Hey all its FRIDAY!

Just got off the phone with the lorsons about building a great energy site for their company. WOOHOO!

It also made me think about news feeds. I have added for fun and amusement the AHNOLD news feed to the site. It is the subject of fodder around the globe and in the United States. Anne gets off at 3:00PM today and could use some R&R before the kids arrive on Monday. YIKES!

My dads web site is really comming along at AndyPecunia.com I am going to step out for a little while and move some dirt in the front lawn for my parents. My dad has been working all week at MERCY. He is supposed to only work one day a week vut he is getting good $. My brother is still in training until October. Hope all is well with everyone.

U.S. infrastructure gets a D-plus

U.S. infrastructure gets a D-plus

So how did we get in this mess. Simple really. Unlike families who reinvest in themselves by getting college educations, buying homes, fixing up homes and adding additions, and starting new businesses the United States has been doing just the opposite. Let me explain. The United States built the bulk of its schools, infrastructure and Dams with projects like WPA in the 1930's. We then had a little effort in 1965 called the Intersate highway system. Most of the railroads in this country and subways in cities were built long before that time.

What are we doing instead? Well like drunken fools we are taking a ride on our fathers and grandfathers dime. Instead of reinvesting we deemed it a good idea to give ourselves a great big tax break. Well not really just people making the big bucks got the most of that tax cut. This at a time right before we know we have a very large liability coming up in the baby boomers retirement and health care costs. So we must be building jobs and manufacturing for the future right? Nope. We are buying up foreign cars faster than you can say LEXUS. It's pretty simple really. If we all went to the store and made sure we tried to buy a product made in America or a car the economy would pick up. People would be working.

We could afford the very infrastructure projects that CHINA is building right now with the money we keep sending them for products that used to be made right here in the United States. A wise man once said vote with your pocketbook.

Here is what I am doing. I bought an American car. Every time I go to the store to buy something I try to buy American if it is available. Why? Because I know it matters what I purchase. I am supporting jobs at home rather than shipping another factory overseas. You see I think the best way to help people is to give them good paying jobs, just like George Bush said in his innaguration speech! If we all did that America would start working again. Without a solid manufacturing base no country can survive and its power and dominance will wane. That is why I am putting my money where my mouth is--how about you?

As City Goes Back to School, Bloomberg's Plan Faces Test

As City Goes Back to School, Bloomberg's Plan Faces Test

Big changes at New York City schools as Anne started this week to get her class ready. I went down yesterday and helped Anne begin the process of setting up her calss. We moved and arranged the desks, cleaned the entire room, and bought a lock for her
possessions. Anne's classes start at Fordham this evening. Whew!

My dad's campaign is heating up and he is getting many hits at his new website. AndyPecunia.com

I should be on line today although very busy. Please drop me a line when you get a chance everyone.

Bush's Resume -- Sorry Could Not Resist :)

GEORGE W. BUSH ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:

• I spent the US surplus and bankrupted the US Treasury.

• I shattered the record for the biggest annual deficit in history (not easy!).

• I set an economic record for the most personal bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.

• I set all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the stock market.

• I attacked and took over two countries.

• I am the first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner..

• I am the first president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.

• In my first year in office I set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history (tough to beat my dad's, but I did).

• After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, I presided over the worst security failure in US history.

• I set the record for most campaign fund raising trips by any president in US history.

• In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their jobs.

• I cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any other president in US history.

• I set the all-time record for most real estate foreclosures in a 12-month period.

• I appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history.

• I set the record for the fewest press conferences of any president, since the advent of TV.

• I signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any other US president in history.

• I presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.

• I cut health care benefits for war veterans.

• I set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.

• I dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.

• I've made my presidency the most secretive and unaccountable of any in US history.

• Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. The poorest multimillionaire, Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her.)

• I am the first president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously struggle against bankruptcy.

• I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud in any market in any country in the history of the world.

• I am the first president in US history to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the will of the United Nations and the vast majority of the international community.

• I have created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States, called the "Bureau of Homeland Security"(only one letter away from BS).

• I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any other president in US history.

• I am the first president in US history to compel the United Nations to remove the US from the Human Rights Commission.

• I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the Elections Monitoring Board.

• I removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.

• I withdrew from the World Court of Law.- I refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.

• I am the first president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors access during the 2002 US elections.

• I am the all-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.

• The biggest lifetime contributor to my campaign, who is also one of my best friends, presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).

• I spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history.

• I am the first president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied, saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1)

• I am the first US president to establish a secret shadow government.

• I took the world's sympathy for the US after 9/11, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history).

• I am the first US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.

• I changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.

• I set the all-time record for the number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling their huge investments in corporations bidding for gov't contracts.

• I have removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history.

• I entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.

RECORDS AND REFERENCES:

• I have at least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (my Texas driving record has been erased and is not available).

• I was AWOL from the National Guard and deserted the military during time of war.

• I refuse to take a drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.

• All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to my fathers library, sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.

• All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.

• All minutes of meetings of any public corporation for which I served on the board are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
• Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.


PERSONAL REFERENCES:
For personal references, please speak to my dad or Uncle James Baker. (They can be reached in their offices
at the Carlyle Group where they are helping to divide up the spoils of the US-Iraq war and plan for the next one).

Poverty in America Up for 2002!

The Seattle Times: Nation & World: 1.4 million more Americans in poverty in 2002

It seems odd that as the economy continues to create record profits for companies and we created tax breaks for wealthier Americans that nothing was done about this problem. Allowing our next generation to falter through policies that allow our children (and I use that in the our america sense) is just plain wrong. While an astonishing 12% of the American public are now living in poverty the figure for children is 17.2%.

Keep in mind that the poverty threshold differs by the size and makeup of a household. For instance, a person under 65 living alone in 2002 was considered in poverty if income was $9,359 or less; for a household of three including one child, it was $14,480.

Seems like something could be done about that in a country as great as ours. It also seems like it would be in our interest to get the children out of poverty since new studies point to economic status as one of the prime determing factors in creating poory educated adults. Can the United States affford to have 17.2% of its popution in poverty and potentially undereducated in an increasing competitive world? I think not!

PCB's are now OK for building sites says EPA?

EPA ruling questioned

I am not sure why the EPA would want to lift a ban on building on sites contaminated by PCB's. These substances are amongst the most cancer causing in the world. What is interesting is how it was done so quietly so as to keep the lifting of the ban out of the news. Please read this article and pass it along if you can.

Michael Craig and Family

Michael Craig and Family

This is my good friend from Solucient Michael Craigs web blog. Check it out.

Happy Labor Day Everyone!

We had a good labor day doing the most American thing you can do. . . We were shopping!

Well someone has to help the economy. . . We picked up a buch of supplies that Anne needs for school. She starts her assignment this week although she will have no classes until next monday when the children arrive. My dads web site is now up at andypecunia.com. Things are looking pretty good for him in the election.

We went to the movies with my parents last night and saw http://www.hollywood.com/movies/detail/movie/1614797 Open range. Quite a cool movie! It has some great scenery from the west----err of Canada. . . since that is where they shoot these movies these days. Welll I am off to get a little R&R we get up at the crack of dawn in the morning for Anne's classes.

Have fun everybody!