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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Calibri>You are right, of course. The last thing
our country needs is congressmen who know how to meet a delivery date and a
payroll. I am sure we would do best to stick with brainless drones such as
Murray who at no point in theirs life have created anything of value. America
will surely be elevated from its current economic woes by fools who believe that
wealth and job creation is the exclusive domain of those in Washington. How
silly of me to think that a gentleman who has the ability to conceive, create,
and bring to market a useful product with no help from our simpering nanny state
might be able to bring that same increasingly novel approach to
governance.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Calibri>g</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=deco@moscow.com
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">Art Deco</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 10, 2011 8:43 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=Vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Moscow Vision 2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Aug. 10,2011 Moscow-Pullman Daily News:
Schweitzer said lowering theminimumwage is a good idea</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>There is little doubt that Schweitzer to this
point has been a very successful entrepreneur. And in doing so he has
treated his employees well. So far he has evaded a lot of serious
competition because of the the singular nature of his business and his adroit
management.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>It is not accurate to say that he does not
"whine." The <EM>DN</EM> article contain whines about regulation, for
example.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>I'd be the last to defend all regulations.
Some are stupid, ill-designed, and counterproductive. But there are
generally good reasons for well-designed regulations in may areas. What
these areas are and how they are to be regulated depends on knowledge and
values, the latter an area where consensus is often hard to forge.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>A mistake commonly made in some businesses is to
promote the best worker into a supervisory position. Often this does not
work. The skills needed to be an expert machinist, for example, are very
different from the skills needed to be an able supervisor.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>While Schweitzer is an excellent entrepreneur,
that set of skills is different from being an able legislator.
Government is much more complex than most medium sized companies, and
it deals within frameworks of complex organizations, though sometimes
corrupt, idiotic, and ineffective, never-the-less take a great deal of
understanding to even know where to start to make change, and know how to make
change against a tide of years of habit and resistance.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>Being the king of the company whose word is law
is different from being a cog in a legislative/political machine where one's
ideas and words carry much less weight.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>Further, being an effective business person
sometimes narrows perspective and makes understanding different aspects of
issues and values difficult.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>Schweitzer may make an able legislator. I
don't know. But his success as a business person is no guarantee that he
will. But perhaps if he set his sights on the state legislature first so
he can learn and can show what he can do, then Washington voters would
have a better feel for his political/legislative ability.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>w.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title="mailto:jampot@roadrunner.com CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="mailto:jampot@roadrunner.com">Gary Crabtree</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 10, 2011 6:55 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A
title="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com">Ted Moffett</A> ; <A
title="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Moscow Vision 2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Aug. 10,2011 Moscow-Pullman Daily News:
Schweitzer said lowering theminimum wage is a good idea</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Calibri>I'd love to see Mr. Schweitzer take a run
at Patty (the menace) Murray's senate seat in 2016. Washington has a desperate
need for a few clear thinking individuals who know how the real world actually
works. Someone who has created innovative products and jobs without having to
whine to the government for a handout. Accomplishments of which Murray couldn't
even conceive.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Calibri>g</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Calibri></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Calibri>P.S. "meters of sea level rise?" When, by
4012/4042? Nothing like a little sensationalism to try and rile the
monkeys</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com">Ted Moffett</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 10, 2011 2:39 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A
title="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Moscow Vision 2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Aug. 10, 2011 Moscow-Pullman Daily News:
Schweitzer said lowering the minimum wage is a good idea</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<H1><FONT size=2>Of course Schweitzer provides jobs and an economic boost to the
Palouse, and gives back to the community, as evidenced by the United Way
support: <A
title="http://www.moscowlatahuw.org/docs/annual%20report%202010final.pdf CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="http://www.moscowlatahuw.org/docs/annual%20report%202010final.pdf">http://www.moscowlatahuw.org/docs/annual%20report%202010final.pdf</A></FONT></H1>
<H1><FONT size=2>But lowering the minimum wage is a good idea? Since the
great recession an expanding percentage of the US work force is defined as
working poor ( <A
title="http://www.workingpoorfamilies.org/pdfs/policybrief-winter2011.pdf CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="http://www.workingpoorfamilies.org/pdfs/policybrief-winter2011.pdf">http://www.workingpoorfamilies.org/pdfs/policybrief-winter2011.pdf</A>
), and would lowering the minimum wage make this situation worse? Maybe he
was misquoted.</FONT></H1>
<DIV><STRONG>Also, Schweitzer comments that "you can't fool the laws of physics
even for an instant" regarding fuel economy for vehicles. Yet, in his
critical comments on the costs of the EPA regulation of CO2 emissions, does
he imply we should ignore the laws of physics regarding the radiative
forcing of human sourced atmospheric CO2 emissions raising Earth's temperature
into the range of "dangerous anthropogenic interference," to quote from a
Proceedings of of the National Academy of Sciences article I recommend
everyone read: </STRONG><A
href="http://www.pnas.org/content/106/49/20616.full"><STRONG
title="http://www.pnas.org/content/106/49/20616.full CTRL + Click to follow link">http://www.pnas.org/content/106/49/20616.full</STRONG></A><STRONG> August
31, 2009: "Reducing abrupt climate change risk using the Montreal Protocol
and other regulatory actions to complement cuts in CO<SUB>2</SUB> emissions" A
short quote from the article: The potential consequences associated with these
tipping points may be largely irreversible and unmanageable (</STRONG><A
id=xref-ref-10-1 class=xref-bibr
href="http://www.pnas.org/content/106/49/20616.full#ref-10"><STRONG>10</STRONG></A><STRONG>)
and include widespread loss of biodiversity, meters of sea level rise, and
famine, which could lead to political instability (</STRONG><A id=xref-ref-9-7
class=xref-bibr
href="http://www.pnas.org/content/106/49/20616.full#ref-9"><STRONG>9</STRONG></A><STRONG>,
</STRONG><A id=xref-ref-11-1 class=xref-bibr
href="http://www.pnas.org/content/106/49/20616.full#ref-11"><STRONG>11</STRONG></A><STRONG>).
In a worst-case scenario, climate change could produce runaway feedbacks, such
as methane release from permafrost (</STRONG><A id=xref-ref-12-1 class=xref-bibr
href="http://www.pnas.org/content/106/49/20616.full#ref-12"><STRONG
title="http://www.pnas.org/content/106/49/20616.full#ref-12 CTRL + Click to follow link">12</STRONG></A><STRONG>).
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<H1>Schweitzer: Too much regulation can cause harm</H1>
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<H1><A
href="http://seekingalpha.com/news-article/1623287-schweitzer-too-much-regulation-can-cause-harm"><FONT
title="http://seekingalpha.com/news-article/1623287-schweitzer-too-much-regulation-can-cause-harm CTRL + Click to follow link"
size=2>http://seekingalpha.com/news-article/1623287-schweitzer-too-much-regulation-can-cause-harm</FONT></A></H1></DIV>
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<DIV class=article_info_pos><SPAN id=page_position></SPAN><SPAN>Wed August 10,
2011 10:02 AM</SPAN> </DIV>
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<P>Aug. 10--If lawmakers back off unnecessary regulations, the economy could
take an upward turn, <SPAN class=person>Ed Schweitzer</SPAN> said Tuesday at a
<SPAN class=org>Pullman Chamber of Commerce</SPAN> luncheon.</P>
<P>However, he not only offered criticism of government rules, but also
exhortations to fellow businessmen to believe in America and invest in it, as he
is doing with major expansion of Pullman-based <SPAN class=org>Schweitzer
Engineering Laboratories</SPAN>.</P>
<P>"Duke Energy (<A href="http://seekingalpha.com/symbol/duk"><FONT
color=#024999>DUK</FONT></A>) reported that the carbon dioxide limits that the
<SPAN class=org>Environmental Protection Agency</SPAN> put into regulation is
going to cost them $2 billion to $5 billion dollars," Schweitzer said. "Just for
one utility of <SPAN class=location>the United States</SPAN> providing people
electricity. Who's going to pay that? Well, who here plugs something in?"</P>
<P>Schweitzer, founder and president of SEL, said regulations for some
gas-efficient cars can also make a negative impact.</P>
<P>"It sounds good to make cars that use less gas, but you can't fool the laws
of physics even for an instant, and you can only fool the laws of economics for
a short time," he said. "As you know we're pushing a ... 56-mile a gallon limit.
... There's estimates that that will kill 200,000 jobs and leave us with cars we
don't want."</P>
<P>An important step in fixing the economy, Schweitzer said, is inventing new
things, taking them to market and competing to serve customers. In addition, he
said, there should be an elimination of all the government activities that "just
plain don't work."</P>
<P>"Invent your future," he said. "Make it, do it, sell it, improve it ... and
once people stop looking at the capitol dome as the top of an ATM machine, then
we're going to get back on track."</P>
<P>Schweitzer said lowering the minimum wage is a good idea, as well as
encouraging construction of pending building permits at <SPAN
class=location>Pullman City Hall</SPAN>.</P>
<P>SEL itself is moving forward with both construction and production, he said.
New SEL facilities have been and are being constructed in efforts to expand
services. A facility in <SPAN class=location>Lewiston</SPAN> will be up and
running by Oct. 1 and a 90,000 square foot Solution Delivery Center being built
in Pullman will be finished by mid-November. In addition, a 68,500 square foot
SEL facility recently was constructed in <SPAN class=location>San Luis Potosi,
Mexico</SPAN>, for exporting equipment to countries all over the world.</P>
<P>"A few months ago we decided we were really going to step on the gas. And
why?" he asked. "We decided we're going to do it because we think the country's
going to get it right. We really believe in America."</P>
<P>So far, Schweitzer said, the <SPAN class=location>San Luis Potosi</SPAN>
facility has distributed to about 30 countries, and over time Pullman has
distributed to more than 140 countries around the world.</P>
<P>"SEL and other people are finding now is a good time to build, and this is
something we can do right here at home," he said. "We need the space, so we're
building, and right now construction costs are low. We're doing it at about 25
to 30 percent lower than last time we built something ... and it's a good time
to hire people -- folks want to work."</P>
<P>SEL employs about 2,500 people worldwide, the majority of them on the
Palouse.</P>
<P><SPAN class=person>Kelli Hadley</SPAN> can be reached at (208) 882-5561, ext.
234, or by email to <A
href="mailto:khadley@dnews.com">khadley@dnews.com</A>.</P>
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