New marketing graduates ought to go directly to the governmental agencies to see if there was a need for marketing personnel of the type I described. I would speak to the human resources person to see how realistic it is for them to acquire someone who helps generate business in the province. They might suggest that encouraged foreign invested businesses have to do with an optimum business flow and a low overhead. If the market is large enough there would be a greater need and a smaller market would mean that marketing requirements are smaller.

Today we allow diverse businesses to spring up, but perhaps there are going to be more government controls in the future or affiliated agencies that will police new entrepreneurs. The security business line would be lucrative since that still seems to be a buzz word even tough someone can still find his way into the cockpit of an airline by observing what combination codes are used by airline personnel. Buying and installing security cameras and stations is also a business in itself, so city officials will probably weight the fact of whether or not to install street cameras in certain shopping areas or not.

I see an increased incorporation of security measures not because security is a real issue today; it has always been an issue at least since the cold war days.

I would not be in favour of disallowing someone to open up a business because he did not pay a security tax when he does not need the surveillance. I see that more jobs are going to be home based as more shopping will be done on-line but this is not going to replace going to the store as many people will still like to touch the real product. There may be more companies like ebay which will list merchandise and allow entrepreneurs to showcase their work with a relatively low overhead since they would not have to responsible for store rentals, stocking spaces or having to deal with the security measures needed for a real location. If anything the storeowners could start out as minimally sized shops that would advertise the essential and then refer people to their websites for the bulk of their merchandise.

There are a number of reason that help explain this declining percentages. One it that the European governments that are member of the consortium have contributed generously to the research and development needed to design and build state of the art equipment. A second is that these governments now purchase Airbus aircraft while in the past years their purchase are almost always from the U.S aircraft manufacturers. A third is that the U.S Government is cutting back on its own purchases of military aircraft, thus denying Boeing and McDonnell Douglas what used to be guaranteed orders as well as the funding for developing airplanes that would later be modified for commercial use. A fourth is that new aircraft must be researched and designed to replace the aging fleet now in existence worldwide. The cost of bringing these aircraft to market will run into the billion dollars, and Boeing and McDonnell lack the needed research and development funds.

As a result of these developments, Airbus is continuing to increase its market share. However, the U.S government is trying to reduce the political risk and, through effective negotiations convince the consortium members to stop providing such large annual subsidies to Airbus. If these efforts are not successful, McDonnell Douglas is likely to go out of the business or have to sell more of its ownership to foreign investors, such as it recently did to Taiwan, who can provide the necessary capital to keep the firm going. The same will eventually happened to Boeing, since without new product development the company will have great difficulty competing against Airbus. In any event, the U.S dominated commercial airliner manufacturing industry has seen the entrance of a major competitor in Airbus. The industry has also seen an increase in the political risk facing established competitors and which will face Airbus as well, if the governments involved are unable to resolved their differences.