[Vision2020] Walmart Gets Nod for Starting Work

Joe Campbell philosopher.joe at gmail.com
Thu Mar 12 08:42:40 PDT 2009


If I needed an abortion, that's where I'd go - to the nearest Catholic  
hospital!

Joe Campbell

On Mar 12, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Sunil Ramalingam <sunilramalingam at hotmail.com 
 > wrote:

> Gary,
>
> Can you identify any Catholic hospitals that have been forced to  
> perform abortions?  Do you know of any trends leading to this  
> outcome? Is there legislation forcing this?
>
> Sunil
>
>
>
> > From: jampot at roadrunner.com
> > To: garrettmc at verizon.net; vision2020 at moscow.com
> > Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:59:51 -0700
> > Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Walmart Gets Nod for Starting Work
> >
> > 1. My business is not located in Whitman county.
> >
> > 2. Predatory? All business competes with other business. This is  
> the nature
> > of the game. Will Idaho lose some tax revenue? Some, but probably  
> not as
> > much as you think. Those same tax dollars are lost when Idaho  
> residents go
> > to Spokane to shop or make purchases through the intertubes  
> because what
> > they seek is unavailable in Moscow.
> >
> > 3. Water. We've been over this one repeatedly. Whether it is  
> delivered by
> > the City of Moscow, pumped from private wells, or provided by the  
> City of
> > Pullman, it's all the same water. The folks who are working and  
> shopping at
> > the new mall would be using the same amount of water if they were  
> working in
> > Moscow, Pullman, Troy, or Colton. You don't uptake or download any  
> more just
> > because you're at the Hawkins development. I suspect that your  
> vegetable
> > production facility uses far more water than any individual  
> business will
> > and provides far fewer jobs. If the Hawkins property were to be  
> turned into
> > a truck farm the same argument you attempt to use applies.  
> Competition with
> > Moscow business. (you) No tax dollars for Idaho. Far higher water
> > consumption. Perhaps you would prefer the land lay fallow?
> >
> > 4. I am willing to accept any legal, legitimate business operation  
> located
> > on private property in Latah or Whitman Co. Pullman or Moscow,  
> miles away or
> > right next door to my shop. Period.
> >
> > 5. I think that my answer regarding your questions concerning FOCA  
> were to
> > the point. One third of all hospitals in America are Catholic. If  
> a doctor
> > or nurse hired on with one of these facilities they would have a  
> reasonable
> > expectation of working in an environment that did not promote a  
> culture of
> > death. Forcing institutions such as these to provide a service  
> that they did
> > not originally is to force every person employed there to do  
> something that
> > was not in their original job description. I am not talking about  
> the
> > mythical minority that might have hired on at an abortion mill  
> that suddenly
> > don't want to perform their job. In my example I'm talking about  
> thousands
> > of real health care professionals, in yours you talking about a  
> tiny handful
> > (if that) of hypothetical employees. I stand by my red herring  
> assertion.
> >
> > It seems that you are arguing in favor of an employers right to  
> can a
> > hypothetical fraction of his work force rather than the rights of  
> the very
> > real thousands of doctors and nurses who will be adversely  
> impacted by BHO's
> > very bad decision.
> >
> > g
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