Tom,<br> <br> I am not sure what argument you are trying to make. I am 110% behind providing as many high paying jobs in Moscow as possible.<br> <br> What I fail to understand in your argument, is how providing high paying industrial or technological jobs in Moscow is hindered or prohibited by simultaneously providing lower skilled, lower paying jobs for students, and lower skilled workers in the community that do not qualify for those jobs? Most communities have not experienced the conflict you are trying to present. Perhaps you can clarify your argument and point of how stopping a $8.25 checker job on Third Street eliminates a technology job on Highway 8. <br> <br> Providing college students with jobs, even lower paying ones they can preform 15 hours a week in their spare time, is much better than unemployment and it provides extra spending money for that they spend on the local downtown establishments. <br> <br> You also seem to lose track of the r!
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that Moscow, and most of Latah's economy is almost entirely based on the University of Idaho, not what local establishments do or do not do, or pay or do not pay. <br> <font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><br> </span></font><br> Take Care,<br> <br> _DJA<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=us-ascii"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"> <o:SmartTagType
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{page:Section1;} --> </style> </o:SmartTagType></o:SmartTagType></o:SmartTagType></o:SmartTagType></o:SmartTagType><div class="Section1"> <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; font-family: 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;"> stated:<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;">“The majority of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City></st1:place>'s workforce consist of recent high school graduates with no experience. So obviou!
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majority of jobs need to be jobs that students can preform.”<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;">It seems that the only jobs expressed on this topic are those jobs that should be made available to students. BULL! Students are part-time residents. They come. Four or five years later, they leave.<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;">Do you know why they leave, <st!
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w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Arnold</st1:place></st1:City>? Because they want more out of life than that minimum wage job that helped pay their way through college. These students have graduated. They have degrees. They seek employment in a company that maintains a progressive pay chart with responsibilities to match.<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;">If <st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City> were to expand the technology park, currently located adjacent to the old Tidyman's, to a size comparable to the size of a <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Wal-Mart</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Super</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, can you imagine the career-oriented jobs that would entail? Students would also be able to intern at that technology park.<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;">Then, perhaps . . . just maybe the students will stay after they graduate, and work here in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>. That, Matt, is growth. Not the "hit-and-run" growth that Wal-Mart is famous for, but honest maturation of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City></st1:place>'s economic well-bring.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><s!
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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;">If tomorrow’s leaders want to compete in tomorrow’s market place, they must acquire the skills that make them marketable. This means college, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Arnold</st1:place></st1:City>. I realized this when I retired from the service with nothing more than a high school education.<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;">Then again, you can also make college a career. Can’t you, <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Arnold</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;">Seeya round town, <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: !
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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 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="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; 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> _____________________________________________________<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> http://www.fsr.net <br> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯<br></blockquote><br><p>
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