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Sierra Club nominate conservative economist Henry Ward - CMR Commissioner

P. O. Box 1295

Gautier, MS 39553

shepartsteve@gmail.com

October 2, 2018

Timmy Ladner, Chairman, Marine Resources

Mississippi House of Representatives

400 High Street

Jackson, MS 39201

Brice Wiggins, Chairman, Env. Prot., Cons., Water Room

404-B P.O. Box 1018

Jackson, MS 39215

Philip Moran, Chairman, Wildlife Fisheries and Parks

Room 214-F

P.O. Box 1018

Jackson, MS 39215

David Baria

Capitol: Rm Bsmnt-B

P.O. Box 1018

Jackson, MS 39215

Jeremy Anderson

Capitol: 400-F

P.O. Box 1018

Jackson, MS 39215

Dear Chairmen/Members Ladner, Wiggins, Moran, Baria and Anderson:

Please feel free to share this letter with any members of the State Legislature that are involved in nominating persons for Commissioner of the Environment at the Department of Marine Resources.

I am the Gulf Coast Group Chair of the Sierra Club. I represent the three coastal counties and the three counties above the coast for the State Chapter of the Sierra Club. I have lived on the coast most of my life and devote part of my time each day to advocating for a clean environment with as healthy an ecosystem as possible.

The Department of Marine Resources has been hampered in its responsibilities by first having a recent commissioner for the environment who had no background in what it means to represent environmental concerns on the commission. And now, with no re-nomination of that person, we have a Commission with four members not able to act effectively on issues without environmental input. We need an environmental commissioner who has awareness of the importance of clean air and water and knows how coastal activities and rules around activities impact the environment.

I am pleased to suggest Henry Ward, of Hancock County, as environmental commissioner precisely because he has lived on this coast all or most of his life and is vitally concerned that clean air, water, coastal development, rules around activities on our coast, can either lower our quality of life or enhance our economic prosperity depending on what is decided in that regard. An environmental commissioner needs to understand as Henry does that when you pollute, you cost us money.

Henry was educated in economics in many countries, such as while interacting with Margaret Thatcher's staff during the time when Hong Kong's lease was ending and that colony was returned to China (where he understood full well that China's pollution policies were not as good as Hong Kong's and could affect the economy there if lower standards were forced on that former colony). He was mentored by an international marketing professional in the petroleum industry; his fishing from youth to his experiences as a sailor, charter boat hand, oceanography student, seasoned tow-boat engineer that included a one-way trip by water to Venezuela after riding out Hurricane Andrew (1992) in Morgan City, LA--are all qualifications for serving at the Department of Marine Resources. He worked for Ship Island Excursions and marketed that family business starting in 1994.

About one year ago at one of our meetings, Henry recognized our guest, Jerry Benninger, an environmental protection specialist, EPA Gulf of Mexico Program, because Henry had attended a meeting sponsored by GOMP prior to our having Benninger as a guest speaker. Henry was able to show with the help of our guest, that the byproduct of his efforts to develop three downtowns beginning in 1994, agreed with the Gulf of Mexico Program's for a greater economy while lessening the use of gas guzzling transportation coast wide. As Henry has stated, “We promote shoe sales, not tire sales, while making sure visitors to Mississippi are happy walking downtown.”

Henry recently produced a tax collection graph that shows environmental “miracles” from his mainly voluntary efforts with a not for profit brochure company, map company and consulting business to maximize exposure of the environmental beauty of South Mississippi. Henry is dedicated to encouraging any traveler that sees the Mississippi Gulf Coast leaving with a sense of enjoyment sufficient to encourage their return over and over again. By marketing the walkable downtowns such as in Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian, Gulfport, Biloxi and Ocean Springs, he has spread great wealth to small businesses while better serving a more-healthy environment.

This may not sound like what an environmental commissioner should do on the DMR commission, but it is exactly what the Sierra Club seeks and I'm sure most other environmental groups seek as well. An environment without prosperous small businesses in attractive settings is an environment subject to degradation. Since Dupont entered its effluent upon Henry's Bay St. Louis in his teen years, he has been dedicated to finding a better more prosperous way of economically developing the Gulf Coast. Instead of an industry that lessens the clarity and cleanness of the air and water for limited profits, Henry believes we should pursue policies that enhance the coast and attract investment that works with our natural beauty and drives up our property values.

Henry was not able to put together a grant proposal for the 2018 EPA grants which could have been for $300,000 per waterfront community. However, he may have a chance again in 2019 to write grants for seven cities on the coast and win up to $2.1 million so economies can be developed with attractive clean environments in and around them. This looks like a whole new avenue for the Mississippi Gulf Coast Sierra Club to support Henry's plan of action-- an environmental conservative's efforts-- toward a better economy in a waterfront tourism alchemy.

Please give Henry Ward your nomination for Environmental Commissioner, Department of Marine Resources Commission.

Sincerely,

Steve Shepard

Gulf Coast Group

Sierra Club

Saving Israel comes with knowing history and hospitality

My friend, Danny has been employed in the petroleum industry food service business for 30+ years and is married to a Columbian born wife.  He was raised with me and has moved away, but loves his home town of Waveland, MS.  He posted this on Facebook, so here is my answer.

OK, I will try by explaining the "colonization" of your back yard ..........Keep in mind that my wisdom is limited to: USM Business Degree in Marketing, with extra educations in communications, psychology, economics, real estate and hospitality;  SPECIFIC educatiors include the “Head of the Clearance Corporation” of Chicago Board of Trades 1982; Green Party Founder and Pres. Candidate of Austria; V.P. of Bank of Austria, a Rothschild Bank (well known for financing wars), who taught the secrets to international money laundering after Reaganomics; Budapest Stock Exchange with its first 7 stocks in trade (Hungary has recently refused Rothchild's money and secured their borders); Followed and employed a hospitality stock that went from $3 - $70+ per share in six months in Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Dresden and Berlin following the fall of the Berlin Wall (currencies were not secure, no government existed in many places, Just FREEDOM).  I celebrated World Cup Victory for a new uniting Germany in E. & W. Berlin 1990 with locals.  Foosball Deutschland AA-O-AAAAAA!!!

I was taught the history of British Hong Kong colonization and British Rule from 1841- 1990, and the planning for future changes during and after exit (expiring lease in 1997) by Margaret Thatcher’s assistant; Mentored by the Int. Mkt. V.P. of British Petroleum/Int.  Mkt. consultant to Royal Dutch Shell, who taught me “Colonization of America” by the “Trusted Caucasian from Europe”, whose investments influence American consumer behavior. We toured as he explained the “Financial Center of the World” (London Stock Exchange), Lloyd’s of London (where we learned that it was about individual and/or cumulative negotiations of portions of risk with the “Jewish Bankers that control most of the world’s wealth.” He was my mentor, one month before judgement of I.R.S. VS. Gulf Oil Co. (founded by Mellon Bank of Pittsburgh) dissolved the Seven Sisters, and forced a regroup of ownerships due to their colonization/ tax deductible marketing strategy and use of small community and big city applications of accommodations taxes to market confusion to strangers, while creating new destinations for travel at the tax payers expense for unnecessary colonization.  

 As petroleum companies destroy lives and draw lines in the names of the Kings and Queens of the world (many of whom own the oil rights of the land of most of the population) with Keynesian Economics in a Free World.  Like others, Gulf Oil owned more land than oil, as well as controlled Holiday Inn since 1963.  American oil companies were forced to sell the non - petroleum rich land to the owners of such investors as British Petroleum, Murphy, and other foreign oil companies that are thought to be American own much of the tourism assets and land of Baldwin, Escambia, and South Mobile Counties, as well as much of the world developed since the Great Depression and the National Highway Act of 1956. 

I learned the beauty of hospitality as a contribution to humanity by locals who met their first American travelers near Glasgow (Culture Capital ‘90), a 1.5 hour drive from future President Trump’s resort.  My front door in college was 10 feet from the Hattiesburg Mosque front door.  I sold a series of Nelson Bibles and education books to people of all religions.  In my second year, I managed and roomed with a man from Jerusalem and one from Baghdad, whom were recruited by Carlos of Columbia in 1991.  I experienced my first “visitor’s penalty tax” at the airport while leaving WW 2 headquarters of Royal Dutch Shell, Curacao.  I thought, “Boy I can’t wait to make it to a free country like the United States of America, where such in-hospitality would be forbidden.”  Like Mississippi people intend to be the nicest, I witnessed great hospitality while living among the exceptional poor in Maracaibo, Venezuela. 

So, here is where you can begin to understand why some people blame the “Jews”, the masses are blamed for the “economic sodomy” (taking advantage of the sojourner) of a few “false Jews” that control the land, people and world wealth through banking and claims on commodities like oil with absolute control by governments, like Mississippi, whom are loyal taxing visitors in the interest of overconsumption of commodities to grow to Big Banks.  While Secretary of State and President Obama have abandoned the sovereignty of Israel, it important to remember that some people are raised to see Jewish as the enemy and Israel’s best bet is on the brotherhood of supporters.  Muslims and Jews need a solution, as do the people of Mississippi.  ALL Moral RELIGIONS BELIEVE IN HOSPITALITY.

Thomas Jefferson warned us:

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies,” Jefferson wrote.  ”If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around (these banks) will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

“The issuing power of currency shall be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”

As I see Donald J. Trump as a true leader in Hospitality in the past (acquiring spiritual and economic wealth).  He should not be judged by a few failures in Atlantic City or any place where Keynesian Theory was applied to a politically controlled marketing system of hospitality, like I have that hope in his appointments want to demonstrate how to save Mississippi (poorest, most corrupt, most obese and most hospitable people) and demonstrate how Trump will save the world by: 1.) Drive the cost of a barrel of oil to around $30 or less with protection of labor wages for American oil, tax oil heavily and keep retail fixed below $2.20 for at least 4 years.  2.) Dissolve all special tax on accommodations for travelers.  3.)  Write EPA grants to reduce fuel consumption in the tourism industry.  4.) Remove all advertising rights from government, with the exception for public safety.

Atlantic City demonstrates Economic Sodomy and Keynesian Theory - a failure for capitalism

Taxable Status About New Jersey Taxes Atlantic City: The following chart will serve as a guide to illustrate the taxable status of various transactions that are subject to Atlantic City luxury tax, New Jersey sales tax, and the State hotel/motel occupancy fee.

Luxury Tax, New Jersey Sales Tax & Other Fees Publication ANJ–17 New Jersey Division of Taxation u Technical Services Activity Sales of alcoholic beverages by the drink, including bottles of beer, wine, etc. opened and consumed on premises....................... 3% 7% n/a 10%

Sales of food and nonalcoholic beverages intended for consumption on the premises.............................................................. – 7% n/a 7%

Rentals of apartments (except hotels or motels): • for less than eight weeks............................................................... 9% – – 9% • for eight weeks or more ............ Rentals of rooms, apartments, or other facilities in hotels, motels, bed and breakfast inns, rooming and boarding houses, or similar establishments (see Notes 1 and 2): • for less than 90 days .................................................................... 9% 4% 1% 14% • for 90 days or more, but for less than one year ............................ 9% – – 9% • under a lease for one year or more ..............................................

Cover charges, minimum charges, entertainment, or similar charges in a restaurant, cafe, cabaret, hotel, or similar establishment ............ 9% 4% n/a 13%

Admission charges to any theater, moving picture exhibition or show, pier, exhibition, or place of amusement (see Note 3) ......... 9% 4% n/a 13%

Charges for rolling chairs, sightseeing rides, tram rides, horoscope machines, and fortune tellers .............................................................. 9% – n/a 9%

Charges for amusement rides and rentals of beach chairs, cabanas, and bicycles......................................................................................... 9% 4% n/a 13%

Note 1: The State hotel/motel occupancy fee is imposed on the rental of a room in a hotel, motel, or similar facility in New Jersey. In most municipalities, the occupancy fee was 7% between August 1, 2003, and June 30, 2004. On and after July 1, 2004, the fee is 5%. However, in Atlantic City, which already imposes a local tax (luxury tax) on hotel/motel occupancies, the State occupancy fee is 1%. This fee is in addition to any other taxes and/ or fees imposed. Note

2: Rentals of conference rooms, banquet rooms, and other places of assembly are exempt from both sales tax and the State occupancy fee.

Note 3: Charges for admission for participant sports or to sporting events where other State tax is collected are exempt from sales tax

Tourism Promotion Fee in Hotels, Etc. A tourism promotion fee of either $1 or $2 per day is charged for each room rental in a hotel, motel, inn, rooming house, etc. This fee applies to each room either occupied or possessed by guests, other than as a place of assembly. The fee is also due with respect to “complimentary” occupancies. The rate of $2 per day applies to each occupied room in the case of hotels which provide casino gambling. The $1 per day rate applies to each occupied room in all other facilities. The fee is only includible in a taxable receipt for either sales tax or luxury tax purposes if passed along to the customer as part of the room rent, whether or not the fee is separately stated. Casino Fees. A minimum charge of $3 a day is imposed for the use of a parking space for parking, garaging, or storing motor vehicles on property owned or leased by a casino hotel. For more information see Technical Bulletin TB-22, Atlantic City Casino Parking Fees. There is also a fee of $3 a day on each hotel room in a casino hotel that is occupied by a guest, whether for consideration or as a complimentary item. This fee is in addition to any other taxes and/or fees imposed on such occupancies.

Hospitality in Islam, Judaism and World Banking

Under Islam, a stranger is referred to as “Ibn Al-Sabil” (wayfarer) who is paid a lot of attention by Islam. The Qur’an considers that it is an act of righteousness to give money to a wayfarer.

We read the following verse:

Righteousness is not that you turn your faces toward the east or the west, but [true] righteousness is [in] one who believes in Allah , the Last Day, the angels, the Book, and the prophets and gives wealth, in spite of love for it, to relatives, orphans, the needy, the traveler… (Al-Baqarah 2:177)

The Qur’an orders doing good to wayfarers. We read the following verse:Worship Allah and associate nothing with Him, and to parents do good, and to relatives, orphans, the needy, the near neighbor, the neighbor farther away, the companion at your side, the traveler… (An-Nisaa’ 4:36)

A wayfarer was entitled to a share in the war booty. In the Qur’an, we read the following verse:

And know that anything you obtain of war booty – then indeed, for Allah is one fifth of it and for the Messenger and for [his] near relatives and the orphans, the needy, and the [stranded] traveler… (Al-Anfal 8:41)

A wayfarer was also entitled to a share in the Zakah expenditures. In the Qur’an, we read the following verse:

Zakah expenditures are only for the poor and for the needy and for those employed to collect [zakah] and for bringing hearts together [for Islam] and for freeing captives [or slaves] and for those in debt and for the cause of Allah and for the [stranded] traveler – an obligation [imposed] by Allah. (At-Tawbah 9:60)

Prophet Muhammad urged Muslims to give money to the wayfarers. Abu Said Al-Khudry reports that the Messenger of Allah said: “This money is green and sweet. It is a good companion of the Muslim who gives from it to the orphan, the needy and the wayfarers.” (Ahmad)

According to Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), the one who denies a wayfarer his surplus water is one of three persons at whom God will not look on the Day of Judgment.

Judaism http://jewishnews.com.ua/en/publication/8_rules_of_jewish_hospitality

Excerpt:

People nowadays are more withdrawn. The older generation still remembers the tradition of hospitality, when it was not only customary to visit each other at home, but to stay the night. Now people don’t meet “face to face” or on private territories any more, but in cafés. The home is the external reflection of the inner being of the person! By letting someone into our domain, we automatically open up a piece of our inner self, we reveal our true nature, give people the chance to know us, and we open our most valuable things to our guests – our home, family, atmosphere, traditions… Everything that is a profound understanding of the commandment of “Hospitality”.

How should one receive guests correctly?

1. It’s important to create psychological comfort for the guest. People may not know you personally at all. They have simply called the project and expressed the desire to spend Shabbat in a family. Accordingly, they’ll feel uncomfortable and awkward, especially as they on a “strange” territory and among unfamiliar people.

2. It’s appropriate to ask guests whether this is their first Shabbat. This may also be another factor for their embarrassment: they will be afraid to do something wrong, or sit tensely through the entire meal, not understanding what is happening and why. Remember that you should carefully explain each part of the meal and say what will happen next. And don’t teach them manners, the person is not your pupil, but your guest!

3. In receiving new people, provide dishes without meat or that are not fried, as your guest may be a vegetarian or may have stomach problems.

4. If there are factors for the receiving side which are fundamental in the home (not to ring the doorbell, not to talk on the telephone, or for example not to take off shoes), agree on them at the moment of invitation, but not as a request. For example: “Please knock on the door. We don’t use the doorbell on Shabbat”. Don’t increase discomfort by showing the guest’s lack of knowledge.

5. When a guest asks what to bring, I reply: “A big smile!” But if a secular person even turns him with a present, for example with flowers, you shouldn’t tell them at the doorway that this is incorrect. Over time they will realize this themselves. Your task at this moment is to provide them with experience and not crush their desire to learn about the fundaments of Judaism. It is important not to offend a person while observing Halakha [the rules of Judaism].

6. Make toasts properly. My husband and I take it in turns: if a person needs to leave while most of the guests are still sitting at the table, one of us stays with the guests, and the other sees the person off. We express our gratitude that the guest shared Shabbat with us. It is not customary to watch a person leave, so as not to embarrass anyone: we close the door “without long goodbyes”. On one side of our stairwell there is lift, and on the other a staircase. On Shabbat we don’t use the lift, but it’s up to the guest to decide how to leave.

7. In a situation when a guest has been there for a long time, remember that the goal of hospitality is not the personal comfort of the hosts, but of the guests who have come to visit. Perhaps the person feels unhappy and needs to talk to people. This need is just as important for people as food! When you hear that a guest is hungry, you lay the table and feed them, don’t you? There are people who also have a spiritual hunger. When they come to a family, they start to melt and enjoy the family warmth and hearty conversation.

8. We also try to organize guests according to their groups of interests. If we realize that our guests have a good understanding of Halakha, we may raise profound topics at the table, discuss a chapter of the Torah in detail and hold a dialogue.

When I asked Google if the Mellon family was “Jewish”, it took me to a web site and read I the following at the bottom of: http://www.overlordsofchaos.com/html/jewish_conspiracy_45.html

The man was Andrew Mellon (1855-1937), who was at the time Secretary of the Treasury and Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mellon was privy to the hidden agenda to bring the American economy to its knees as commanded by the International Banking Cartel, the Invisible Money Power, in which the Rothschilds stand supreme.

The Great Depression was a premeditated attack on the ordinary American, the middle class especially, orchestrated by the Cult of Evil and its lackeys in banking and government, one of whom was Mellon. The target of this attack was the ordinary hard-working person, the individual spirits who grafted to secure for themselves and their families a degree of prosperity that guaranteed peace of mind. The individuals who lived the "American dream" and were the bastions of the free enterprise ethos and who collectively were the men and women who built America. These enterprising individuals were the prey of the wicked and evil men who dream of a global empire in which this initiative and spirit are an anathema. In short, they, the International Bankers, Invisible Money Power, wanted to liquidate the bourgeoisie, the middle class of America.

The "worthy people" Mellon alludes to are the Wall Street Bankers, the American arm of the international banking hydra that is milking society dry. Moreover, when the deliberately created collapse of the American economy occurred the middle class that had worked so hard to create what wealth it had, were ground under the heel of the international usurer who went about buying up America.

As the depression grew ever worse, prices and values kept going down and money became increasingly scarce. House prices plummeted and money had almost disappeared from the American scene and panics swept across the land. In the contrived chaos the usurer and his minions swept across America, buying up property whose prices had collapsed to almost nothing. The International Bankers had bought America on the cheap: they had bought it at ten cents on the dollar. In short, the American people had been deliberately, premeditatedly, completely, denuded of their savings and labours by the monster that is the "banking system."

The sinister role of the Federal Reserve System in this operation was great indeed. Since the group of seven men on the Federal Reserve Board, as well as the directors of the twelve Federal Reserve Regional Banks, could have ended the "Great Depression" in two weeks if they had a mind to do so. Nevertheless, they did not because their agenda was not to preserve the "American dream" but to destroy it. They wanted to exacerbate the depression to accomplish long-range objectives that were concealed from the American people.

The International Banking system was created to bring about controlled economic cycles of "boom and bust" that operates for one purpose and one purpose only. To liquidate the middle class whenever they become successful enough to approach independence, economic independence free of the usurer. The raison d'être of the banking system is to provide the means and wherewithal whereby the Cult of Evil can enslave humanity. The role of the Rothschilds in this move to enslave the world is pivotal, for without them the movement towards global tyranny would be have been somewhat different. The apparent disappearance of the Rothschilds from the public arena and their rehabilitation as "private bankers" of integrity and good reputation and as major altruists to numerous "good causes" is a masterful job of deception. They may have ducked from publicity but they most certainly have not gone away nor has their power diminished.

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Look at my map for the poverty ridden Mississippi Gulf Coast tourism environment which is following Atlantic City’s lead of growing a tourism bureau to control the market in the interest of a few through corrupt leadership on the Board, starting with the 37^th largest American Bank’s founder’s grandson, that serves as President of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Regional Convention and Visitors Bureau, managing $4 million dollars to promote business and the two best known family attractions lost sales this year and saw their greatest year to date before the first casino in 1992.  Visit www.mississippigulfcoastmap.com to view our Mississippi Gulf Coast map on Facebook.

Do your part.  Please cut and paste www.tourismguru.blogspot.com in an email and send it to BPsettlement@senate.ms.gov with a message of confidence to President Elect Donald Trump and my team actually knowing what we are doing.  Ask Mississippi to “Tithe 10%” of the BP settlement money to Tourism Business Solutions to repair the damage caused by the corruption of Keynesian Theory applied to marketing management, exposed in this blog.  Thank You.  Please make comments.

Writing my book in  August 2005, unpublished....till now.

Mississippi The Hospitality State ???

As a fifth generation local to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Hank has seen the most insanity of any capitalist system as government agents get involved every aspect of tourism industry, leaving the people in business confused each year as to how to reach their consumers and advance their business. Since Mississippi is currently considered the highest in public corruption and the lowest in per capita income, it seems easy to believe that there is something fishy goin' on down here.

In the 1970s, the tourism industry saw a major loss of business to the independent artists and entrepreneurs, as national chain hotels were becoming more and more popular along the coastal areas. Many of these new accommodations were buiilt on other land that was completely distant from the primary attractions.

While the construction of the interstate was connecting Louisiana to Alabama only a few miles north of Mississippi's coastline, Alabamas economy took off like a rocket. The locals were hearing complaints from tourists that had accidently discovered their attraction and were always hearing about better tourism on the Alabama Coast. The average length of stay and repeat visitation rate had fallen dramatically. The economy became so depressed, that the people voted in the Harrison County Tourism Commission (HCTC) with a 3% tax and spend program in 1979.

For the next 11 years this economic and social depression was still plaguing the independent business owners as national chains kept popping up with great success. Throughout the 1980s, Mississippians could not give away condos at cost, while they were selling for exceptionally high profits in Alabama and Florida. As more unique artists and entrepreneurs opened and closed, the poor remained poor.

The people became so depressed that they voted in casinos as their cure for their future in the early 1990s for Hancock County and Harrison County. By 1993 small businesses were crying foul against the casino industry, which had increased the local hotel occupancy rate to near 100% in summer season and more than doubled occupancy in the three other seasons.

As Hank had interviewed thousands of tourists aboard Mississippi's best known attraction (Ship Island Ferry) before the arrival of the first casino, he sensed that something was wrong as so many tourists accused Mississippi Gulf Coast of false advertising about historic sites, attractions, museums, seafood, etc. Those tourists would always leave thanking Hank for "making their vacation". His boss was astounded. At the time, Hank thought nothing of it.

After hearing those tourism complaints, Hank got more involved and attended every Hotel/Motel meeting and represented Ship Island Ferry with his mother who acted as the marketing director. He learned a great deal about the industry and how easily this audience could be mislead by poor marketing leadership ideas.

To pay for his research, Hank
Hank invented an interactive touch screen to provide high quality multi-media while gathering research about the tourism industry. He was exceptionally successful to selling independent small businesses and accommodations with this direct link to ten touch screens which printed coupons and directions as well as provide cellular link to golf courses and accommodations.

Because Americans over-support Keynesian Economics Theory and Accommodations Taxes, we are poor!

Another "Deplorable" from Mississippi Sees A Trump Card

In the 1990s I was like many distraught and completely disappointed voters of today.  I paced the floor or drove the streets feverishly, chain-smoking generic cigarettes, self-medicating with Bush Light, with a mind racing - wondering and scared my future in tourism marketing and for the future of mankind’s wealth and environment if the traveler is to be so manipulated for corporate profit of the petroleum and automobile industries over a moral commitment to guest friendship/hospitality in America.  Since then, China has become the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th largest oil companies (combined revenues of $1,252.101 billion in 2015’s low gas prices); Saudi Aramco ranks 1st ($478 billion) while Exxon Mobil ranks 5th ($268.9 billion), Valero ranks 12th ($130.84) with Chevron 14th, Marathon 21st.  The three largest consumers of gasoline 2012 are: USA = 8,682.21;  China = 1,908.06; Japan = 977.83. The efficiency of direct and proximity marketing by a smart phone replacing the advertising and destination marketing of Yellow Pages for many products or services should show great reductions in petroleum demand, but current results in America are baffling, while corporate marketing strategies and tourism tax managers continue to deceive the traveler.  Travel tax managers are constantly introducing new products in the advertising mix to confuse the productivity of leadership of capitalism and free enterprise for efficiency of each marketing dollar, resulting in more pollution by automobiles. The National Highway Act of 1956 yielded great opportunity for real estate investors, such as the Mellon investors’ Gulf Oil, and foreign oil company’s owners were masters of colonization of new land for the past 200 years+, and as interstate construction was being drawn and access routes to the beach were determined).  Just like the RR tycoons of American history, they bought the land, brought in the tracks with government money, and built an economy out of raw land; oil companies and automobile companies went into the hospitality/ real estate industry and manipulated the travelers in RR communities/downtown like Mississippi Gulf Coast through government subsidized economics-marketing strategies and the control of tourism taxes.  This was a huge stretch on Keynesian economic theory.  America’s first accommodations tax originated in Detroit!!!. Gulf partnered with Holiday Inn in 1963, built in Mississippi in 1967, created many American’s first credit card for financing travel as their locations encouraged financing of behaviors, such as shopping, dining and entertainment of the traveler to require automobile transportation.   Since 1956, Gulf Oil and many foreign oil companies in non-mineral rich land south of I-10, family tourism seen greater prosperity in Mobile, Baldwin and Escambia counties and hotels or hotel management companies in Mississippi. In 1990, IRS vs Gulf Oil broke the notion of Seven Sisters, since this American company, Gulf Oil Company produced more income in the real estate ownership and tourism management business than in the oil business.  This is called Vertical Integration! (Watched for closely in America).  Much of that land and others associated with colonization land grabs and national chain-ism that came with highways in America is securely traded in the assets in the London Stock Exchange (“The Financial Center of the World’), where the 8th ranked British Petroleum’s Int. Mkt. V.P. and Int. Mkt. consultant to 6th ranked Royal Dutch Shell (combined $487.8 Billion) explained “who really owns America’s future” to me and 7 other International Marketing students in 1990, followed by Margaret Thatcher’s plans for the release of a 100 year lease expiring and colonization of Hong Kong were taught.  Did you know that Motel 6 is French owned? Ain’t that strange!  Hmmm. Please take a good look at the numbers that count for our economy and environment, and have an open mind to the concept of a hospitality professional of great success like President elect Donald Trump, hiring of a former CEO from Exxon, or a non-global warming theorist as director of EPA (pure capitalism is the perfect solution), and a former governor of Texas that can’t justify the crap that comes out of government over-regulation of efficiency and productivity of the competitive marketplace.  To understand that he may offer hope to the independent small business owners, and wages of local employees, is to know that he has probably never dared open a hotel in a neighborhood that offered no walking to shopping, dining, attractions or entertainment or hospitality opportunity.

BP Settlement Proposal

December 1, 2016

Dear Mississippi Government:

I am so grateful to the Mississippi government that made my education in Mississippi affordable and superior to any Ivy league school when it comes to tourism marketing, management and economic development. After returning from USM’s Austrian and British Studies Abroad in 1990, other students flocked to my desk in the library to better understand the world of marketing management. By hiring a new tourism company listed on the Budapest Stock Exchange for 6 months, growing from $3 to $77 per share, I learned a great deal about the economic benefits of the sharing of a community’s wealth with the stranger/tourist in Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Dresden, E. and W. Berlin 1990 (as the Wall fell). Note: Hungary is a new, free and Non-Rothschild Banking country.

Under a blooming cherry tree, among 7 other students, I learned from a Parliamentarian and the founder of the Green Party while she ran for President of Austria; The Sr. VP of Austrian Bank taught me how to recognize money laundering, post Reaganomics; In E. Europe I learned the economic promise of freedom from control of the market by a communist government and the long term mental depression they were overcoming from the suppression of freedom. I now look back and ask with such disdain, “Have I ever experienced freedom in Mississippi in my 52 years? What are the values of my political party? Does the other party have better morals?

In London, BP’s International Marketing VP and consultant to Royal Dutch Shell, Ray G. Wiltshire, taught me how to think marketing and world affairs only one month before the dissolving of the Seven Sisters beginning with IRS vs. Gulf Oil, Co. because they owned more real estate assets than petroleum claims on their properties. This included $$ Billions of dollars in tourism, commercial and residential real estate in Mobile, Baldwin, and Escambia counties as well as national chain hotels in Mississippi, managed by foreigners of the state, undermining the concept of hospitality from locals. British Petroleum acquired all the land developed and to be developed, associated with the petroleum marketing strategies related in Mississippi and abroad, as America seems powerless to defend against this colonizing of America, as our downtown becomes abandoned, and unemployment is rampant. Travelers maximize gasoline expenses in our market and refuse to walk the downtown anymore.

Since 1963, Holiday Inn partnered with Gulf Oil to colonize up and coming interstates to mass market transportation by travelers by placing brochure racks from AL and FL in the MS hotels they own since 1967, under the name Gulf Shores, Inc., they raped millions of travelers from enjoyment of the State of Mississippi and destroyed all efforts of hospitality by locals, as our horrible international reputation continues to make first impressions of the people of Mississippi who are traveling to other places.

In 1979, the year of Hurricane Frederic, Mississippi created its first tourism tax and worked to cover up the dysfunction as petroleum banks, national chains, and beverage companies maximized profits and served on tourism boards, in the poorest, most obese and most corrupt state in America, while entrepreneurs went crazy trying to figure out how to capitalize in the tourism market, with this false stimulant in place, constantly making random and unintelligent decisions for the people that voted for the future of their children. While I saved more money selling Nelson Bibles in the Carolinas in summers of 1989 or 1991 than ever working a year in Mississippi as a leader that developed commerce to downtown Pass Christian since 3/94, Bay St. Louis and Ocean Springs in 10/1996; hired by Gulfport in 7/05, it seems quite evident that the voters in Mississippi don’t read the Holy Bible or have knowledge of how Jesus rescued Mathew from a tax station that only taxed tourists in chapter 9. In Chapter 10, Jesus promised his disciples God’s wrath “Worse than Sodom and Gomorrah” for in-hospitality. As my elected officials, did anybody other than me tell you that voting to make tourism taxes permanent in 2005 was inherently evil and unjustified, the year of Hurricane Katrina.

With the only state in the South losing population under your care, do you think keeping the tourism taxes is tolerable by the voters? I have written a book ready for publish at any time that details the misbehavior and wrong decisions made against the traveler, before and after Katrina. Since the politicians in Jackson do not research the tax records of my clients before and after my company is hired, they remain uninformed by self serving bureaucrats that lie to the public officials and public with great deception of whose responsible for the economic ups and downs. Please go to www.mgctourism.com or www.tourismguru.blogspot.com “Where were they thinking” or “Downtown Development School is Now Open” (dated 2 weeks before Katrina) to know we can fix this problem.

The Mississippi Gulf Coast tourism leaders, including the Gaming Board, did not make any friends with Donald Trump, by refusing his capitalistic venture that promised direct cooperation with my business and all of my clients in four downtown communities, just as Grand Casinos had employed my concierge desk displays to sell local hospitality. At the same time, they welcomed Lee Iococa and his backing. Currently, IP and Silver Slipper are the only two casinos that offer any hospitality, like a brochure rack in their hotel lobby to show any value to the living in South Mississippi. Unless this whole fiasco is a money laundering operation in Mississippi, who only taxes the gaming revenues 7%, while Louisiana taxes 18%, this behavior by our casino hotels is a planned forcing of poverty on us all. Is it just coincidence, or biblical justice, that the stockholders of MS Greatest Gaming success/true hospitality story, GRAND was bought out be a foreign company before God’s wrath. Unlike most local casinos, Trump wanted windows to view the coast and a LOCAL brochure rack to support the local economy!

Proposal

1. Pass a law that stops petroleum owned, foreign and domestic, accommodation in the RV, Hotel, Motel from hosing Mississippi guests.

2. Eliminate all accommodations taxes. Any tax on tourists will be also made on locals and voted in by locals. Make this law.

3. Award Tourism Business Solutions $6,000,000 for Mississippi Gulf Coast and $20,000,000 to set up the communities Throughout the State with downtown redevelopment, as I can produce testimony of my past. Spend the rest rewarding grants for college to students with no discrimination bias features, except grades.

Thank you for your consideration.

Henry Ward

Tourism Business Solutions

2308 Arnold Street

Waveland, MS 39576

228-216-2217

Consultant@tourismeconomy.com

www.Mississippigulfcoastmap.com

Rebuilding Mississippi Beyond Petroleum Marketing

Many of His friends are still stressed out from all of the changes that are going on around them, as they slowly rebuild their lives after Katrina. Reading a book that tells of displacement and recovery can really inspire your future approach to rebuilding.

Hank strongly encourages reading “God Wants You To Be Rich” by Paul Zane Pilzer is all about changes and how capitalism will take care of itself, as creative entrepreneurs reinvent their approach to recovery from displacement. In our quest for economic alchemy, the best of us comes through in a capitalist country.

While Hank found the book very easy to read and inspirational, he was also inspired by his explanation of the predictions of economist Joseph Schumpeter’s work, “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, 1942” whereby he explained that when people feel economically displaced, they look to their government and vote in socialistic leadership. After a generation or two of dismal failures, the children and grandchildren turn back to limited government as vehement capitalists protesting the idealistic controls set by big government, and thereby pure capitalism is reborn stronger than ever.

Throughout the 1970s the entire tourism industry had felt displaced but had no idea who was to blame, so politicians voted in a 3% tourism penalty tax and spend program (Harrison County Tourism Commission) to help stimulate the economy beginning in 1979. As a result, profits increased for national chains hotels and only the national chain hotels. Throughout the 1980s, Mississippi investors could not give away a condo, while they sold like hot cakes in Florida and Alabama. As family tourism continued to be more displaced, locals finally voted in casinos as their solution twelve desperate years later.

The cause of all the family tourism displacement had everything to do with the leading national chain hotel owners’ desire to get the tourist to drive more on vacation and consider another destination where they had significant land and tourism holdings. No matter how much effort locals made to draw tourism to the area, most national chain accommodations in Mississippi Gulf Coast were marketing tourism to Florida, Alabama and Louisiana.

Until Hank traced so many property deeds of nation chain accommodations to domestic and foreign oil companies and other real estate investment companies, he couldn’t understand why our hotels were so willing to commit suicide to their own industry, year after year. While small businesses were blaming casinos in 1993, Hank discovered that over 90% of family tourism brochures in local hotels redirected tourists to attractions and shops in other states, rather that the local downtown. As a traveler, he knows this to be a national economic concern.

Americans burn exponentially more gasoline on vacation than we did before the energy efficient interstate system was built and have seen little results from CAFÉ legislation because oil companies own so much vertical integration in the tourism industry and are so involved in socialistically lead marketing campaigns that keep the locals displaced and the tourist constantly on the move. It’s time to take apart this marketing strategy by big oil companies, big government, a local advertising agency and other real estate developers as we refocus on our core capitalistic principals.


The Political Solutions of Hank the Tourism Alchemist

1. The federal government should outlaw the ownership or the financial backing of foreigner owned accommodations from any business in the sale or distribution of fuel or transportation companies.

2. The state government should seize all tourism penalty tax dollars and dissolve all government leadership programs of tourism and economics, and watch to locals come together around their Chamber and merchant associations to provide their own leadership campaigns.

3. Call Hank for an analysis of the best and least expensive approach to recovery.