<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>I have to reply to your "</span><span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1322845127292145" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">99% against those morally bankrupt on Wall Street & in Big Business" turn of phrase. I feel compelled to note that it's not as simple as the 99% being taken advantage of by the evil 1%. For proof, I offer up the lady that thought it was a good idea to pepper spray other shoppers when she was trying to get a good deal on a video game console on Black Friday. There's enough blame for our current financial system in so many different areas that it can't be summed quite up this easily. Take the housing bubble, for instance. For every greedy banker that tried to saddle someone with a loan they couldn't
handle, there was someone on the other end of that transaction that had no business even trying to take out such a loan. Greedy bankers can't force loans on people unwilling to take on more debt than they can handle.</span></div><div><br><span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1322845127292145" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"></span></div><div><span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1322845127292145" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Don't get me wrong - there's lots of blame that can be foisted on people on Wall Street and in big business. I'm just saying that it's not the entirety of the problem.<br></span></div><div><br><span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1322845127292145" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"></span></div><div><span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1322845127292145"
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Paul<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Saundra Lund <v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 'Tom Hansen' <thansen@moscow.com>; 'Moscow Vision 2020' <vision2020@moscow.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> 'Penni Cyr' <cpenni@gmail.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, December 2, 2011 10:08 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] Say What?<br> </font> <br>
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--></style><div><div class="yiv190928513WordSection1"><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">I know I’m late adding my two cents & that some really great comments have already been made, but I’m absolutely stunned that at a time when virtually everyone with a brain understands that our children need more – not less – education, Nasty Newt apparently finds education so unimportant for children from economically challenged families that they can “afford” to lose academic time out of their school day to learn work habits.</span></div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">And, I’m even more stunned that at a time when some have incessantly whined about
the imaginary “class warfare” of the 99% against those morally bankrupt on Wall Street & in Big Business, those same folks aren’t complaining about Nasty Newt’s very real class warfare against the children from socio-economically disadvantaged families by advocating cutting their academic time. And, frankly, I don’t know what’s wrong with people who don’t find the grossly inaccurate stereotyping behind Nasty Newt’s “plan” absolutely disgusting.</span></div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">I also found myself wondering where Nasty Newt thinks the money to pay for his brilliant <snort> idea would come from, particularly at a time when all too many schools lack funding for basics like
textbooks, health & safety facilities repairs, etc.? I guess he thinks money must grow on trees to pay for his inane ideas.</span></div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Now, remind me again: which groups support class warfare???</span></div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Saundra Lund</span></div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tom Hansen<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 01, 2011 6:08 PM<br><b>To:</b> Moscow Vision 2020<br><b>Cc:</b> Penni Cyr<br><b>Subject:</b> [Vision2020] Say What?</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal"><span class="yiv190928513apple-style-span"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">"A very poor neighborhood. You have kids that who are under law required to go to school. They have no money. They have no habit of work. What if you paid them part-time in the afternoon to sit in the clerical office, and greet people when they came in? What if you paid them to work as an assistant librarian? </span></span></div><div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"><br><br></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal"><span class="yiv190928513apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">Let me get down to the janitor thing, and these letters are written that janitorial work is really hard and really dangerous and this and that. Fine. So what if they became assistant janitors and their job was to mop the floor and clean the bathroom. And you pay
them."</span></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"><br><br></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal"><span class="yiv190928513apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">- Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (December 1, 2011)</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"><br><br></span></div><div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal"><br><br></div></div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gsc9ElmJEs</div></div><div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal">-----------------------------</div><div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal"> </div><div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal">Seeya round town, Moscow.</div></div><div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div
class="yiv190928513MsoNormal">Tom Hansen</div></div><div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal">Moscow, Idaho</div></div><div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal">"If not us, who?</div></div><div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal">If not now, when?"</div></div><div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv190928513MsoNormal">- Unknown</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="on"><br>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet,<br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net" target="_blank">http://www.fsr.net</a><br> mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com"
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