[Vision2020] Budget cuts could slash $1B from vets health care

[Donovan Arnold]

Joe,
 
What's the logic in keeping Philosophy? 
 
Donovan Arnold
 

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 From: Joe Campbell <philosopher.joe at gmail.com>
To: Sue Hovey <suehovey at moscow.com> 
Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com 
Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2012 7:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Budget cuts could slash $1B from vets health care
 

Not just the military would appreciate you Sue! 

All of us in eduction -- especially higher ed -- are asked to do the same. Imagine the luck I'll have in raising money for Philosophy! Nonetheless, those are the cards with which we are dealt. I've always seen my challenge as trying to explain why Philosophy is relevant -- not that I've been successful at it yet. 

Things have not changed too much. What is significant is the thought that we might lose philosophy if the public doesn't see it as relevant. That we've worked ourselves to that very point is worrisome. What next? The arts? Still, no more worrisome than other recent threats to education. 

Best, Joe


On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Sue Hovey <suehovey at moscow.com> wrote:

My absolutely least favorite thing about being a teacher was raising all 
that money to buy transportation for kids to go to activities such as Debate and 
Knowledge Bowl, Future Problem Solving, etc.  I got to be an expert, and 
Moscow parents and school district patrons were very generous.  Perhaps the 
military could use my skills.  
>
>Sue H.  
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>From: keely emerinemix  
>Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 2:01 PM
>To: dickow at turbonet.com ; vision2020 at moscow.com  
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Budget cuts could slash $1B from vets 
health care 
> I spent most of the 1970s sporting a pin that said "Wouldn't it be 
a great day if schools had the money they needed and the Air Force had to hold a 
bake sale to buy a new bomber?"  A woman can dream, can't she?
>
>No, 
Paul -- The only answer isn't to cut spending.  Cutting waste, bloat, and 
fraud -- yes.  But vital human services are just that, vital, and are part 
of not just a social safety net, but a contract between taxpayers and the 
government to whom they pay those taxes.  To a large extent, infrastructure 
maintenance and additions are, too.  Cutting spending in areas and on 
projects left wallowing because of the eight years of horror that was the Bush 
administration -- eight years that took us from surplus to debt by waging two 
wars while slashing tax revenues -- is penny wise and pound foolish.  
Ronald Reagan, who raised taxes several times during his administration, also 
took the richest Americans from a 70 percent income tax to a level half 
that.  No one wants to go to 70 percent again, but today's pledge-signing 
GOP wants to give away the farm.  No reasonable person believes that the 
debt can be addressed without asking those who most  benefit both from the 
liberties preserved by those wars as well as from the tax policies currently in 
hand to pay a reasonable percentage of their income.  It seems beyond 
belief that the GOP also believes that overseas profits made by U.S. 
corporations should be off-limits as well.  I'd love to slash welfare 
programs and actually RAISE revenue -- that is, do away with policies that 
coddle the superwealthy and spend wisely the revenue that that attracts.  
But don't penalize veterans, students, the elderly, the sick, the unemployed and 
the already-struggling.  And don't "penalize" the rich -- just respect the 
needs of the citizenry by asking that they do what the rest of us have to.  
>
>Let's assume that good Americans ought to face taxation that's fair, 
proportional, reasonable and brings in revenue that's spent wisely, building our 
nation and not tearing down others.  That would seem to be neither a 
Democratic nor a Republican position -- just a solid, fair, strong and 
pro-American one.
>
>Keely
>www.keely-prevailingwinds.com
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>From: dickow at turbonet.com
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 
12:27:30 -0800
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Budget cuts could slash $1B from 
vets health care
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>Another 
solution is the take in more revenue to offset expenses. Since increased 
taxation seems to be a dirty word, how about car washes and bake sales? We have 
do it at the community level, in schools, etc, why not the Fed? Shouldn’t the 
government have a PayPal ‘Donate Now’ button on their website? 
>  
>Bob 
Dickow, troublemaker 
>  
>From:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On 
Behalf Of Paul Rumelhart
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><snip> 
>The 
simple fact is that we are spending more than we are taking in.  The 
simplest solution is to stop spending so much. 
>  
>Paul 
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