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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>No matter how you try to label it or make it a
reasonable subject if NSA goes anyone new in that building will cause a
parking problem. It is an old problem and it won't go away unless we tear down
the building...or level the 1912 building!</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=starbliss@gmail.com href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com">Ted Moffett</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 06, 2006 4:47
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] "Liberals" Slammed
For Pro-Business CBD Stance?</DIV>
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<DIV>All:</DIV>
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<DIV>I find it odd in the extreme that the decision to maintain the debate
about the business focus of the CBD by the Moscow City Council and Mayor
Nancy Cheney, in the resent decision to take more time to
consider the granting of a CUP to NSA, has been labeled "liberal" and
"leftist" by some in local media. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Are not "leftists" and "liberals" those who take a more
anti-business stance regarding how government regulation impacts the so called
"free market," than "right wingers" and "conservatives?" </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>If NSA could be replaced in the CBD by a free market profit making
capitalist business (NSA could simply move outside the CBD), why is this not
to the liking of those free market capitalist advocates (those who often are
called conservatives or right wingers), who ostensibly seek to promote the
inherent value of such institutions in our society? </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>It seems in this case that the so called liberals are championing
capitalism in their critical view of NSA's activity in the CBD, while the so
called conservatives are actually taking a stance in favor of a non-profit
institution, whose goals are ostensibly not those of making a buck and getting
rich offering goods or services. Indeed, NSA is above this sort of
crass capitalism, is it not? Or am I wrong? I might actually
respect NSA in this regard, with some serious qualifications, if indeed
they serve higher goals than making a killing worshiping the almighty
dollar. But business is business, and worshiping the almighty dollar is
what the CBD is ostensibly about, I assume. Again, am I wrong?
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<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Are those who defend NSA "socialists," if they defend NSA against the
pure goals of capitalism that the CBD might be considered to embody?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The simple minded labeling of those who oppose NSA's presence in the CBD
as "liberals" or "leftists" reflects the common practice of
utilizing a polarizing linear sort of thinking in political/economic
thought, that does a disservice to a detailed critical political analysis that
recognizes the full complexity of political/economic ideology, ideology that
often does not fit the Procrustean bed that demands political opinions must be
either "left" or "right." </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>This is reflected more broadly in the current muddle headed nonsense
about President Bush being a "conservative," while he has recklessly spent
half a trillion dollars on a foolish war in Iraq with little chance of
success. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The war in Iraq strikes me as a classic wasteful liberal boondoggle of
the most extreme sort!</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Promoting NSAs presence in the CBD also could be deconstructed
as reflective of a religious oriented liberal agenda.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Ted Moffett</DIV>
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