<DIV>Sue,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>1st Point. I don't have a problem with Wal-Mart. So I don't have a problem with PERSI. I have a problem with people bashing Wal-Mart but taking money from them, regardless of age, they know better.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>2nd Point. If liberals stopped giving money to PERSI, they would stop investing in Wal-Mart. Pretty simple concept. If liberals stopped investing in PERSI for that reason, their handlers would for obvious economic reasons, would stop investing in Wal-Mart. It is called free market economics, and it works better than protests and lobbying. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>3rd Point. I am, for the proper treatment of the elderly, not for some people to have the right to do wrong simply because they reach a certain age, as you seem to be advocating. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>4th Point. I would not advocate for euthanasia as you are stating. That is called suicide, it is a selfish
act that goes against everything I believe. We are put here not by own will, and we leave this world not at our own will. <STRONG>However, what we do while we are here, and the actions we take are our own will. </STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV>5th Point. I have worked in a nursing homes, doing things for them nobody else would. So I don't need to prove myself to you or anyone else as to my dedication to their dignity. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>6th Point. I didn't vote for Bush and only for a few in Boise. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Best,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Donovan <BR><BR><B><I>Sue Hovey <suehovey@moscow.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16414" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Donovan,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1st point: Many, perhaps most, of those who receive money from PERSI are elderly--certainly I am.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2nd point: I am going to assume your self-touted compassion for the elderly extends only to those who aren't liberals receiving money from PERSI. Obviously our needs mean little to you. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>3rd point: I have 3 sources of income: PERSI, which constitutes about 65% of my retirement income; Social Security, which is about 30%, and some funding I receive through my work as an educational consultant. Yes, I gladly take my money from PERSI, quite a bit of which comes from my contributions over the 30 years I worked as a teacher. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>4th point: I appreciate your pointing out PERSI's investments and I will continue to lobby the PERSI investment board to back off its
investments which I feel to be an inappropriate use of teachers' retirement funds. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>5th point: Now why don't you do something productive for the elderly, such as I. I would suggest a significant effort on your part to lobby the president or our policy makers from Idaho (you are more likely to have elected them than I.) Maybe a policy change that would allow the government to negotiate with drug companies for Medicare recipients, or a law which would allow us to die with dignity at a time of our choice, should we be incurably ill. I just bet you have as much pull with those folks as I do with the PERSI Board, so hop to it, chum. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sue</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">-----
Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com">Donovan Arnold</A> </DIV> <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> Monday, April 09, 2007 11:39 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Moscow's Leading Liberals Own Stock in Wal-Mart</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>It is interesting to hear all the liberals in Moscow complain about how horrible Wal-Mart is, yet they gladly take their retirement funds from PERSI. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>PERSI invests in Wal-Mart. As well as Exxon Mobile and Bank of Illegals (AKA Bank of America). </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Look yourself:</DIV> <DIV><A
href="http://www.persi.idaho.gov/html/generalinformation/Board/Monthly_Report/PERSI_2D_Larg_Public_Holds.pdf">http://www.persi.idaho.gov/html/generalinformation/Board/Monthly_Report/PERSI_2D_Larg_Public_Holds.pdf</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I am curious to see how many of them back out of PERSI since it is profit made from sweatshops.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Best,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Donovan</DIV> <DIV> <HR SIZE=1> <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=49678/*http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL">Get your own web address.</A><BR>Have a HUGE year through <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=49678/*http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL">Yahoo! Small Business.</A> <DIV> <HR> <DIV></DIV>=======================================================<BR> List services made available by First Step Internet, <BR> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.
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