Andersen Studio Evolution Diaries

Definition of Taylor Swifting 1 a : fearlessly using one's life experiences in a song, a blog, or whatever.... b :individualism c : a point of view or tenet put forth as in a personalized narrative Farenheit 2013- a contemporary version of Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury in which censorship takes the form of limiting the length of a thought process to fit in the space between a twitter and an elevator pitch

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Preserving The American Political Philosophy

Prnewswire reported that TideSmart Global received stimulus funding to finance its large new business campus in Falmouth,Maine,with a groundbreaking ceremony honoring President Obama and Governor Baldacci but there are no records for vendor Tide Smart Global in the state of Maine records and no mention of TideSmart Global on recovery.Org. There is no coverage of the event on record in the Maine media.

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Preserving The American Political Philosophy: The Chained Consumer Price Index

I am posting this link again since is generally going unnoticed.You may have heard of a global plan, to which some credit President Obama as being a true believer, that the United States should have it's standard of living lowered to make the global distribution of wealth fairer The way I am reading it, being a mere layman, is that the substitute of the Consumer Price Index for the Chained Consumer Price Index, by governments in the United States, is being billed as a more accurate way of measuring the cost of living. However the Consumer Price Index, as I understand it, measured not the cost of living, but the cost of goods and services. The Chained Consumer Price Index measures the cos t of living, factoring in a general downward shift in the STANDARD of living as consumers adjust to a rising cost of goods reflected in the shrinking dollar caused by inflation, caused by worthless money being dumped on our system. The Chained Consumer Price index no longer measures the cost of

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Andersen Studio Kickstarter Diaries

SALEl Days during Sail Days at Andersen Studio Windjammer Days in Boothbay Harbor Maine is a festive Time. Take a trip down the road to East Boothbay and Ocean Point to stop by Andersen Studio and get a special 25% discount- OR use our coupon code online!

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Preserving The American Political Philosophy

The Chained Consumer Price Index allows the government to show a decline in the rate of escalation of the cost of living based on consumer efforts to stretch the shrinking purchasing power of the dollar without the government changing its spending habits one iota.

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The Chained Comsumer Price Index

I am taking a short break  from my story line to report of several other issues of import. the first being the new accounting method which the government has devised to calculate increases in the cost of living. Based on this new accounting devise alone, The government can now report that the rate of increase in the  cost of living is on the decline.

The new method is call Chained Consumer Price Index.  It is in the newly proposed budget for Maine but I believe that the source is the federal government:

An Act Making Unified Appropriations and Allocations for the Expenditures of State Government, General Fund and Other Funds and Changing Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2014 and June 30, 2015

This Part suspends the inflation adjustment for income tax brackets for tax year beginning in 2014 and 2015 and provides that the inflation adjustment calculation for tax years beginning after 2015 must be based on the Chained Consumer Price Index instead of the Consumer Price Index

Here is my layman's analysis based on this article:
Measuring Up:The Case for the Chained CPI
Moment of Truth Project, by Adam Rosenberg
Marc Goldwein
Updated December 12, 2012

One of the first thing ones learns is that without changing anything- such as the amount of paper money printed up by the federal reserve- that by using a Chained Consumer Price index instead of the standard consumer price index, the rate of cost of living increase magically decreases, Based on my quick perusal of the article linked above, this is done by calculating in changes in consumer spending habits- so if the consumer used to buy a certain item but found that they could no longer afford to do so because the purchasing power of their dollars would no longer accommodate such an item- and if the consumer then substitutes a lower cost item for the item they formerly purchased, then by using the Chained Consumer Price index, the cost of living did not go up as much as it did if the standard consumer price index is used . It is called a Chained Consumer Price Index because the index is calculated by chaining months together so that if in one month the consumer purchased the more expensive item but in the next month the consumer found a lesser expensive item- the cost of living increase will be calculated as less by using the Chained Consumer Price Index. This allows the government to report that the cost on the purchasing power of every one's money isn't as much as it used to be when the state takes worthless federal money and distributes it into the economy via benefits to targeted sector elite.

Using this accounting gimmick- without changing anything else, the government can then report that the rate of increase in the cost of living has decreased- thanks to all the ways that the consumer has found to make his dollar stretch a little further and the government doesn't have to change its own spending habits one iota to realize this improvement in the cost of living!

Preserving The American Political Philosophy

The Maine Department of Economic And Community Development throws a bone to teh micro-economy but it lands in non-profit Territory. This taxpayer funded bureaucracy excludes the entire retail sector from benefits ( redistributed wealth) and services that it provides and in so doing excludes a major chunk of Main Street.

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