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of Nashville, Tenn.; and Jose P. Garcia-Guillen, 35, of Decatur, Ala. They were pronounced dead at the scene. Deputy Alcorn County Coroner Josh Hodum said the men were traveling westbound in a full-size pickup when the vehicle overtook an 18-wheeler from behind. A fourth person in the pickup, Raul Cabrera, 35, of Decatur, Ala., was flown to the Regional Medical Center in Memphis, Tenn., with serious injuries. MHP said it appeared Ran-

Three men died early Monday morning when their pickup truck collided with the rear of an 18-wheeler in western Alcorn County. The crash happened about 5:15 a.m. at the intersection of U.S. Highway 72 and County Road 747 in western Alcorn County near the Tippah County line. The Mississippi Highway Patrol identified the fatalities as Arnoldo Moreno, 29, of Corinth; Juan A. Estrada, 35,

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dle Walker, 31, of Decatur, Ala., turned from County Road 747 to go westbound on U.S. 72 in a 1998 Peterbilt when the 2006 GMC Sierra pickup driven by Moreno collided with the rear of the semi. The Union Center Volunteer Fire Department used extrication equipment to free the subjects from the pickup. MHP said the truck driver had minor injuries. Moreno and Estrada wore seat belts while Garcia-Gullen and Cabrera were unbuckled, MHP said.

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The Alcorn County Board of Supervisors has scheduled a meeting for Wednesday morning to swear in John C. Ross Jr. as a temporary justice court judge. He will serve as justice court judge post 2 in the absence of the current officeholder, Jimmy McGee. The board’s agenda on Monday included receipt of documentation of the Mississippi

Supreme Court’s mandate in the case of the Mississippi Commission on Judicial Performance v. Jimmy McGee. The court imposed a suspension of 270 days without pay effective on the date of issuance of the court’s mandate in the complaint against the judge. Ross is currently municipal judge for the cities of Corinth and Farmington and a member of the board of directors of the Corinth Area Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Recent college grad opens law practice K-C road

gets 30-day extension

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(Editor’s Note: The following is the first in a series of stories on young entrepreneurs, recent college graduates working to build their lives and businesses in a time of widespread adversity and economic uncertainty.)

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Joe Wallace is 25 years old. In September, the Biggersville High School graduate started his own law firm in Alcorn County, four months after finishing law school at Ole Miss and two months after passing bar exams in Mississippi and Tennessee. Now, in the midst of a tough economy felt by almost everyone, Wallace is juggling responsibilities, learning the day-today realities of his profession and following his own personal convictions while working to establish his law practice. “It’s different opening a law office. Before, I’ve worked for anyone else as a lawyer, but I feel like I’ve been prepared by other life experiences,” said Wallace, whose father was in law enforcement and mother worked as a court personnel administrator and once ran for justice court judge. “I’ve been around the law all my life, in one way or another.” During the summers while Wallace was in law school, he worked as a clerk for a prominent firm in the Magnolia State’s capital city. This experience gave him a glimpse of the pressures, commitments and rewards of working in a large law office, and he planned to take a job with the firm.

explained. “You’re not just giving them your personal freedom and your body. You might be giving them your soul.” Starting his practice In September, after working all summer to save money for overhead and startup expenses, he founded the Wallace Law Firm, located in a modest office just outside the Corinth city limits he rents from longtime friend (and veteran Corinth attorney) Danny Lowrey.

The contractor for the Kimberly-Clark industrial access road is getting an extension as the project nears completion. Eutaw Construction requested 90 working days, but the Alcorn County Board of Supervisors on Monday agreed to a contract extension of 30 working days. Johnny Crotts of Cook Coggin Engineers said the project is 88 percent complete, and the 300-working-day contract time expired in late October. The two primary reasons cited for needing more time are delays that occurred with getting a lake pumped out south of Farmington Road and the installation of geofabric in an area that did not meet the density requirement. Chuck Smith of Eutaw said he believes the project can still be substantially complete by Thanksgiving if weather is favorable. He said all of the curbs are complete, and 16 driveway aprons are still to be done along with the final round of paving, which will be completed by APAC. “We tried to get them to come this past week, but they were trying to get finished where they were at,” said Smith. “They want to move in this one time and finish it all. They’re scheduled the latter part of this week and all next week to pave.” The extension is also subject to approval by the state aid office. The new road is nearly 5 miles in length stretching from U.S. 72 to Kendrick Road. In another road matter, paving is ex-

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Corinth’s Joe Wallace is a 2011 college graduate beginning his career — in a troubled economy when many with degrees are struggling to find work — as an attorney at the helm of his own law practice. “It’s the standard story there. It’s a big firm, pays a lot, but they work you to the bone. They put all sorts of incentives in your face, like five-year partner track and you make a lot more money then, but the only thing is, you’re trading a lot of who you are and your individuality and individual freedom,” he said. After his second summer clerking, the Jackson firm ran into economic troubles and Wallace was not offered the job. “It ended up being a blessing they didn’t hire me,” Wallace

said. “I would have been doing it just for the money — and that’s not a good reason to do something unless you’re flat broke.” Working as an attorney for the large firm would also have been contrary to Wallace’s compassion for people on the lower end of the financial ladder. “I’ve always felt more comfortable if I was an advocate for the little guy. They did some work for what I would call the little guy, but most of their work was big defense, big asbestos defense and that sort of stuff,” he

Rotary, newspaper kick off annual basket giveaway BY BOBBY J. SMITH bjsmith@dailycorinthian.com

The Corinth Rotary Club and the Daily Corinthian have kicked off the fundraising drive for the annual Christmas Basket giveaway. The program collects money to purchase food items that will help feed financially disadvantaged families during the Christmas holidays. “We appreciate the community’s past partnership, and because of our current economic conditions, we anticipate a huge need,” said Reece Terry, publisher of the Daily Corinthian. “We think this is an excellent opportunity to help those in the community who are less fortunate.” Ronnie Sleeper, chairman of the 2011 Basket Committee, said organizers hope to be able to provide 1,000 baskets this year, which is the 16th year the Corinth Rotary Club and the local newspaper have partnered for this program. “We’re hoping to give away 200 more boxes this year,” said Sleep-

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Long Wholesale owner Randy Long (right) shows Corinth Rotary Club/Daily Corinthian Christmas Basket Drive Chairman Ronnie Sleeper some of the food products that will be in the food baskets to be given away on Saturday, Dec. 10, at Crossroads Arena. er. “We’re depending on the community to make the effort — and

we have a lot of faith in the community.”

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Daily Corinthian’s office at 1607 South Harper Road and on Page 3 of the newspaper until the deadline date. The deadline for applicants to sign up for baskets is 4 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 18. The typical Christmas Basket contains about $35 wholesale worth of food staples, including canned goods, a whole canned chicken, loaves of bread, canned fruit, flour, sugar, meal and other food products from Long Wholesale. Sleeper praised the volunteer efforts made by local high schools to put together the boxes and distribute them and the fundraising contributions of local churches and other community-minded groups. “This is truly a community effort, and the need this year happens to be greater than it’s been in a long while,” he said. The Christmas Baskets will be assembled on Packing Night, Please see BASKET | 7

On this day in history 150 years ago The U.S.S. Jacinto boards the British mail packet Trent on the high seas and arrests Confederate agents James Mason and John Slidell. The seizure from a neutral ship sparks an international incident and nearly leads to war with England. By Tom Parson, NPS Ranger

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WALLACE: Young attorney focused on building good reputation, staying afloat rather than making money CONTINUED FROM 1

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve known Danny for about 15 years. His door is al-

ways open if I need help, and he is an invaluable resource,â&#x20AC;? Wallace said. Now he is working every

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day to manage his business and provide legal counsel for his clients. Knowing beforehand there would be bills due and student loans to repay, Wallace strives to center his focus on the quality of his work and the relationships he is forming with clients â&#x20AC;&#x201D; building trust with the people he represents at this crucial early stage of his career. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stress over it much,â&#x20AC;? Wallace said of the financial side of his law practice. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just one thing I knew was part of it unless you

grew up with a silver spoon in your mouth and your parents pay for all your college, especially if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a demanding field of study, something like law school.â&#x20AC;? He is starting his career in a time of financial worries â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for Corinth as well as the nation as a whole â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and seeing every day how the waves of hardship made by factory shutdowns and other economic downturns emanate throughout a community, from the workers to the business owners. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the biggest prob-

lems here is for people like my brother, who have seen their incomes cut in half because one of the major plants shuts down,â&#x20AC;? Wallace said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The need for legal help doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go away, but when peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s means to pay for legal help is cut in half thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to have an effect on a job like this. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to have an effect on the entire economy in this town. Every business person takes a hit when some major factory leaves town â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all in this together.â&#x20AC;? While building his practice

in a time of widespread money-woe Wallaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first objective is not to pile up treasure as quickly as possible, but to establish himself in the community as an attorney who provides a quality service for his clients. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to make a lot of money right now,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to because I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any kids depending on me or anything, so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just trying to keep my head above water and make sure Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a good reputation â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that my works speaks for itself is the main thing.â&#x20AC;?

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Deaths Col. Edwin L. Atkins

LAFAYETTE, La. — Graveside services and military rites were held on Friday, Nov. 4, 2011, at Fountain Memorial Cemetery Lafayette for Colonel Edwin L. Atkins, U.S.A.F. (Ret’d). He died Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011, at the age of 94 after an eight year struggle with Alzheimer’s. Col. Atkins was living at Cornerstone Village South in Lafayette at the time of his death. Rev. Thomas Trees, of the Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Lafayette will officiate. Pallbearers include Brett Hall, Gene Cooper, John Cooper, Fabian Patin, Scott Fishback and Toby Talbot. There will be no visitation prior to the graveside service. The second child of the late Eugene and Kate Hardin Atkins, Ed was born on July 8, 1917, in Alcorn County. After growing up in rural Mississippi, Ed enlisted in the military in 1942. Due to his intuitive mind, strong work ethic and intelligence, his talents were recognized and he was asked to attend Officer’s Training School where he later graduated as a 2nd Lieutenant. Ed quickly moved up in rank as he served his country in the Air Force during World War II, the Korean Conflict and the Vietnam War. His military accomplishments and awards include numerous World War II medals and commendations, three Commendation Medals for Outstanding Supply Command, two Bronze Stars and the Legion of Merit Award. During their 30 years of travel within the military, including three foreign assignments, Ed and his wife, June, became antique collectors with a particular interest in antique clocks. When Ed retired from the Air Force in 1972, he and June opened an antique clock shop in Ft. Walton Beach, Fla., which remained an active business until 1989. In addition to clocks, Ed loved singing. He particularly loved singing for the Lord and sang in every choir in every church his family attended throughout their military assignments. As a young man, Ed sang in a country music quartet in Mississippi. After retirement, he sang in Barbershop choruses and quartets in Ft. Walton Beach. For two decades, growing Camellias was another significant hobby for Ed and June. Ed was extremely active in the Camellia Growers Association as a judge and participant at various Camellia shows throughout the South and won hundreds of ribbons and trophies for his exceptional blooms. He propagated and registered many new varieties of Camellias, naming each original variety after his wife, daughters and granddaughters. When Ed and June left their home in Florida to move to Lafayette, La., they gave hundreds of their treasured Camellia plants that grew in their yard in greenhouses to “Camellia friends” from all over the South. Ed leaves a legacy of service, loyalty and love for his country, family and friends throughout the world. He was an exceptional man and will be deeply missed. Col. Atkins is survived by his beloved wife of 67 years, June Jarrell Atkins of Lafayette, La.; his three daughters, Anne Patlin and her husband, Fabian, Stephanie Stanley and her husband, Larry, and Dr. Nancy Atkins. Surviving grandchildren include Brooke Fishback, Amanda Talbot, William Hall, Brett Edwin Hall, Daniel Stanley and Rachael Stanley. Other survivors include seven great-granchildren; two siblings, Sarah Cooper of Pensacola, Fla., and Lawrence Atkins of Camden, Tenn.; and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents; and his older sister, Eugenia Winner of Alexandria, Va. Ed’s wife and daughters extend deepest thanks for the kind and devoted staff at Cornerstone South in Lafayette. These loving individuals gently cared for Ed for the past three years. His family also thanks Hospice of Acadiana, who supported Ed and his family through his last days with quiet compassion. The family’s journey was eased by their kindness and presence. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Col. Atkins’ name to Hospice of Acadiana, 2600 Johnston St., Ste 200, Lafayette, LA, 70503, the Alzheimer’s Association at 2605 River Road, New Orleans, LA, 70121 or your favorite charity. Fountain Memorial Funeral Home & Cemetery of Lafayette, (337) 981-7098, 1010 Pandora Street, Lafayette, LA, is in charge of arrangements.

Anna Joslin

Anna H. Joslin, 86, of Corinth, died Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011, at Dogwood Assisted Living. She was a member of Indian Springs Methodist Church, where she played the piano for over 50 years. Her favorite hobby was quilting, which she had been doing since she was 12 years old. Funeral services will be Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011, at 2 p.m. at McPeters Funeral Directors with Bro. Rick Wells officiating. Visitation will be Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011, from 10 a.m. until service time. Burial will follow in Indian Springs Methodist Church Cemetery. Survivors include one granddaughter, Linda Joslin Parson (Larry) of Michie, Tenn.; three great-grandchildren, Lacy, Logan and Laura Lee Parson of Michie, Tenn.; and one brother, G.H. Hall (Jean) of Alabama. Mrs. Joslin was preceded in death by her parents, Van Houston and Vernila Isabell Bonds Hall; her husband, Lee Dewey Joslin; her son, Jerry Joslin; one sister, Virginia Whiteside; and one brother, Willis Hall. Condolences may be made at mcpetersfuneraldirectors. com.

Jeff Rhodes

Jeff Rhodes, 50, of Corinth, died Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011, at his residence after a brief illness. He was born Sept. 17, 1961, to the late Nina Anne Biggers Rhodes and Lex Ray Rhodes Sr. He was the president of Rainbow International, a subsidiary of General Construction Services of Memphis, Tenn. He was a graduate of Biggersville High School, Northeast Mississippi Community College and Mississippi State University, where he majored in Construction Engineering. He was a member of First Baptist Church. He loved his family and enjoyed hunting and football. Funeral services are set for 10 a.m. today at First Baptist Church with Rev. Dennis Smith officiating. Burial will follow in New Hope Church Cemetery in Biggersville. Visitation was held Monday at McPeters Funeral Directors. Survivors include his wife, Mimi Rhodes; three daughters, Meloney, Julia and Della Rhodes; his father, Lex Rhodes Sr.; his brothers, Lex Rhodes Jr. and Matt Rhodes (Missy), all of Biggersville; nieces, Ashley Rhodes, Madeline Rhodes and Sarah Newman; nephew, Tyler Newman; mother-in-law, Janie Pulido; brother-inlaw, James Pulido (Lexi); sister-in-law, Caroline Newman (Daryl); aunts, Jane Chamblee (Joe), Ann Rhodes and Dorothy Lipscomb. Mr. Rhodes was preceded in death by his mother, Nina Anne Biggers Rhodes; and grandparents, Nina and Harry Lee Biggers, and Molly and Elmer Rhodes. Pallbearers will be Tim Huggins, Bill Brawner, Frank Brinkley, Lamar Harris, James Pulido, Daryl Newman, Mark Shipman and Tyler Newman. Memorials may be made to New Hope Cemetery Fund - 151 County Road 420 Corinth, MS 38834 Condolences may be made at mcpetersfuneraldirectors.com

Josie Ann Barnes

SELMER, Tenn. — Funeral services for Josie Ann Barnes, 88, are set for 11 a.m. today at Shackelford Funeral Directors of Selmer, Tenn., with burial at Henry Cemetery in Corinth. Mrs. Barnes died Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011, at McNairy Regional Hospital in Selmer, Tenn. Born Aug. 20, 1923, in McNairy County, Tenn., she retired from General Electric. She was a member of Fourth Street Church of Christ. She was preceded in death by her husband, Chester A. Barnes; her parents, Mack

Selmer and Rosa Dea (Wren) Wilmeth; a sister, Virginia Davis; and two brothers, Etheridge Wilmeth and Mack Wayne Wilmeth. Survivors include a sister, Maxine King (Arnold) of Corinth. Jeremy Weekley will officiate.

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service for Harold Loyd Burrow, 70, is set for 2 p.m. Saturday at Corinthian Funeral Home. Mr. Burrow died Monday, Oct. 31, 2011, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Born July 14, 1941, he retired from Cornwell Well Service. He was preceded in death by his parents, John and Ruby Burrow; two brothers, Lavoid Burrow and Harvell Burrow; and sister, Glenda Mavis Stacy. Survivors include one daughter, Ramona Burrow of Memphis, Tenn.; one brother, Wayne Burrow of Walnut; two sisters, Eva James and Jewell Derrick, both of Walnut; and three grandchildren, Jerod Burrow, Crystal Burrow and Alana Burrow. The family will officiate the service.

Jo Jobe

Funeral services for Jo Kate Jobe, 78, are set for 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at Memorial Funeral Home Chapel with burial at Forrest Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Jobe died Friday, Oct. 7, 2011, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Iuka. She was a housewife and a member of the Eastern Star. She was of the Methodist faith. She was preceded in death by her husband, Billy Fred Jobe; one son, Gary Dale Jobe; five sisters; and one brother. Survivors include her two sisters-in-law, Frances Jobe of Corinth, and Margie Jobe of Southaven; two special nieces, Regenia Rickman and Teresa South; a special nephew, Joe Youngblood; and a host of other nieces and nephews. Visitation is Wednesday from 10 a.m. until service time. TISHOMINGO — Funeral services for Odis L. Ferrell, 76, were held Monday at Tishomingo Baptist Church with burial at Tishomingo Cemetery. Mr. Ferrell died Friday, Nov. 4, 2011, at Magnolia Regional Health Center in Corinth. He was a dedicated and very active member of the Tishomingo Baptist Church, where he served as treasurer and on the Main-

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Cain flouts cardinal rules BY MICHAEL BARONE Herman Cain, beleaguered by charges of sexual harassment, was all over Washington last week — an odd choice of venue, considering that the Iowa precinct caucuses are just 58 days away and the New Hampshire primary 65. But as I learned when I sat next to him during a taping of Richard Carlson’s “Danger Zone” radio program, Cain seemed unfazed. In conversation before the taping he dismissed the controversy. “No documentation. No witnesses. And I didn’t cancel a single event this week.” Political scientist Jay Cost, in a post on the Weekly Standard blog, indicted Cain and all the other Republican candidates except Mitt Romney for breaking the rules of “the great game of politics.” “Yes, the political game as it is played in 2011 is terrible and is in need for major reforms,” he wrote. “But if you want to win, you need somebody who knows how to play it.” Cain isn’t buying that. He brags that he is an “unconventional candidate” with an “unconventional campaign” and an “unconventional message that is resonating around the country.” I tend to think the old rules still apply. But Cain’s current lead in the polls, maintained after the sexual harassment story broke last Sunday in Politico, suggests there may be something to his argument. One rule Cain has broken is that candidates have to spend a lot of time in Iowa and New Hampshire, making personal contact with voters. Cain hasn’t spent much time in the two first-in-the-nation states this year. Cain says he spent time there last year, and in 2011 he’s been communicating with voters nationally through new media on his trips to states with later primaries. There may be something to that. This year, voters have been getting to know potential and actual candidates through cable news and YouTube videos. YouTube videos made New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie a national celebrity and created a boomlet for his candidacy. He declined to run, but I can’t recall a similar groundswell for a governor of a mid-sized state. The cable news debates have attracted far larger audiences, probably heavily tilted to actual caucus-goers and primary voters, than debates in previous cycles, and the candidates’ performances have had an impact on voters (ask Rick Perry). Another old rule is that a whiff of scandal sinks a candidacy. But 79 percent of Republicans in this week’s ABC/Washington Post poll say that they don’t care about the charges against Cain. On talk radio and in the right blogosphere, many dismiss the charges as an unfair attack by liberal media. Over the past week, Cain has serially violated the old rule that you must respond to scandal charges definitively and consistently. In one of his Fox News appearances, he acknowledged that he was “unprepared” for the charges, though his campaign had 10 days’ notice of them. This has astounded conservative bloggers like Commentary’s Pete Wehner (“unbelievably amateurish campaign”) and The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin (“Cain seems intent on making the controversy worse”). I suspect Rubin is right when she says that Cain’s strength in polls last week does not represent voters’ final verdict on him. And his inconsistent stands on issues like abortion and ignorance that China already has nuclear weapons may still hurt him. But Cain’s stance as a non-politician who refuses to obey the rules of the great game of politics is at least momentarily a political asset in a year when opinion about conventional politicians of both parties is near an all-time low. This cycle feels like 1992, when Ross Perot zoomed ahead of George Bush and Bill Clinton in the polls and, despite leaving and re-entering the race in bizarre fashion, won 19 percent of the vote in November. I’m still inclined to think Cain’s support will evaporate sooner or later. But for a moment Friday, the thought occurred to me that I was sitting next to a future president of the United States. (Michael Barone, senior political analyst for The Washington Examiner, www.washingtonexaminer.com, is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor and a co-author of The Almanac of American Politics.)

Prayer for today Dear Lord, help us to answer with a willing yes when you have instructions for us, showing our love for you in quick and glad obedience. Amen.

A verse to share No eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the human heart conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him. — 1 Corinthians 2:9 (NRSV)

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Could Italy’s debt become ‘Arrivederci, Roma?’ Will popular democracy bring down the New World Order? A fair question. For Western peoples are growing increasingly reluctant to accept the sacrifices that the elites are imposing upon them to preserve that New World Order. Political support for TARP, to rescue the financial system after the Lehman Brothers collapse, is being held against any Republican candidate who backed it. Germans and Northern Europeans are balking at any more bailouts of ClubMed deadbeats. Eighty-one members of David Cameron’s party voted against him to demand a referendum on whether Britain should leave the European Union altogether, the worst Tory revolt ever against the EU. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou imperiled the grand bargain to save the eurozone by announcing a popular vote on whether to accept the austerity imposed on Greece, or default, and let the bank dominoes begin to fall. The threat faded only when Papandreou cancelled the referendum. But the real peril is Italy, No. 3 economy in the eurozone, with a national debt at 120 percent of gross domestic product. After the plan to save the eurozone was announced, interest rates on new Italian debt surged above 6 percent, with 6.5 regarded as unsustainable. When Papandreou announced his referendum, the

cost of Italian debt surged again. Should buyers of Italy’s debt go on strike, fearing a Rome dePat fault or writeBuchanan down, that is the end of the Columnist eurozone and potentially the end of the EU. But an even larger question hangs over Rome. Will Italy survive as one nation and one people? For the austerity demanded of Italy to deal with its debt crisis is adding kindling to secessionist fires in the north, where the Lega Nord of Umberto Bossi, third largest party in Italy, seeks to lead Lombardy, Piedmont and Veneto, with the cities of Turin, Milan and Venice, out of Italy into a new nation — Padania. The north has long resented Rome, Naples and Sicily, seeing them as lazier and less industrious. Bossi, who calls himself “Braveheart,” after the Scottish hero of the Mel Gibson movie, sees northern people as Celts who are ethnically different and separate from the rest of Italy. The Northern League belief that people of Southern Italy caused their debt crisis, bringing on austerity, mirrors the belief of much of Northern Europe that Italy and Greece do not deserve to be bailed out. As the north is also home to 60 percent of the immigrants who have poured into Italy — Gypsies from Romania, Arabs

from the Mahgreb and Middle East — Bossi’s party is aggressively anti-immigrant, as are the other surging populist parties of Europe. Americans who deplore the tough laws against illegal immigration in Arizona and Alabama might look to Italy, where the Northern League managed to have illegal entry into the country declared a felony. The League was also behind a new law calling for sending back tens of thousands of Arab Spring migrants who arrived on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa, which is closer to Africa than Italy. But while resentment against the south for alleged freeloading and causing the debt crisis is bringing the secession issue to a boil, demography may be the greater threat to the national future. Italy, says Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, president of the Italian Bishops Conference, is heading for “demographical suicide,” and the reason is a low birth rate caused by its “cultural and moral distress.” According to Italy’s National Office of Statistics, in 2009 the fertility rate of Italian women was 1.41 children per woman. This is only twothirds of what is needed simply to replace Italy’s existing population. Italy’s fertility rate has been below replacement levels for 35 years. By mid-century, Italy will be a nation with a birth rate that will have been below, at times far below, zero population growth for 75 years.

Italy’s birth rate in 1950 was almost twice its death rate. But the death rate equaled the birth rate in 1985, exceeds it today and will be approaching twice the birth rate by 2050. Italy is not only aging, with the median age of its population going from 43 today to 50 at midcentury, Italy is dying. If this does not change, what the world knows as Italy will not exist at the end of this century. Like other European nations, Italy faces an existential crisis. Her national debt is twice what the EU says is tolerable. She must undergo years of painful austerity to pay back what she has borrowed and spent. Yet a shrinking population of working age young and an expanding pool of seniors and aged to care for will make that increasingly difficult, and default on her debts increasing attractive, as it is today to the Greeks. The Northern League, seeing the south as the source of its troubles, will grow in appeal, as those troubles grow. If your debts are larger than your economy, your death rate exceeds your birth rate and every new generation will be one-third smaller than the previous one, what kind of future does your country have? The kind of future Italy faces. (Pat Buchanan is an American conservative political commentator, syndicated columnist, politician and broadcaster. He is author of “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?”)

Columnist gives primer on wealth, taxes In response to my now famous “the-class-war-is-overthe-rich-guys-won” column, a gentleman from Kentucky writes a rather snarky letter posing several piercing questions that I will now answer: Q: How much do we have to make to be “rich?” A: There’s no set number for richness. Generally, 250-grand a year is a good wage, but if you have four kids who expect to go to a good college, you are a long way from rich. If you’re single making the same wage, you at least have no trouble seeing rich from where you stand. If, on the other hand, your kids have escaped college and you live in a nice house and have a nice second house (and a boat) at a vacation retreat, and you belong to one of the better country clubs in town, and head waiters at the best restaurants know your name, you’re probably rich. If politicians want to have their picture taken with you, rather than the other way round, you are definitely rich. Q: What percentage of the nation’s revenue should the “rich” pay: 50 percent, 60, 95?

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A: That too is an impossible figure to quantify. Where do corporations fit in your tax world? Should Donald they be taxed Kaul too or should Other they, like GE Words last year, get off scot-free? If you filtered out all the tax breaks, unwarranted deductions, and subsidies available to the rich and corporate (the courts tell us that corporations are people too, you know), you’d have some idea of what aggregate income is in this country and could start allocating taxes justly. Right now we’re flying blind. Q: At what income level should people begin to contribute through taxation? A: This question assumes that poor people who don’t pay income taxes are untaxed. They aren’t. They pay Social Security taxes, gas taxes, property taxes (either directly or indirectly), and sales taxes. They are exempted from income taxes because they have so little income. That’s

why they call them “poor.” I’ll give you this, though: they don’t pay many luxury taxes. Q: How many “poor” people have ever hired someone or given someone a job? A: All of them. Every time they buy a bottle of milk, or purchase a lottery ticket for that matter, they contribute to the economy. When enough of them do it, somebody gets hired. (I’d be grateful if the Kentucky gentleman could point out a corporation that is “giving” people jobs. I thought people earned jobs.) Q: Name a corporation/ business that doesn’t factor taxes into the cost of doing business and therefore into what the public (including the poor) pays for their product or service. A: They all try to, but it’s harder than you think. Pricing is as much art as science; failure to master it is one of the chief factors that send young, promising firms into bankruptcy. Generally speaking, corporations charge as much as they think they can get away with. There’s some play in that number of course, and

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when taxes or labor costs or the costs of materials rise, they try to raise prices accordingly. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. But believe this, if a corporation can make a widget for $10 and sell it for $20, it will. And if it finds that it can sell that same widget for $100, it will do that too, regardless of taxes. It’s called capitalism. The issue that underlies these questions is the fairness of progressive taxation: making richer people pay more of their income in taxes than poorer people do. I think it fair, particularly in difficult waters, to ask the strongest in the boat to dip their oars a little deeper, to do more than their share in the interest of group survival. It’s not fair to ask sacrifices only from those least able to afford it simply because they have the least political power. Oh, and if you have any more questions, please send them to conservative newspaper columnist George Will. You’ll like his answers better. (OtherWords columnist Donald Kaul lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. otherwords. org)

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In tough economy, Toyota plant brings jobs BY HOLBROOK MOHR Associated Press

BLUE SPRINGS — Before Toyota came, Cassius Perry was struggling like many in this hilly, sparsely populated region of north Mississippi that’s shed thousands of furniture manufacturing jobs since the 1990s. The young father of three went to school to be a barber, but ended up working for a salvage company while he held out hope for something better. This year Perry landed good pay and health insurance when he went to work for a supplier to the sprawling new Toyota plant on the outskirts of the tiny town of Blue Springs. Hundreds have been hired, giving local leaders hope that their area will become another Southern automotive boomtown. The plant is finally set to begin production on Nov. 17, following more than a year’s worth of agonizing delays. “It changed my whole life around. I was struggling before I got this job. It made a difference for me, my family, my kids

and even my church. I can pay tithing now,” said Perry, 22. “The benefits make the difference. I don’t want to be 30 and stacked up in medical debt.” So far, about 1,250 Toyota employees are already building test cars at the plant, and the company expects to hire another 280 this year. More will come aboard in the future, and dozens of others are employed by suppliers. Production comes at a time when the future is uncertain for many in the state where unemployment has hovered above 10 percent. Excitement over the plant is palpable from the folding tables at the single store in Blue Springs to the halls of the Governor’s Mansion in Jackson. “It’s a Godsend to us,” said Mayor Jack Reed Jr. of Tupelo, the biggest city near the facility with 34,500 residents. “People around here certainly have a little more bounce in our steps now.” Officials from three counties spent years working to lure a car man-

ufacturer, watching as other southern communities have reaped the economic spoils of new plant openings. In the past decade, foreign carmakers that opened plants elsewhere have included Nissan in central Mississippi, Toyota in Texas, Kia in Georgia and Volkswagen in Tennessee. Gov. Haley Barbour went to Japan to court Toyota before the Blue Springs plant was announced in 2007, and state officials were glad to sign off on a $324 million incentive package. To illustrate what a car manufacturer can do for an area, Barbour cites a Toyota plant that opened in Georgetown, Ky. in the 1980s. “It literally changed that entire region of the state. It started with only a couple of thousand jobs and now has well over 5,000 jobs,” Barbour said in a telephone interview. “My point is, we’re just starting to see the effect Toyota will have on northeast Mississippi,” he said. Georgetown Mayor Everette Varney said the

Toyota plant has spurred steady growth in the Kentucky city since it was announced in 1985. The city’s population has nearly tripled since 1990 to 29,000 people, according to the U.S. Census. “Even in the downturn in the economy we experienced growth. Toyota, I mean, we just exploded,” Varney said. “They have been tremendous for this city.” Analysts say one reason the South is attractive to foreign automakers is because in right-to-work states that are common in the region workers can’t be forced to join unions if their co-workers unionize. Nice weather and proximity to customers in growing states are other factors. “They pay pretty good wages so there’s not much incentive to unionize. This is why the Southeast is just harvesting new

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jobs,” said Larry Rinek, a California-based consultant with Frost and Sullivan who works with major auto manufacturers and suppliers. The Mississippi plant sits at the edge of Blue Springs, a town of 200 that’s little more than a winding, hilly road lined with modest houses, a small post office and Gentry’s Grocery & Grill. The same locals sip coffee nearly every morning at Gentry’s, where mounted deer hang from the walls and Toyota is a favored conversation topic. The store is packed at lunch with automotive workers. “Things are rolling now,” owner Mike Gentry said recently.

Toyota has been working with the Mississippi Department of Employment Security to take job applications. MDES recently said that it has collected more than 41,000 applications for the plant, with applicants from all 82 Mississippi counties, 44 other states and Puerto Rico. Blue Spring’s leaders are studying ways to improve infrastructure, knowing they can’t lure suppliers and other spinoff businesses without sufficient sewer and water systems. A few miles southeast, rental units are in demand in the town of Sherman and investors have snapped up commercial property.

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