[Vision2020] Say What?

[Jay Borden]

Indeed…

 

I grew up in Nebraska… where every kid knows the process of “detassling corn”…

 

When I was 13, I spent the summer shucking and detassling corn … as did a whole host of other kids.  

 

The next summer, I knew I didn’t want to do that again… so I asked the local farmers if they wanted their barns re-painted.  For the next two summers, I painted barns for uber-cheap over the summer… making more than I would have detassling corn, but keeping the price low enough so that the farmers couldn’t refuse the good deal… and made enough money by the next summer to purchase my first car and pay for all of my insurance (which was the condition my parents set forth for owning the car).

 

If I can do that, I’m sure some other kids can handle working in the library or mopping a floor.

 

 

Jay

 

 

 

 

 

From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of Tom Hansen
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 8:54 PM
To: Gary Crabtree
Cc: Moscow Vision 2020; Penni Cyr
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Say What?

 

To hell with child labor laws, right?

Seeya round town, Moscow.

 

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

 

"If not us, who?

If not now, when?"

 

- Unknown


On Dec 1, 2011, at 7:51 PM, "Gary Crabtree" <jampot at roadrunner.com> wrote:

	Sounds as though the man is putting forward the radical conservative concept of "the part time, after school job." What a heartless bastard.

	 

	g

	 

	From: Tom Hansen <mailto:thansen at moscow.com>  

	Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 6:07 PM

	To: Moscow Vision 2020 <mailto:vision2020 at moscow.com>  

	Cc: Penni Cyr <mailto:cpenni at gmail.com>  

	Subject: [Vision2020] Say What?

	 

	"A very poor neighborhood. You have kids that who are under law required to go to school. They have no money. They have no habit of work. What if you paid them part-time in the afternoon to sit in the clerical office, and greet people when they came in? What if you paid them to work as an assistant librarian?  

	
	
	

	Let me get down to the janitor thing, and these letters are written that janitorial work is really hard and really dangerous and this and that.  Fine.  So what if they became assistant janitors and their job was to mop the floor and clean the bathroom. And you pay them."

	
	
	

	- Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (December 1, 2011)
	
	

	
	
	

	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gsc9ElmJEs

	 

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	Seeya round town, Moscow.

	 

	Tom Hansen

	Moscow, Idaho

	 

	"If not us, who?

	If not now, when?"

	 

	- Unknown

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