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TO THE EDITOR Chair of the Energy and Environment Committee. Another member of the com- mittee is Springfield Rep. Terry Beyer. Beyer toured our facility so she could have a better understanding of the impact of NextStep on her constituents. Call, email, send snail mail and let your legisla- tor know you support reuse before recycling! Lorraine Kerwood Founder & executive di- rector, NextStep Recycling SAVE THE PLANET Capitalism doesn’t work if you don’t include all of the costs in the price of goods, and we all know our vital re- sources are being gobbled up by corporate in- terests at low prices only to keep prices low. The burden of the cost’s missing elements is placed on the future, and for our own future benefit, it is time to feed the future. If we as a body of laws have chosen to allow corpora- tions to partake of our resources at unrecover- able rates, we must end up making laws tax- ing ourselves to recover those resources. Taxes on environmentally damaging prac- tices seem to be an obvious answer, or how will we replenish our resources? I say it is time to tax one of the major polluters on the planet, the animal products industries. Take away an animal products based diet, and you will accomplish more for the environment than taking away oil, gas and coal combined (someone wake up Al Gore!). People can live much easier and healthier without animal products in their foods than they can live without transportation and electricity. No doubt health insurance would be cheaper too. Starting locally is one excellent way to go as the money tends to stay local, and I hear we have a majority of county commissioners who are willing to make the tax move to save us from future failure. Greg Daugherty Eugene TWO FUTURES MATH OF DESTRUCTION Are you smarter than a fifth grader? Math is often messy. Especially for us grownups! For instance, in the war on Iraq, the U.K. medical journal The Lancet says there may be as many as a million Iraqis now dead due to this war. The Department of Defense says that al- most 25,000 Americans have been wounded in the war on Iraq. But this number only re- flects physical wounds. I don’t think anyone will be able to count the number of Americans who return home with mental wounds. Here is a number we grownups can under- stand: three. This is the current average num- ber of Americans killed every day in the war. I’ve devised a very simple equation to de- termine when we should end this war on Iraq and bring our troops home. Think you can solve it? Grab a piece of paper, a #2 pencil and write your name on the top line. Are you ready? First, write down today’s date. Then, choose a date you would like to bring our troops home and write that down. Next, write down the total number of days between now and then. Finally, take this number and multi- ply it by three. You now have your answer. This is the total number of Americans you are willing to get killed before we bring our troops home. If you don’t like this number, change the date you want our troops back home and solve the equation again. Repeat until you have a final answer you can accept. George W. Bush’s answer is 1,968 dead Americans. What is yours? Rees Maxwell Eugene In January of 2009, the ex-president will return to Texas with a generous retirement package financed by American taxpayers. He and his family will have the most complete health plan available. A permanent security detail assigned to his ranch will provide a va- riety of incidental services. There will be funds for an office and administrative costs of the future presidential library. He will live fi- nancially worry free the rest of his life. In January of 2009, physically and men- BEN LINDER, ¡PRESENTE! tally wounded veterans of the tragic Iraq war I wish to give tribute to celebrate the life will still be faced with an uncertain future for of Benjamin Linder, who gave his knowl- themselves and their loved ones. Medical and edge, energy, humor and love to the people of mental services from the Veterans’ Nicaragua. Administration will be inadequate. Those un- Ben was a mechanical engineer from able to work will have difficulty Portland who went to providing medical coverage for Nicaragua in August of their families. Veterans’ benefits 1983. There, in the re- and disability pensions will not mote mountain region of provide a decent standard of living El Cuá-Bocay, he for their children nor provide for worked on hydroelectric college educations. Many will live projects that today pro- with pain and uncertainty the rest of vide energy to the com- their lives. munity, schools, clinics Shame on Bush! Shame on us! and poor farmers. R.C. 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