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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>For those who care to know, I've included some data
regarding the Bureau and its agents' activities at the State Capitol and Port
Huron Vending Route Facilities during May and June, 2013, information that
someone was good enough to give me. What's happening on the I-94 Port
Huron route is very interesting. By setting the starting and ending
inventory to 0, the private company servicing this route is getting away with
charging all purchases, including starting inventory, to the cost of goods sold
and will get off with doing this each month. Us "low-life" blind licensees
are required (in theory at least) to show both a starting and ending inventory
figure in order to make the actual cost of goods sold available for
calculation.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Connie Zanger and her, uh companion Rob Essenberg,
say all of this is ok because the Company uses a system that accurately tracks
the cost of purchases and recognizes a par-based inventory system. While I
have no doubt that the system being used is of high quality, it is a management
tool and nothing more than that. What is done with the data it provides to
its user and the accuracy of the data that the system uses is under the
control of the system's user, who is ultimately responsible for the business and
what it reports to the outside world.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Just let most of us try to get away with claiming a
value of 0 for starting and ending inventory each month and see just how long it
takes for license revocation to begin. And please remember that Mr.
Essenberg, whose businesses prior to his current facility were either
subsidized by the former Commission or showed only modest income, is about
to be named as Director of the new Business Assistance and Development Program
(BADP), if he hasn't been secretly appointed already.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Still not blogging about the BEP or anything
else,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Joe Sontag</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=suncat0@gmail.com href="mailto:suncat0@gmail.com">Joe Sontag</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 31, 2013 11:47</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Capitol and Port Huron stuff</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Here it is, including a text version I generated
for the I-94 route and the Capitol for May. I have a untagged pdf of the
Port Huron stuff, but it's a scanned or damaged document.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Our BEP at work.</FONT></DIV>
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