> prove anything.
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> How about it, Viz?
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> We held an anti-war rally in 2007 . . .
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> http://moscowcares.com/AntiWarRallies/Rally2007.htm
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> We held an anti-war rally in 2008 . . .
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> http://moscowcares.com/AntiWarRallies/Rally2008.htm
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> Let's not give up hope so soon.
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> Let's organize.  If anybody is interested in conducting an anti-war rally, 
> please contact me off-list.  Fritz?
> 
> Pro patria,
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
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> > For the last six months we have been hammered by the media about
> "bailouts">  and "stimulus packages" in amounts that are hard for the 
> average person
> to>  even comprehend.  I don't even know how many zeros it takes to write 
> out
> s> ome of the figures that are being tossed about.
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> > Every day the news is grim with tales of more layoffs, bank failures,
> p> eople losing their savings and their homes.  CEO's beg Uncle Sam (aka 
> you
> a> nd me, fellow taxpayer) for cash to stay afloat and then squander a
> chunk>  relaxing at a spa before getting down to business.
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> > And through it all, the one thing that hasn't been really looked at
> close> ly or even discussed as far as I can tell, is the cost of the Iraq 
> war.
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> > What is it now, anyway?  Is it still estimated at $720 million per day?
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> > Last year I remember the signs at the Peace Rally in Friendship Square. .
> >  their message knocked my socks off because they broke the cost down 
> into
> e> veryday terms I could grasp.
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> > Now remember fellow taxpayer. . . this is YOUR MONEY!  So, I ask you. .
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> > How would you spend $720 million per day?  How much bang for your buck? 
> Ho> w about. . . . . 
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> > *  84 new elementary schools across the United States.
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> > *  12,478 elementary school teachers.
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> > *  95,364 Head Start places for children.
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> > *  1,153,846 free school lunches.
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> > *  34,904 four year university scholarships.
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> > *  163,525 people with health care.
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> > *  423,529 children with health care.
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> > *  6,482 families with homes.
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> > *  1,274,336 homes with renewable electricity.
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> > Wow!  Now there's a "stimulus package" I can comprehend!  Every day, 84
> n> ew construction crews get to work building schools. . . . that alone 
> would
> > create a few jobs around the country.
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> > Just something to mull over.
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> > Ellen A. Roskovich  
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