CIGARETTE COUNTRIES

BUSINESS WEEK (2009)5/4

38-42/ Byrnes & Balfour

Do you want to look sophisticated?  Do you want romance? Then you should smoke cigarettes! That is what the new countries targeted by the big tobacco are saying. Well, you have heard it before. Finally since the warnings of the Department of Health in 1965 people get hooked any way. If you can just get to them when they are impressionable, you got them for life. My very best friend died of smokes. So there is a bias…

So, they are heading to Indonesia, China, Russia and surrounding areas. What is ideal is that there is no age restriction or warning on the cigarette packages. So, you hook them when they are young and you got them. You may want to look at this as population control. You get a sin tax off of it too. What is there to lose? Medical care is not the best so give them pain killers and let them go home to die.

The CEO of one smokes, but he does not want his kids to smoke. I wonder why?

TAXES: NOT ALL CORPORATIONS PAY THE SAME

BYRNES/49-51

The GAO found from 1998- 2005, the top 55% of the top 500 corporations had at least one year that they did not pay any taxes at all. Obama is trying to close this loophole.

BUSINESSWEEK.COM list the top 100 lowest paying taxes.

FORMER EMPLOYESS THAT ARE LAID OFF BECOME ALUMNI

Baker/ 54-55

It is another form of temping. You get fired, but at times they need you to come back for less money and benefits.

NEWSWEEK (2009) 5/18

MILLER PAGE 12

Sometime in the late part of 2012, we will see that axis of both poles exchange forces with each other and calamity may emerge. Further, the milky way will be blocking the sun. All this is from the Mayan calendar. There are many books out about this. Where Evangelicals have an end of the world so now do New Age, it should be noted.

However, anthropologists who work with the Mayans today indicate that Mayan culture is really plural. There are some 26 different tribes and a number of calendars. Those who work with Mayans in Mexico see the world ending or poles moving toward the other position as a Gringo invention.

HODGEOPODGE

5/18

ADLER/53

Most would like to see the medical files computerized. However, the fear is that it will be done in such a disordered way that it will not be cost effective and may sully other procedures.

70/ ANNA QUINLAN is stepping aside. I remember when she started. NEWSWEEK is also going to change its format.

BUSINESS WEEK (2009) 5/11

Einhorn/ 28

There are now more homes with only cell phones as opposed to only land lines. Further,

China has a bunch of cell phones that are really cheap and work well.

COY/ THERE ARE 3 MILLION JOBS AND NO ONE TO FILL THEM.

We still are losing jobs due to the recession, but the new jobs emerging need lots or training. They pay well, but most people can not do them. They need extensive training so does that mean that we go overseas to get what are called ANALYTICS? This is not good for the economy.

GROW &BERNER

48-51/ GROVE AND BERNER

There is legislation that may help you with your credit card, but that means you need to depend on those blue dog Democrats to come through and vote in support of the consumer.