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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>Rose,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>Thank you for your comments. It's hard to
know where to start without upsetting everyone.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>I think most of us would agree that individuals
and the entire country could benefit from vastly improved work ethics at all age
levels except the very elderly of the population. A timely OP/ED piece on
this matter appeared today [see below]. But it is not just some of
the poor that lack healthy work ethics: One example: Observe the City of
Moscow's outside public works employees -- could they work any
slower?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>As you point out, the object of using work
experience to build/improve work ethic is to inspire, not to
inhibit/degrade aspirations to career goals, but to promulgate a
healthy attitude towards working effectively and at a reasonable pace.
There is nothing wrong with hard work, including cleaning toilets, something I
did as a service station attendant when I was 12 years old. But, there are
many other jobs that could be done, and to suggest limiting jobs for poor or any
other students to the shit jobs is counterproductive and
degrading.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>Increasing work ethic means making working a
positive experience. That is not an easy task. It means rewarding
work well done and correcting mistakes and sloth in a manner that does not
degrade or discourage the individual -- skills not universally found among
management/supervision.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>Newt's idea is certainly not a new one.
Programs with these goals have been around a long time; they grew during The
Great Society era. Such programs have met with various levels of success
from almost none to almost spectacular. When I was the Boundary County
Planning and Zoning Coordinator, I had two young people assigned to me for a
summer in such a program. I think we all benefited.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>I believe the improvement of work ethic
nationally is a very important goal; it is worth spending tax dollars on well
designed programs to achieve this. The problem is to get well designed
programs out of an inept, private agenda laden congress.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>Saundra brings up an important point: Where
is the money to come from to fund these jobs? In the current
legislative/political mood, we won't even fund treatment for seriously mentally
ill veterans returning from Iran and Afghanistan who are a threat to themselves
and to the community. Or is Newt suggesting that these student jobs
be not be recompensed, but the reward is only the privilege of doing the
work? Get real!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>One should not discourage the expression of ideas
that are proposals to solve problems, but one would hope that those ideas from
president wanna-bes would be much better thought out, and not reflect prejudices
and half-truths about the poor or anyone else, nor about current political
reality.</FONT></DIV>
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<H1><NYT_HEADLINE version="1.0" type=" ">The Spirit of
Enterprise</NYT_HEADLINE></H1><NYT_BYLINE>
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<P>Why are nations like Germany and the U.S. rich? It’s not primarily because
they possess natural resources — many nations have those. It’s primarily because
of habits, values and social capital. </P>
<P>It’s because many people in these countries, as <A
href="http://www.aei.org/article/society-and-culture/free-enterprise/fairness-and-the-occupy-movement/">Arthur
Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute has noted</A>, believe in a simple
moral formula: effort should lead to reward as often as possible. </P>
<P>People who work hard and play by the rules should have a fair shot at
prosperity. Money should go to people on the basis of merit and enterprise.
Self-control should be rewarded while laziness and self-indulgence should not.
Community institutions should nurture responsibility and fairness. </P>
<P>This ethos is not an immutable genetic property, which can blithely be taken
for granted. It’s a precious social construct, which can be undermined and
degraded. </P>
<P>Right now, this ethos is being undermined from all directions. People see
lobbyists diverting money on the basis of connections; they see traders making
millions off of short-term manipulations; they see governments stealing money
from future generations to reward current voters. </P>
<P>The result is a crisis of legitimacy. The game is rigged. Social trust
shrivels. Effort is no longer worth it. The prosperity machine winds down. </P>
<P>Yet the assault on these values continues, especially in Europe. </P>
<P>Over the past few decades, several European nations, like Germany and the
Netherlands, have played by the rules and practiced good governance. They have
lived within their means, undertaken painful reforms, enhanced their
competitiveness and reinforced good values. Now they are being brutally
browbeaten for not wanting to bail out nations like Greece, Italy and Spain,
which did not do these things, which instead borrowed huge amounts of money that
they are choosing not to repay. </P>
<P>The estimated costs of these bailouts vary enormously and may end up being
greater than the cost of German reparations after World War I. Germans are being
browbeaten for not wanting to bail out Greece, where even today many people are
still not willing to pay their taxes. They are being browbeaten for not wanting
to bail out Italy, where future growth prospects are uncertain. </P>
<P>They are being asked to bail out nations with vast public sectors and
horrible demographics. They are being asked to paper over fundamental economic
problems with a mountain of currency. </P>
<P>It’s true that Germans benefited enormously from the euro zone and the
southern European bubble, and that German and French banks are far from
blameless. It’s true that the consequences for the world would be calamitous if
the euro zone cracked up. It’s true that, in a crisis, you do things you
wouldn’t otherwise do; you do things that violate your everyday values. </P>
<P>But our sympathy should be with the German people. They are not behaving
selfishly by insisting on structural reforms in exchange for bailouts. They are
not imprisoned by some rigid ideology. They are not besotted with some
semi-senile Weimar superstition about rampant inflation. They are defending the
values, habits and social contract upon which the entire prosperity of the West
is based. </P>
<P>The scariest thing is that many of the people browbeating the Germans seem to
have very little commitment to the effort-reward formula that undergirds
capitalism. On the one hand, there are the technicians who are oblivious to
values. For them anything that can’t be counted and modeled is a primitive
irrelevancy. On the other hand, there are people who see the European crisis
through the prism of some cosmic class war. What matters is not how people
conduct themselves, but whether they are a have or a have-not. The burden of
proof is against the haves. The benefit of the doubt is with the have-nots. Any
resistance to redistribution is greeted with outrage. </P>
<P>The real lesson from financial crises is that, at the pit of the crisis, you
do what you have to do. You bail out the banks. You bail out the weak European
governments. But, at the same time, you lock in policies that reinforce the
fundamental link between effort and reward. And, as soon as the crisis passes,
you move to repair the legitimacy of the system. </P>
<P>That didn’t happen after the American financial crisis of 2008. The people
who caused the crisis were never held responsible. There never was an exit
strategy to unwind the gigantic debt buildup. The structural problems plaguing
the economy remain unaddressed. As a result, the United States suffers from a
horrible crisis of trust that is slowing growth, restricting government action
and sending our politics off in strange directions. </P>
<P>Europe’s challenge is not only to avert a financial meltdown but to do it in
a way that doesn’t poison the seedbed of prosperity. Which values will be
rewarded and reinforced? Will it be effort, productivity and self-discipline? Or
will it be bad governance, now and forever? </P><NYT_CORRECTION_BOTTOM>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=donaldrose@cpcinternet.com
href="mailto:donaldrose@cpcinternet.com">Rosemary Huskey</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, December 01, 2011 9:02 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=jampot@roadrunner.com
href="mailto:jampot@roadrunner.com">'Gary Crabtree'</A> ; <A
title=Vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Newt's work plan for poor
kids</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Maybe not a
heartless bastard, just a pompous, self-entitled jackass. What makes Newt
think that poor kids can’t learn office skills or be trained to be assistance
librarians? Let me help you to understand, Gary. That
pathetic serial adulterer, hypocritical, ethically challenged little twerp’s
message decoded (i.e. translated for those who have never lived in the South)
simply means black kids are great with mops, buckets, and toilet bowl brushes,
but office work, not so much. That said, I have two other observations to
make about Newt. The first is courtesy of Paul Klugman “he’s (Newt) a
stupid man’s idea of what a smart person sounds like.” And the second,
which probably reflects the positions of many Progressive voters, if the
Republicans are silly enough to “overlook” the baggage Newt brings to the party,
Democrats will be dancing in the streets.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">And, by the way, I
am a great believer in the notion that kids rich or poor (from their middle
teens on) should be happy to pick up some part-time work, which will help them
gain a sense of purpose and responsibility, financial management skills, and a
boost in deservedly earned self-esteem. I worked 30 hours a week from my
16<SUP>th</SUP> birthday until I graduated from high school. But, guess
what, nobody ever suggested that the only skill I might have, or the only work I
might be fit to do was clean the bathrooms at Moscow High
School.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Rose
Huskey<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">
vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <B>On
Behalf Of </B>Gary Crabtree<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, December 01, 2011 7:51
PM<BR><B>To:</B> Tom Hansen; Moscow Vision 2020<BR><B>Cc:</B> Penni
Cyr<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Say
What?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: black">Sounds as though the
man is putting forward the radical conservative concept of "the part time, after
school job." What a heartless bastard.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P style="BACKGROUND: whitesmoke" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <A
title=thansen@moscow.com href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">Tom Hansen</A>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P style="BACKGROUND: whitesmoke" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Sent:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> Thursday, December
01, 2011 6:07 PM<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P style="BACKGROUND: whitesmoke" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">To:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Moscow Vision
2020</A> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P style="BACKGROUND: whitesmoke" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Cc:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <A
title=cpenni@gmail.com href="mailto:cpenni@gmail.com">Penni Cyr</A>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P style="BACKGROUND: whitesmoke" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Subject:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> [Vision2020] Say
What?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN class=apple-style-span><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt">"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>
<o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR><BR></SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN class=apple-style-span><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt">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><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR><BR></SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN class=apple-style-span><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">- Republican
presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (December 1, 2011)</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><BR><BR></SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><A
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gsc9ElmJEs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gsc9ElmJEs</A><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Seeya round town, Moscow.<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Moscow, Idaho<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal>"If not us, who?<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal>If not now, when?"<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>- Unknown<o:p></o:p></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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