<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>As a matter of practice, I tip a minimum of 20%. I NEVER (unless there is no option) apply a tip to a credit card payment, as such tips are easily taxable. Cash left on the table, hanging on the outside doorknob (newspaper service), stuffed into an envelope into somebody's mail slot, etc. etc. . . is virtually non-taxable (as there are no receipts involved).</div><div><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div></div><div><br>On Jan 9, 2014, at 1:17 PM, Kai Eiselein <<a href="mailto:fotopro63@hotmail.com">fotopro63@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>The fact that tipped employees can be paid less is nothing new, nor is it confined to Idaho, Tom.</span><br><span>My second job out of high school was as a waiter and I made something like $1.25/hr plus tips. I averaged about $75 a day in tips... in 1982, in the poorest county in Arizona. When I was promoted into a management position, I actually made LESS than I did as a waiter, $1,400/mo vs about $1,700.</span><br><span>We had an older lady, nicknamed Granny, who had waited tables for most of her adult life, and she was upset if she didn't pull in at least $150/day.</span><br><span>The thing I see now, is that servers "expect" good tips regardless of whether their service merits it or not. I busted my ass to make tips, and was usually rewarded. </span><br><span>I tip well for those who provide good service, a $23 tip on an $77 ticket in NY last week, for example. On the other hand, I won't stiff a server, but I will leave as little as 50 cents to send a message that their service sucked. I've left a lot of those here in Moscow.</span><br><span>You want my money? Earn it.</span><br><span></span><br><span>________________________________</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>From: <a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>To: <a href="mailto:ngier006@gmail.com">ngier006@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">godshatter@yahoo.com</a> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 12:41:47 -0800 </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>CC: <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Fifty years ago today (January 8, 1964) </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Speaking of Idaho and minimum wage . . . </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Courtesy of the Idaho Department of Labor at: </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://labor.idaho.gov/pdf/wagehour.pdf">http://labor.idaho.gov/pdf/wagehour.pdf</a> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>------------------------------------- </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>“MINIMUM WAGE </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Unless specifically exempt, all employees subject to the provisions of </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>the Idaho Minimum Wage Law must be paid at least $7.25 per hour </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>effective July 24, 2009. The federal minimum wage increased to $7.25 </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>per hour effective the same date. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>A “TIPPED EMPLOYEE” means any employee engaged in an occupation in </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>which the employee customarily and regularly receives more than $30 a </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>month in tips. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>To determine the wage of tipped employees, an employee’s tips combined </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>with the employer’s cash wage must equal the minimum hourly wage. If it </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>doesn’t, the employer must make up the difference. It is the employer’s </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>burden to demonstrate the amount of tips actually received by the </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>employee. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Any portion of tips paid to an employee, which is shared with other </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>employees under a tip pooling or similar arrangement, shall not be </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>deemed, for the purpose of this section, to be tips actually received </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>by the employee; therefore, only the portion of tips actually retained </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>by the employee may be counted toward the tip credit. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>The minimum tipped wage in Idaho is $3.35 per hour effective July 24, 2007. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>It is important to note that the Idaho Minimum Wage Law applies to all </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Idaho employers unless they meet the specific exemptions under Idaho </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Code §44-1504. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Even though businesses come under the exemptions for paying minimum </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>wage by meeting the dollar volume test of the Fair Labor Standards Act, </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>they are still subject to the provisions of the Idaho Minimum Wage Law. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>New employees under 20 years of age may be paid $4.25 per hour during </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>their first 90 consecutive calendar days of employment with an </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>employer.” </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>------------------------------------- </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Title 44, Chapter 15, Section 1504 </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://legislature.idaho.gov/idstat/Title44/T44CH15SECT44-1504.htm">http://legislature.idaho.gov/idstat/Title44/T44CH15SECT44-1504.htm</a> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Yep. That’s right. Idaho has made it legal to pay “tipped employees” </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>less than minimum wage. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Now, imagine being a single-parent-waitress in Idaho. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>What can I say, but . . . </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Esto perpetua, V-Peeps. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Tom Hansen </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Moscow, Idaho </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>From: <a href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com">vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>[<a href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com">mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a>] On Behalf Of Nicholas Gier </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 11:58 AM </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>To: Paul Rumelhart </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Cc: vision2020@moscow com </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Fifty years ago today (January 8, 1964) </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hi Paul, </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>This a cute rhetorical trick used by conservatives, but I will trump </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>you: Let's raise the minimum wage to $1 million an hour. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Of course all proposals, including the one that will probably even pass </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>in Idaho (I recommend that you sign the petition, Paul), call for a </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>gradual increases pegged to inflation. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>As we have seen from history, the free market does not (no surprise </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>here) solve all problems. The government had to intervene to make it </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>possible for workers to bargaining collectively, so that they did not </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>have to blow up their workplaces in desperation. There were no </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>incentives for employers to bargain in good faith without "enabling" </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>legislation. Likewise with wages. The market will keep them as low as </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>employers desire with dire consequences for workers and society as a </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>whole. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Paul, can you tell me why the economies of Australia and Brazil are </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>doing so well if increasing the minimum wage is so destructive? I </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>always like to offer empirical evidence for the theories I prefer. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Nick </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Paul Rumelhart </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><<a href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">godshatter@yahoo.com</a><<a href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com</a>>> wrote: </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I have no idea why Rosauers decided to build their new store in WA </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>instead of ID. I'm not privy to that kind of information. Why did </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>they? </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I'm not trying to shove a point down people's throats or get in a quick </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>zinger. I'm trying to have a discussion. Whenever anyone brings up </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>raising the minimum wage, I'm reminded that I'm distrustful of </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>government intrusions into the free markets. It also makes me wonder </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>where they expect small businesses to get the money for the wage and </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>resulting benefit increases. It also makes me wonder what sort of </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>equation they use to determine that $9.32 for example is the </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>appropriate value to raise them to. I also start thinking about </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>reasons people might not be paying that higher wage before the raise </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>happens, and I don't just assume "greed" and "GOP is evil" as the </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>answer. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Paul </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>________________________________ </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>From: Nicholas Gier <<a href="mailto:ngier006@gmail.com">ngier006@gmail.com</a><<a href="mailto:ngier006@gmail.com">mailto:ngier006@gmail.com</a>>> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>To: Moscow Cares <<a href="mailto:moscowcares@moscow.com">moscowcares@moscow.com</a><<a href="mailto:moscowcares@moscow.com">mailto:moscowcares@moscow.com</a>>> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Cc: Paul Rumelhart <<a href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">godshatter@yahoo.com</a><<a href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com</a>>>; </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Donovan Arnold </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><<a href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com">donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com</a><<a href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com">mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com</a>>>; </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>"<a href="mailto:fotopro63@hotmail.com">fotopro63@hotmail.com</a><<a href="mailto:fotopro63@hotmail.com">mailto:fotopro63@hotmail.com</a>>" </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><<a href="mailto:fotopro63@hotmail.com">fotopro63@hotmail.com</a><<a href="mailto:fotopro63@hotmail.com">mailto:fotopro63@hotmail.com</a>>>; </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>"vision2020@moscow com" </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:vision2020@moscow.com</a>>> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2014 10:11 AM </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Fifty years ago today (January 8, 1964) </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Tom: you forgot one thing. These people will pay more taxes. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Paul: you can theorize all you want. but the facts are in from </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Australia ($16/hour), Brazil (two huge increases in the minimum wage), </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>and now our neighboring state. Otter just boasted about Idaho's GDP </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>growth, but it's even better in good ole lefty WA. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Recently, Rosauer's had a choice to build a new store in Newport, WA. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> They had a choice between the WA side and the ID side. Why did they </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>choose the WA side, Paul? </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Yours for worker's rights and against the theft of their productivity, </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Nick </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Moscow Cares </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><<a href="mailto:moscowcares@moscow.com">moscowcares@moscow.com</a><<a href="mailto:moscowcares@moscow.com">mailto:moscowcares@moscow.com</a>>> wrote: </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Paul Rumelhart inquires: </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>"If our government mandates an increase in wages, won't most businesses </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>in this tough economy who have already mapped out just how much they </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>can afford to spend on salaries (and benefits) simply lay some people </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>off?" </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>This certainly explains the state of Washington's (the state with the </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>highest minimum wage at $9.32/hour) unemployment rate of 6.8% (rankin' </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>in at 24th among the Nifty Fifty). </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>And it most certainly explains why Hawkins Companies wants to build a </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>mall (employing many many people) just west of the Washington/Idaho </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>state-line. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Although my degree is in Information Systems, and not related to </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>economics, let me try to explain this . . . </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>- If minimum wage is increased, the more money the people collecting </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>these wages will have. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>- If people have more money, they tend to spend more money. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>- If people soend more money, more products are sold. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>- If more products are sold, demand for those products goes up. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>- If demand for products goes up, more of those products must be </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>manufactured and stocked. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>- If more products are manufactured and stocked, more people must be </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>employed to manufacture, stock, and sell these products. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Am I going too fast for you, Mr. Rumelhart? </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . . </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on) </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com<http://www.moscowcares.com/>">http://www.MoscowCares.com<http://www.moscowcares.com/></a> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Tom Hansen </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Moscow, Idaho </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>"There's room at the top they are telling you still. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>But first you must learn to smile as you kill, </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>If you want to be like the folks on the hill." </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>- John Lennon </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Jan 9, 2014, at 9:38 AM, Paul Rumelhart </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><<a href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">godshatter@yahoo.com</a><<a href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com</a>>> wrote: </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>If our government mandates an increase in wages, won't most businesses </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>in this tough economy who have already mapped out just how much they </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>can afford to spend on salaries (and benefits) simply lay some people </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>off? The only other option is to raise prices, but people selling </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>widgets are already working to hit that optimal price for their product </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>based on a number of factors. Having to raise price to offset salaries </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>could upset the apple cart. Same thing if they have to scale back </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>because they can't afford to pay everyone at the new wage level. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I'm curious whether that 10 to 25 percent number is really what we see </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>locally. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Paul </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>________________________________ </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>From: Donovan Arnold </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><<a href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com">donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com</a><<a href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com">mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com</a>>> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>To: "<a href="mailto:fotopro63@hotmail.com">fotopro63@hotmail.com</a><<a href="mailto:fotopro63@hotmail.com">mailto:fotopro63@hotmail.com</a>>" </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><<a href="mailto:fotopro63@hotmail.com">fotopro63@hotmail.com</a><<a href="mailto:fotopro63@hotmail.com">mailto:fotopro63@hotmail.com</a>>>; </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>"<a href="mailto:ngier006@gmail.com">ngier006@gmail.com</a><<a href="mailto:ngier006@gmail.com">mailto:ngier006@gmail.com</a>>" </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><<a href="mailto:ngier006@gmail.com">ngier006@gmail.com</a><<a href="mailto:ngier006@gmail.com">mailto:ngier006@gmail.com</a>>> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Cc: "vision2020@moscow com" </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:vision2020@moscow.com</a>>> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2014 7:49 AM </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Fifty years ago today (January 8, 1964) </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>The welfare state is bloated. It is bloated because wages are so low </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>that a family of two working adults cannot pay their basic living </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>expenses. If we raised wages less people would be on goverment </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>assistance and more would be paying taxes instead. The idea that </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>raising wages only causes inflation is an outdated one. This was when </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>labor was 50 to 90 percent of a business's expenses. Today, because of </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>automation and moving of jobs overseas, labor is only 10 to 25 percent </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>of a business's expense. Further, the bottom 90 percent of wage earners </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>make up an even smaller percentage of a business's expenses. Therefore, </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>raising wages even as much as 50 percent would only cause a 5 percent </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>increase in prices cover loses by employers. A 50 percent pay raise for </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>5 percent inflation would be a good increase in quality of life. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>________________________________ </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>From: Nicholas Gier <<a href="mailto:ngier006@gmail.com">ngier006@gmail.com</a><<a href="mailto:ngier006@gmail.com">mailto:ngier006@gmail.com</a>>>; </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>To: Kai Eiselein <<a href="mailto:fotopro63@hotmail.com">fotopro63@hotmail.com</a><<a href="mailto:fotopro63@hotmail.com">mailto:fotopro63@hotmail.com</a>>>; </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Cc: <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:vision2020@moscow.com</a>> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:vision2020@moscow.com</a>>>; </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Fifty years ago today (January 8, 1964) </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Sent: Thu, Jan 9, 2014 7:44:59 AM </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>The question to ask about American poverty is where would we be today </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>without Medicare, Medicaid, and Food Stamps? We are now at the bottom </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>of most industrialized nations in general health (worst in preventable </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>deaths), poverty, child health, STDs, infant mortality, adult life </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>spans, etc., etc. Without these programs we would have dropped to into </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Third World conditions. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Kai: if it is the bloated welfare state's fault, why is it that the </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Nordic countries (see attached) with the most generous benefits and </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>highest taxes are at the top of of all these quality of life </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>indicators? As I have been saying for years, economic facts defeat the </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>GOP on every issue. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Brazil has raised its minimum wage twice in huge increments, and its </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>poverty rate has dropped dramatically and its economy keeps humming </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>along. If the U.S. federal minimum wage had kept pace with inflation, </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>we would have won the war on poverty with that effort alone. Adjusted </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>for inflation wages have been flat since Ronnie Reagan, while the </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>fruits of our labor has gone to the rich and the corporations. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>The minimum wage in Australia is $16/hour and it was one of the only </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>countries that flew through the Great Recession with flying colors. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> They were government by the lefty Labor Party the whole time. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>The facts support the Middle Way between Communism and Libertarianism, </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Nick </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Kai Eiselein </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><<a href="mailto:fotopro63@hotmail.com">fotopro63@hotmail.com</a><<a href="mailto:fotopro63@hotmail.com">mailto:fotopro63@hotmail.com</a>>> wrote: </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>That's pretty much what the graph in USA Today showed this morning. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>They had an article about it in yesterday and today's edition. Saw it </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>while eating breakfast at a La Quinta the past two mornings. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>If I had to venture a guess for why it has failed, it would be that too </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>much money goes to bloated bureaucracies and not enough gets to the </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>actual programs. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Our government can be counted on for a few things: </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Lies </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Spying on citizens </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>F---king up just about everything it tries to manage. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>________________________________ </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>From: <a href="mailto:scooterd408@hotmail.com">scooterd408@hotmail.com</a><<a href="mailto:scooterd408@hotmail.com">mailto:scooterd408@hotmail.com</a>> </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>To: <a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a><<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">mailto:thansen@moscow.com</a>>; </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:vision2020@moscow.com</a>> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 13:51:55 -0700 </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Fifty years ago today (January 8, 1964) </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>War on Poverty at 50 -- despite trillions spent, poverty won </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>'Over, the last 50 years, the government spent more than $16 trillion </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>to fight poverty. </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Yet today, 15 percent of Americans still live in poverty. That’s </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>scarcely better than the 19 percent living in poverty at the time of </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Johnson’s speech. Nearly 22 percent of children live in poverty </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>today. In 1964, it was 23 percent.' </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/01/08/war-on-poverty-at-50-despite-trillions-spent-poverty-won/">http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/01/08/war-on-poverty-at-50-despite-trillions-spent-poverty-won/</a> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>I don't have the time to fact check, but the story is from Fox News </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>which is the only source of news trusted by conservatives. </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>________________________________ </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>From: <a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a><<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">mailto:thansen@moscow.com</a>> </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 04:48:26 -0800 </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>To: <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:vision2020@moscow.com</a>> </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Subject: [Vision2020] Fifty years ago today (January 8, 1964) </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>"This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>poverty in America. I urge this Congress and all Americans to join with </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>me in that effort. </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>It will not be a short or easy struggle, no single weapon or strategy </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>will suffice, but we shall not rest until that war is won. The richest </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Nation on earth can afford to win it. We cannot afford to lose it. One </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>thousand dollars invested in salvaging an unemployable youth today can </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>return $40,000 or more in his lifetime. </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Poverty is a national problem, requiring improved national organization </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>and support. But this attack, to be effective, must also be organized </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>at the State and the local level and must be supported and directed by </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>State and local efforts. </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>For the war against poverty will not be won here in Washington. It must </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>be won in the field, in every private home, in every public office, </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>from the courthouse to the White House. </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>The program I shall propose will emphasize this cooperative approach to </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>help that one-fifth of all American families with incomes too small to </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>even meet their basic needs. </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Our chief weapons in a more pinpointed attack will be better schools, </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>and better health, and better homes, and better training, and better </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>job opportunities to help more Americans, especially young Americans, </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>escape from squalor and misery and unemployment rolls where other </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>citizens help to carry them. </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Very often a lack of jobs and money is not the cause of poverty, but </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>the symptom. The cause may lie deeper in our failure to give our fellow </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>citizens a fair chance to develop their own capacities, in a lack of </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>education and training, in a lack of medical care and housing, in a </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>lack of decent communities in which to live and bring up their </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>children. </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>But whatever the cause, our joint Federal-local effort must pursue </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>poverty, pursue it wherever it exists--in city slums and small towns, </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>in sharecropper shacks or in migrant worker camps, on Indian </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Reservations, among whites as well as Negroes, among the young as well </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>as the aged, in the boom towns and in the depressed areas. </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Our aim is not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>and, above all, to prevent it. No single piece of legislation, however, </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>is going to suffice. </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>We will launch a special effort in the chronically distressed areas of </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Appalachia. </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>We must expand our small but our successful area redevelopment program. </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>We must enact youth employment legislation to put jobless, aimless, </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>hopeless youngsters to work on useful projects. </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>We must distribute more food to the needy through a broader food stamp </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>program. </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>We must create a National Service Corps to help the economically </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>handicapped of our own country as the Peace Corps now helps those </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>abroad. </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>We must modernize our unemployment insurance and establish a high-level </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>commission on automation. If we have the brain power to invent these </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>machines, we have the brain power to make certain that they are a boon </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>and not a bane to humanity. </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>We must extend the coverage of our minimum wage laws to more than 2 </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>million workers now lacking this basic protection of purchasing power. </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>We must, by including special school aid funds as part of our education </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>program, improve the quality of teaching, training, and counseling in </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>our hardest hit areas." </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>- President Lyndon Johnson in his State of the Union Address (January </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>8, 1964) </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/640108.asp">http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/640108.asp</a> 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