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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Donovan Arnold</SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Andreas Schou <ophite@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com>; Art Deco <deco@moscow.com>; "Vision2020@moscow.com" <Vision2020@moscow.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Wednesday, September 21, 2011 8:06 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Vision2020] Some People Never Get it<BR></FONT><BR>We are paying negative interest on our debt right
now.<BR><BR>On Wed, <SPAN id=misspell-1 class=mark>Sep</SPAN> 21, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Donovan Arnold<BR><<A href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com" ymailto="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com">donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com</A>> wrote:<BR>> Yes Tom,<BR>><BR>> It will be far less humiliating for our grandchildren to have to borrow from<BR>> Mexico to pay the 400% interest on the pizza to pay back China for the money<BR>> we borrowed to buy the pizza rather than making the pizza at the White<BR>> House. Why spend a dollar when you can borrow two and spend three, right?<BR>><BR>> Donovan Arnold<BR>> From: Tom Hansen <<A href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</A>><BR>> To: Donovan Arnold <<A href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com" ymailto="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com">donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com</A>><BR>> Cc: Andreas Schou <<A
href="mailto:ophite@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:ophite@gmail.com">ophite@gmail.com</A>>; Art Deco <<A href="mailto:deco@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</A>>;<BR>> "<A href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</A>" <<A href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</A>><BR>> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:21 PM<BR>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Some People Never Get it<BR>><BR>> Yeah. I can see it now . . .<BR>> As the British royal family makes it's way down the reception line at the<BR>> White House (the president's home address) Blue Room, as Queen Elizabeth<BR>> approaches President Obama, the president leans forward and suggests, "Yo,<BR>> Ellie. Wanna go fifties on a Domino's large triple topper?"<BR>><BR>> <SPAN id=misspell-3 class=mark>Seeya</SPAN>
round town, Moscow.<BR>> Tom Hansen<BR>> Moscow, Idaho<BR>><BR>><BR>> On <SPAN id=misspell-4 class=mark>Sep</SPAN> 21, 2011, at 18:11, Donovan Arnold <<A href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com" ymailto="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com">donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com</A>><BR>> wrote:<BR>><BR>> Andreas,<BR>><BR>> Not sure I follow your numbers. However, while I do understand that the<BR>> government has to spend a lot of money to produce just a few units of<BR>> something that doesn't justify catered luncheons and events when in a budget<BR>> crisis. They can do like the rest of us and use space already available in<BR>> their own buildings for meetings and bag a lunch or do a potluck. There are<BR>> no attempts to be frugal here. This is privileged people living on the<BR>> taxpayers dime and wanting to remain privileged while many suffer and go<BR>> without jobs. It needs
to stop before this country is in a such a hole it<BR>> can never get out again.<BR>><BR>> PS, Hope you had a good birthday. : )<BR>><BR>> Donovan Arnold<BR>><BR>> From: Andreas Schou <<A href="mailto:ophite@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:ophite@gmail.com">ophite@gmail.com</A>><BR>> To: Art Deco <<A href="mailto:deco@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</A>><BR>> Cc: <A href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</A><BR>> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 3:00 PM<BR>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Some People Never Get it<BR>><BR>> In standard government accounting, administrative costs are spread over the<BR>> entire program cost. So if the government buys a nuclear reactor core and a<BR>> <SPAN id=misspell-6 class=mark>phillips</SPAN>-head screw and sends both to Baltimore at a cost of a million<BR>> dollars, the
spreadsheet will reflect that the Feds paid $10,500,000 for a<BR>> reactor core and $500,000.25 for a screw.<BR>> Every reporter in America should have this fact on their desk. But somehow<BR>> the media keeps getting rolled every time.<BR>> =======================================================<BR>> List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR>> serving the communities of the <SPAN id=misspell-7 class=mark>Palouse</SPAN> since 1994.<BR>> <A href="http://www.fsr.net/" target=_blank>http://www.fsr.net</A><BR>> <SPAN id=misspell-8 class=mark>mailto</SPAN>:<A href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</A><BR>> =======================================================<BR>><BR>> =======================================================<BR>> List services made available by First
Step Internet,<BR>> serving the communities of the <SPAN id=misspell-9 class=mark>Palouse</SPAN> since 1994.<BR>> <A href="http://www.fsr.net/" target=_blank>http://www.fsr.net</A><BR>> <SPAN id=misspell-10 class=mark>mailto</SPAN>:<A href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</A><BR>> =======================================================<BR>><BR>><BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>