Thinking about the United States economy this morning. When manufacturing in the United States or any nation increases its GDP is affected in a substantial postive way. If the United States does not buy more of its own products it affects our GDP negatively and reduces investment capital.

As the largest purchasing nation we could pull ourselves out of the recession just by buying American made products instead of foreign ones. That would keep our wealth in the United States rather than exporting that wealth and jobs overseas. How can this be encouraged? Could we start by American campaigns? How do our trade agreements affect this process? In crafting agreements like NAFTA and most favored nation trading status--do we demand the same access that other nations expect from us? How do we train our manufacturing sector employees--our non college bound workers? Some insight can be found in the ways Germany and Japan go about training non-college bound youth for high paying and rewarding technical specialty careers--but what application does this have to the United States situation?

If anyone has any comments please e-mail me! :)

Its raining in New York again! Uggh! My parents are having the roof redone and they won't be here until tomorrow. In preperation my dad and I are putting in recessed lighting in the kitchen today--since a skylight will be where the current light is now located. This will also allow us to have light once the work starts. The job hunt is on and I am starting to get some leads and calls. The economy is much better here than in Washington State. Anne is working every night until about 12:30PM on school work and I am trying to be supportive by doing some research on the web for her. My friend and business associate Eric is calling me today top set up leads and appointments for next week on a project we are working on together. Anyway, my dad wants me to get to work on the ceiling so so long for now. . . .

My Parents are having the roof re-done and the supplies arrived today. My dad is still getting signitures for his campaign, and Anne is still in New York City at 6:00PM

Drew and Anne are now in New York.  It was one of those things that happened very
very quickly.  Arrival was June 5th. We left Washington on on June 1, 2003 for the big apple and New York City!
We had about a week to pack after learning that Anne was accepted for the
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New York City Teaching Fellows Program
Anne gets a free second Master Degree at Fordham University and gets paid!
Anne got her assignment and will be in Division 10 
This could be either
Harlem or the South Bronx.
My dad has asked me to be his campaign manager in his run for Town Supervisor of Somers New York
--We started June 6th getting started and will be going around getting more signatures this evening to get him on the ballot.


Here is Andy's Blog. . .Here is Anne's New York City Teaching Blog. . . I have joined the gym in
Yorktown Heights and made contact with my fraternity brother (the technical
recruiter) about getting a job in the city.