<div id="RTEContent"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">We can always look forward to your comments being entertaining Hansin.<br> <br> <br> "Yes. I am interested in improving foreign economies." <br> <br> You are, but you are going to do the opposite actions that you know would create that outcome? Humm, interesting. <br> <br> <br> "But, my first priorities are at home." <br> <br> When we die, do you think the souls are divided up according to nationality Hansin? Do you think the belly of a fat kid longing for a third helping of ice cream is equal in need to the empty belly of a child in China or Bangladesh? Do you think the nationality, race, and/or place of birth of the fat belly should give it special privilege to third and fourth helpings before a starving child is given anything? It appears that is your position Hansin. I hope you can justify to your God your rationalizing of why the fat ki!
d gets a
fourth helping before the starving gets one helping because the fat kid was inside some imaginary borders.<br> <br> Nor could have it possibly have occurred to you that if just half the world's population consumed as much resources as half the population of the people in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region></st1:place> the Earth's ecological system would collapse inside of 100 years, Hansin. <br> <br> "Every product manufactured overseas and sold here in the Nifty Fifty (USA) amounts to lost revenue here."<br> <br> Wrong! Guess again. Wealth is not "finite" Hansin. Wealth is generated through a process called "work". You obviously do not understand that both a buyer and a seller can benefit from a financial transaction. In fact, most the time it does and it favors the buyer. You are also clearly unaware of terms like, global economy, "global investment fund" and foreign investment. Billions of US!
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are in foreign investments. Foreign nations cannot improve without also simultaneously improving the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> market, and the reverse is also true. If the world economy declines, so does the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>. <br> <br> "Every time we purchase a product manufactured here, it benefits that manufacturer and its employees, and keep that manufacturer in business that much longer,"<br> <br> You got it bass ackwards Hansin. We do not buy products to benefit the seller, we buy it to benefit the buyer, why else buy it? DUH! 100 workers work for 1000000 customers, not the other way around. I do not buy gas to help out Exxon and the Saudi families, I buy gas cuz I need it make my car move. I do not buy a jacket to help out employees at <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Columbia</st1:place></st1:City!
>, I buy
a jacket cuz I am cold. We are better off buying the product that we need and spending the savings on training the workers to school to learn a trade that is competitive in the world market. Using your logic, we should subsidize rotary phone manufactures to keep jobs instead investing in technology to make the microchips that go in future cell phones. Protectionism is bad form and policy and ONLY protects bad businesses and business practices, good ones do not need protection. Not to mention it makes other nations do the same to us. Two thirds of all business growth is in the foreign market. Tariffs block 2/3 of our growth to protect 1/3, that is a dumb idea, Herbert <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hoover</st1:place></st1:City> tried tariffs to soften the depression in 1930, it made it worse. Grover <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cleveland</st1:place></st1:City> tried it the 1890s and set off a recession. It was also tried in the1840s and set o!
ff a
recession that helped defeat Martin Van Buren. We tried it Hansin, it did not work.<br> <br> "which means food on the dinner tables of American families."<br> <br> Well Hansin, I think from the looks of you, me and the rest of this overweight glutton nation, we could stand to skip a few meals. Dontcha think?<br> <br> Take Care,<br> <br> Donovan J <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Arnold</st1:place></st1:City></span></div> <br> <br><b><i>Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <!--[if !mso]> <style> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} </style> <![endif]--><o:SmartTagType
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class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">If you are interested in keeping working conditions poor and inhuman in <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Honduras</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Mexico</st1:country-region>, and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Bangladesh</st1:country-region></st1:place>, you should buy as many American products as possible. If foreigners do not get our money, they cannot improve working conditions for the poor in those countries.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; fon!
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Arial; color: navy;">Arnold</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">. <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Arnold</st1:place></st1:City>. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Arnold</st1:City></st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Yes. I am interested in improving foreign economies. It would be great if <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Mexico</st1:place></st1:country-region> paid its labor force a living wage. But, my first priorities are at home. Every product manufactured overseas and sold here in the!
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Fifty (USA) amounts to lost revenue here. Every time we purchase a product manufactured here, it benefits that manufacturer and its employees, and keep that manufacturer in business that much longer, which means food on the dinner tables of American families.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">However, I do want to thank you for the new signature. I think I will call it <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Arnold</st1:place></st1:City> on Global Economies. Whatchat think? Catchy, huh?<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color:
navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Take care, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Moscow</span></font></st1:City><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">, <st1:State
w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State></span></font></st1:place><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div> <div><font color="navy" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;"> Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, a drink in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO. What a ride!'</span></font><o:p></o:p></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <hr tabindex="-1" align="center" s!
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width="100%"> </span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Donovan Arnold<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, November 22, 2005 10:54 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> TIM RIGSBY; vision2020@moscow.com<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Vision2020] BUY AMERICAN BUY WAL-MART</span></font><o:p></o:p></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div id="RTEContent"> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">I went to Wal-Mart today and bought a bunch of stuff. Items like food, cleaning supplies, and even pharmaceuticals. All of them, except the rice grown in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:country-region u1:st="on"><st1:country-region u2:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:country-region></st1:country-region>, was made in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region u1:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on"><st1:country-region u3:st="on"><st1:place u3:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:country-region>.<br> <br> If you are interested in keeping working conditions poor and inhuman in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:country-region u1:st="on"><st1:country-region u4:st="on">China</st1:country-region></st1:country-region></st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:country-region u1:st="on"><st1:country-region
u5:st="on">Honduras</st1:country-region></st1:country-region></st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:country-region u1:st="on"><st1:country-region u6:st="on">Mexico</st1:country-region></st1:country-region></st1:country-region>, and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region u1:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on"><st1:country-region u7:st="on"><st1:place u7:st="on">Bangladesh</st1:place></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:country-region>, you should buy as many American products as possible. If foreigners do not get our money, they cannot improve working conditions for the poor in those countries. Keeping profit margins at minimal levels insures foreign governments cannot force businesses in their country to invest in better conditions for the workers. This of course will shut down all those slave labor factories where the workers will then be free to get better higher paying jobs with bette!
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working conditions waiting for them elsewhere. Even if it does not shut them down, the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> needs the money more anyway. <o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <u8:p></u8:p></div> <div><u2:p> </u2:p><div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <u8:p></u8:p></div> <div><st1:City u1:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on"><st1:City u9:st="on"><st1:place u9:st="on"> </st1:place></st1:City></st1:place></st1:City><div class="MsoNormal"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Moscow</span></font></st1:place></st1:City> residents do have three solid reasons to oppose a Super Wal-Mart center coming into town:<o:p></o:p></div> <u8:p></u8:p></div> <div><u2:p> </u2:p><div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <u8:p></u8:p></div> <div style="margin-left: 0.5in;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">1)</span></font><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 7pt;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></font>The Super Wal-Mart will have a grocery store. Those groceries will be made by the slave labor of US farmers.<o:p></o:p></div> <u8:p></u8:p></div> <div style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><u2:p> </u2:p><div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <u8:p></u8:p></div> <div style="margin-left: 0.5in;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">2)</span></font><font size="1"><span style="fon!
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7pt;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></font>Will have an oil, lube, and fill-up station. This will drive the price of car service an! d gas down. But at what cost? The cost of bigger profits for oil companies? That is not a cost I am willing to accept.<o:p></o:p></div> <u8:p></u8:p></div> <div><u2:p> </u2:p><div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <u8:p></u8:p></div> <div style="margin-left: 0.5in;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">3)</span></font><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 7pt;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></font>It makes us look like we are real liberals that care about the community.<br> <br> <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Joan Opyr</st1:PersonName> also brought up a great point. Us poor people should not buy a $20 pair of jeans if that is all we can afford. We should instead buy a $80 pair of designer jeans that will last five times as long, which is actually cheaper in the long run, especially if we have kids that grow out them in six months. Also, instead of buying a used Hyundai for $5,000 they should buy a new Chevy Tahoe for $25,000 because it will last six times as long. And us poor stupid ! mobile home and apartment dwellers, we should buy a 5 bedroom house for $300,000 because it will last way longer and increase in value as time goes on, and we must not forget the indoor pool and sauna. <br> <br> On my way home driving my Ford, I got stuck behind a SUV with an environmental sticker on the back bumper as I drove past houses of environmentalists with every light on in their two or three person households of 2,500+ sq ft built on land with huge !
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hungry yards originally acquired cheaply through the slaughter and suppression of millions of native peoples. <br> <br> So for those of you that hate Wal-Mart for not doing something about the Chinese government not enforcing Chinese labor laws in China, as you sip on your double caramel mocha latte with whipped cream and sprinkles for $6 out of a cup made in China, rather than donating the money to the factories in Bangladesh for improved working conditions, made with beans grown by the slave l! abor of millions of Latin Americans, this gives you something to think about. If you want to look at preach to someone profiteering off the labor, health and well being of millions of others you can pick up a full length mirror for $9.99 at Wal-Mart. <o:p></o:p></div> <u8:p></u8:p></div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br> Take Care,<br> <br> Donovan J <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City u1:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on"><st1:City u10:st="on"><st1:place u10:st="on">Arnold</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></st1:place></st1:City></st1:place></st1:City></span></font></div> <u8:p></u8:p></div> <div><st1:City u11:st="on"><st1:place u11:st="on"></st1:place></st1:City> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <b><i><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">TIM RIGSBY <tim.rigsby@hotmail.com></span></i></b> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Buying products made in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region> is a great way to keep the money in our <br> co!
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But buying products made in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Idaho</st1:place></st1:State> is an even better way to support <br> our local economies. I do as much <st1:State w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State> shopping as I can but also try and <br> buy as much from Made in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region> companies as well. Carhart is a great example <br> of an excellent product that is made in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>. New Balance shoes also are, <br> sometimes, made in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>. But with New Balance, you need to be aware of <br> the ones made in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:place></st1:country-region>, they are cheaper and not as good.<br> <br> If anyone is ever in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Boise</st1:place></s!
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