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<DIV><FONT size=2>Actually, it seems like a prudent move. If you don't
have the money or prospects, best not to try to spend it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>W.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=thansen@moscow.com href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">Tom Hansen</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> Monday, December 01, 2008 11:06
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Otter Orders
Additional 3-percent Cut</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>As corporate tax breaks in Idaho are ever on the increase, so
are budget <BR>cuts. Hey, Otter's got to make up for that lost tax
revenue somehow, <BR>right?<BR><BR>Don't blame me. I certainly didn't
vote for him.<BR><BR>>From the Moscow-Pullman Daily News
-<BR><BR>-------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Otter
orders additional 3-percent cut<BR>December 1, 2008, 10:36 am<BR><BR>Gov. C.L.
"Butch" Otter has ordered agencies to cut another three percent <BR>from their
budgets as state officials blame a sputtering economy for <BR>forcing them to
downgrade their tax revenue forecasts for the second time <BR>in three
months.<BR><BR>Otter's latest cuts will trim a total of $81 million from the
state budget.<BR><BR>In September, the Republican governor ordered a 1
percent, or $27 million, <BR>cut from the budget.<BR><BR>Collapsing
construction activity, plummeting real-estate sales and <BR>thousands of job
cuts at companies like Micron Technology Inc., the <BR>state's biggest private
employer, have forced Idaho agencies to tighten <BR>their belts.<BR><BR>In the
first round of cuts in September, most agencies were able to <BR>achieve the
savings with measures like not filling open
positions.<BR><BR>-------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Seeya
in the soup line, Moscow.<BR><BR>Tom Hansen<BR>Moscow, Idaho<BR> <BR>"For
a lapse Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist <BR>Unitarian
Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go <BR>to
work."<BR><BR><BR>---------------------------------------------<BR>This
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