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. Cross
Ben was also a very
Eugene Ben Linder in Nicaragua
talented clown, juggler
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