HMMM��! Recent jury award to Florida smokers - $145,000,000,000 Number of hours jury spent in arriving at above amount - 5 Lawyers� share of award (estimate) - $50,000,000,000 1999 Compensation of Phillip Morris Chief Operating Officer - $5,200,000 Total Value of largest tobacco company (Philip Morris) - $73,052,000,000 Total Employees of Philip Morris � 137,000 Severance pay to CEO of Mattel after being fired - $55,000,000 A year of income at the US minimum wage - $10,300 Jury award to black woman falsely accused of shoplifting - $1,156,000 Percent of population of Bangladesh earning less than $1 per day - 29% Jury award to Hispanic parents of child killed in car accident - $256,000,000 Percent of Population of Guatemala earning less than $1 per day - 40% Jury award to helicopter pilot who was harassed by fellow officers - $5,000,000 Annual compensation to US soldier who loses foot, hand, and hearing in combat - $37,116 Annual salary of president of the United States - $200,000 Minimum annual salary in National Basketball Association - $272,500 Amount of Kevin Garnett�s NBA contract - $125,000,000 Amount of fee for leading American movie stars, per picture - $20,000,000 A year of income at the average hourly wage in US - $24,570 Starting salary of graduate from leading law schools - $140,000 Salary for US Congressman � $36,700 **************************** READ ALL ABOUT IT! For more stories of Victims Getting Rich see: http://theoutrage.com/library/vgr.html For more stories of Larcenous Litigators see: http://theoutrage.com/library/ll.html ------------------------------------- OUTRAGEOUS QUOTES! When I see someone who is making anywhere from $300,000 to $750,000, that�s middle class. - Representative Frederick Heineman (R, N.C.) explaining why his income was too low to qualify as �middle class.� My father taught me how to clean out hog waste with a shovel and hose. He taught me how to clear land with an ax. He taught me how to plow a steep hillside with a team of mules. He taught me how to take up hay all day in the hot sun and then, after a dinner break, go help the neighbors take up hay before the rain came and spoiled it on the ground. - Vice President Al Gore, who, as the sun of a wealthy US Senator, attended expensive private schools and Harvard College. In response to Gore�s comments, a real farmer�s son, Republican National Chairman Jim Nicholson, replied, �Mr. Vice-President, with all due respect, you�re shoveling a lot more of it right now than you ever did back then.� Both quotes from �The Stupidest Things Ever Said by Politicians� by Ross and Kathryn Petras. ------------------------------------- -- Kathleen The American elite ... is almost beyond redemption. Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush -- sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. --Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in "The Secret Life of Bill Clinton" <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
