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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;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></p>
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color:navy'>Arnold</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;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></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;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 Nifty 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></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;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></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;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></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=2 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;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></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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 better
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></p>
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<div><st1:City u1:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on"><st1:City u9:st="on"><st1:place u9:st="on">
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Moscow</span></font></st1:place></st1:City></st1:place></st1:City></st1:place></st1:City>
residents do have three solid reasons to oppose a Super Wal-Mart center coming
into town:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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</u2:p><u8:p></u8:p></div>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>1)</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'><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></p>
<u8:p></u8:p></div>
<div style='margin-left:.25in'><u2:p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
</u2:p><u8:p></u8:p></div>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>2)</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'><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></p>
<u8:p></u8:p></div>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
</u2:p><u8:p></u8:p></div>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:-.25in'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>3)</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'><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 water 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></p>
<u8:p></u8:p></div>
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12.0pt'><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></span></font></p>
</st1:place></st1:City></st1:place></st1:City><u8:p></u8:p></div>
<div><st1:City u11:st="on"><st1:place u11:st="on"></st1:place></st1:City>
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<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></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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>
country. 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></st1:City>
and need to buy some American made clothing, go <br>
visit Charlie at Workman Outfitters on Vista Ave. Charlie is probably the <br>
greatest American I have ever met.<br>
<br>
Tim<br>
Buy Union, Support <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>!<br>
<br>
Revolution is not a word but an application; it is not war but peace; it <br>
does not weaken, but strengthens. Revolution does not cause separation; it <br>
ge! nerates togetherness.<br>
-John Africa, Strategic Revolution<br>
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