tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38181543753888628602024-03-19T01:08:56.246-04:00The Art of the Etsy TreasuryCurated Treasuries of hand crafted objects from the global micro economy.Mackenzie Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956586274740574912noreply@blogger.comBlogger147125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818154375388862860.post-1677356258420687642015-07-26T10:36:00.001-04:002015-07-26T10:36:16.388-04:00Andersen Studio Evolution Diaries: Re-Constructing Andersen Design Ceramics For The Age of The Internet<img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwn3iZS-N_6Grxidg-e2lspR8nMZNikhWYPrdUDC21Qq7bEJ94edFeEEtoXZyH6y-7-QyH7Ihm9NNEXG3M5Zx43knzrvOSV2d6pyoXjK41eyyezGWrNbPuV8y6cFFEiUdQWADdT7ewPuY/s1600/Dad+Inspired+BW550.jpg'/><br/>Andersen Design's re-capitalization plan reaches back to the past of the American free enterprise system's boot strapping philosophy and marries it with Google's internet marketing strategies used by large online retailers !<br/><a href="http://bit.ly/1DGR1W1">http://bit.ly/1DGR1W1</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy!</div>Mackenzie Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956586274740574912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818154375388862860.post-20914831758558108762015-07-01T11:07:00.001-04:002015-07-01T11:07:20.523-04:00Preserving The American Political Philosophy: The Maine Legislature and the Trans Pacific Trade Agreement<img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZHeUulHHmFXtkPxk5FadAxneQgwE_KhJHYchRGNHq19JbK44M_P4ow47M61WuwJwitjryQsXREUiRgxTd0YZYCj09Rwfar-G8XfJPN5kbx1ez7wh7RMVkECzGcIwDxg_Rqg0aKPaynKSp/s80/Picture-204-D-Aug-28-2014-LG.jpg'/><br/>The Trans Pacific Trade Deal is in the news with much concern over provisions allowing companies to use secretive international tribunals to sue sovereign local governments when they pass pass public-interest policies . The same issue was raised in 2012 in a letter from the states signed by the Maine Legislature and yet in 2013 the Maine legislature passed a Resolution of Friendship between Maine and China which endorsed the Trans Pacific Trade Agreement. The Resolution was passed silently without coverage by the Maine media- with one exception from the fringes- this blog When the independent media is delivered as a singular voice and selectively reporting the news with a singular bias- that is the definition of propaganda- the antidote to propaganda is to have many voices of diverse opinions and perspectives. Please become a backer for my crowd-funder.<br/><a href="http://bit.ly/1JvnYJD">http://bit.ly/1JvnYJD</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy!</div>Mackenzie Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956586274740574912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818154375388862860.post-91902970737941567792015-06-29T13:25:00.001-04:002015-06-29T13:25:31.534-04:00Preserving The American Political Philosophy: Confessions of A Blogger Writing In Her Pajama's - Well House Robe !<img src='https://d5k6iufjynyu8.cloudfront.net/uploads/andersenstudio-1435598325-June_29_2015_300.gif'/><br/>This is a crucial day in deciding to put a down payment down on the Iuniversal program for self publishers at a discount of 50%. Seeing public support for my mission is key . That is the most missed ingredient for me to make a decison. This is not just about Iuniversal but also about the Beacon Crowdfunder for Journalists . If I can reach my modest goal of $800.00 I can be a Beacon author and connect with that community as well. I can't do it without public support. Please become a backer on this crucual decision making day- READ MORE HERE !Mackenzie Andersen<br/><a href="http://bit.ly/1BRdPGX">http://bit.ly/1BRdPGX</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy!</div>Mackenzie Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956586274740574912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818154375388862860.post-75473506191464212332015-06-28T11:25:00.001-04:002015-06-28T11:25:17.939-04:00Preserving The American Political Philosophy: The Maine Media Coverage of Government Economic Development Policies Fits the Definition Of Propaganda<img src='https://d5k6iufjynyu8.cloudfront.net/uploads/andersenstudio-1435503984-Put_ME_To_Work_300.gif'/><br/>In this post I make the case the the entire Maine media coverage of Maine's economic development policies meets the definition of propaganda- consistently for decades presenting, in unison, a singular point of view from the perspective of those who benefit, told in unison by a chorus of supposedly independent news media and in unison also omitting significant facts. My blog represents a different voice and is based in years of researching the history and when I report on current legislation- I start by reading that legislation- that is how I know that important details are being omitted by the Maine main stream media like a well orchestrated symphony. Tomorrow is the deadline for the 50% discount on iuniversal's self publishing program which would put me in contact with a much needed network of self publishing professionals. I need to make a down payment then. Please become one of my backers- if only in support of a free press in Maine that presents a diversity of opinions.<br/><a href="http://bit.ly/1BYZgS5">http://bit.ly/1BYZgS5</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy!</div>Mackenzie Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956586274740574912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818154375388862860.post-30032905396696621272015-06-27T11:05:00.001-04:002015-06-27T11:05:15.913-04:00Preserving The American Political Philosophy: Day Three Of Crowdfunder- Weighing Conflicts of Interest<img src='https://d5k6iufjynyu8.cloudfront.net/uploads/andersenstudio-1435417110-Ceramic_Chickadee_Sculpture_300_L.jpg'/><br/>Day Three of Crowdfunder but only a couple of days away from the deadline for the 50% discount on iuniverse. A significant increase in backers would make it easier to decide what to do. If you believe the story I have been uncovering for the last six years needs to be p-art of our public dialogue- Please consider becoming a backer to make my decision easier.<br/><a href="http://bit.ly/1BK92av">http://bit.ly/1BK92av</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy!</div>Mackenzie Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956586274740574912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818154375388862860.post-48760093174408820492015-06-26T09:49:00.001-04:002015-06-26T09:49:13.026-04:00Preserving The American Political Philosophy: MISSION: To Connect Global Popular & Local Understanding<img src='https://d5k6iufjynyu8.cloudfront.net/uploads/andersenstudio-1435326062-Preserving_Logo_sq.gif'/><br/>I am trying to raise funds for a special deal on ipublishing's self publisher program. This would connect me with a network of self publishing professionals who can help with my project at every level. The deadline for the 50% discount is Monday June 29, 2015. Please become a backer of my mission. All contributions give encouragement that is beyond measurement in mere dollars. It means you believe in my mission ! That means everything !<br/><a href="http://bit.ly/1JnFfar">http://bit.ly/1JnFfar</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy!</div>Mackenzie Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956586274740574912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818154375388862860.post-14895500046060404272015-06-26T08:22:00.001-04:002015-06-26T08:22:26.120-04:00Preserving The American Political Philosophy: Networking Essential For A Successful Crowdfunder And Developing Such A Network Is It's Purpose<img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIk5wI_5aiRtNSXK36t0edyu6HLZLn1Oss0FxSONPsb0NDyGRkLRWBExYXrAKbu4leOnHl7rSbT1r9MqIPNjqNmYOXC6nkTzFW9o52BiADrBqfu6fkD2spmtQ0gqcXoRHnTm6vTn6azBc/s1600/Join+The+Email+List+A1SIDE+300.jpg'/><br/>This is my crowdfunder up date from yesterday before I got my first backer. I thank George Colby for his generous contribution, a person I know only from FaceBook where I post my blog posts. This post will go out to my Andersen Studio ( Now officially Andersen Design) pages. I know it is not ususal to mix business and politics but I would never have become involved in the research that I do had I not encountered the first evidence of what is going on behind the media presentations, at a business networking event where in I was trying to find funding for redoing Andersen Designs molds. The centralization of capitalization in the hands of a "public private relationship" which has access to the use of taxpayer money effects the ability of all businesses in Maine to attract capital. What ever size, if that business is not in the corporate welfare sector, that business has to compete with the corporate wellfare sector-on all levels- my space is up- Please consider backing project.<br/><a href="http://bit.ly/1Jnxlhc">http://bit.ly/1Jnxlhc</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy!</div>Mackenzie Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956586274740574912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818154375388862860.post-46583454305895145262015-06-24T08:42:00.001-04:002015-06-24T08:55:23.623-04:00Preserving The American Political Philosophy: A Lttle Help From My Freinds !<br />
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I have been researching Maine economic development statutes for over six years and have presented a view of the history, content, effect and purpose behind those statutes that you will not find elsewhere. For a while I have been thinking of writing a book. I have been offered a 50% discount for a self publishing program that will connect me with a community of self publishing professionals which can help me with every aspect of self publishing but I have to accept it by Monday, June 29 2015. My budget is tight and so I need a little help from my freinds to take advantage of this offer. Please support my ambition with whatever you can afford, however small or large. Click here to see how. Thank You, Mackenzie<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">This is an issue affecting the made in American and hand crafted industries in the USA and Maine including the future of </span><a href="http://www.andersenstudio.com/" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">Andersen Design </a><span style="text-align: center;">which was established on the coast of Maine in 1952.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy!</div>Mackenzie Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956586274740574912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818154375388862860.post-26533826238417900112015-06-19T19:37:00.001-04:002015-06-24T08:55:32.667-04:00Preserving The American Political Philosophy: Fixing The Blame For the New Markets Tax Credit<img height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg86qejU4UjoqODTL9AxirJBcdPWtW2M_QXgVZl1kS3x_F6p7d0DL8UKF3rcS-w2eaE9w3jlL6Ql0GUwOt02NSZDDUQ0agwXvrnrjbrsBhs8WPvMb09Ir1uzBJPDYZ2JHC_cXtKPLIrNsg/s320/deconstruct.fw.png" width="257" /><br />
The Maine Media and Political Culture do damage control for the New Markets Tax Credit scandal hoping to contain it before the revelations spread throughout the entire corproate welfare system and set their sites on out of states investors to whom to attach the entire blame for a scandal of their own making. What? Me? Responsible?! Your'e Kidding !<br />
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Maine's latest job creation program,Put ME to Work, lauds the virtues of the public-private hegemony as it ups the requirements for recieving corporate welfare benefits parsed in the new terminology of "high compensation" to replace the former "above average income- all to be finnaced by labor and businesses in the bottom half of the economy ! and all for the "public benefit" or so we are told !<br />
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Public Benefit Corporations and Benefit Corporations could easily be mistaken for one and the same thing but they are completely different. In this post I examine Wikipedia's pages on each type of corporation and discover that the verification links identifying states that have passed Benefit Corporation legislation are not what they appear to be. The similarity between the names of two very different philosophies behind each type of legislation is just another act in the slippery art of political linguistics.<br />
<a href="http://bit.ly/1IKvuAI">http://bit.ly/1IKvuAI</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy!</div>Mackenzie Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956586274740574912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818154375388862860.post-78277509267442190342015-04-29T10:23:00.001-04:002015-04-29T10:23:17.010-04:00Preserving The American Political Philosophy: New Markets Tax Credit Program To Be Distributed to MRRA- High Paid Hotbed of Corporate Welfare !<img src='https://d5k6iufjynyu8.cloudfront.net/uploads/andersenstudio-1430316995-RayONPTZ.gif'/><br/>Now that the Cate Street Scandal, costing Maine Taxpayers 76 million dollars is fading from the news cycle, the Maine legislature is already talking about increasing by 100% the limit for this transfer of wealth from tax payers pockets to corporate bank accounts and to distribute that wealth not to the low income high unemplyment areas but to unconstitutionally state governed municipalities located at former military zones which are hotbeds for Maine's corporate welfare system creating the highest paid workers in the state at a continually escalating rate !<br/><a href="http://bit.ly/1GvY2cT">http://bit.ly/1GvY2cT</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy!</div>Mackenzie Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956586274740574912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818154375388862860.post-52202693832971603832015-04-28T15:09:00.001-04:002015-04-28T15:09:13.932-04:00Preserving The American Political Philosophy: Cate Street Capital- Legal Fraud Staus Checks Out -Here's How it Happened !<img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg86qejU4UjoqODTL9AxirJBcdPWtW2M_QXgVZl1kS3x_F6p7d0DL8UKF3rcS-w2eaE9w3jlL6Ql0GUwOt02NSZDDUQ0agwXvrnrjbrsBhs8WPvMb09Ir1uzBJPDYZ2JHC_cXtKPLIrNsg/s1600/deconstruct.fw.png'/><br/>I am correcting my earlier assesment on this statute as I found the New Markets Tax Credit fully embedded in an amendment to teh bill that The House and Senate Voted on. That means, that although it seems compromising to put a statute into a budget with many other items, it is true that the House and Senate voted on it. The reason why the bill of the same name as the statute died is because the bill was inserted into the budget and so instead of going by the name of the statute, it goes by the name of the budget/<br/><a href="http://bit.ly/1Gto3cQ">http://bit.ly/1Gto3cQ</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy!</div>Mackenzie Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956586274740574912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818154375388862860.post-46477870192175925172015-04-28T12:48:00.001-04:002015-04-28T12:48:33.604-04:00Preserving The American Political Philosophy: Cate Street Capital - A Legal Faud: By What Rule of Law?<img src='https://d5k6iufjynyu8.cloudfront.net/uploads/andersenstudio-1430239017-Switched.fw.png'/><br/>The media tells us that the Cate Street debacle is a "legal fraud" on the Maine Taxpayers indebting them to the tune of 76 million dollars. The main stream story is that the statute on which the taxpayer debt is premised was enacted during a budget meeting and that when the House and Senate approved of the budget, they also enacted the statute. Research comes up with two separate bill status for LD 1043 (HP 778) - One that states that it was enacted and signed byThe Governor.The bill text includes a summary for the New Markets Tax Credit statute. The other bill status records the vote for the House and Senate. The text for that bill status makes no mention of the New Markets tax credit.<br/><a href="http://bit.ly/1Gt0UqY">http://bit.ly/1Gt0UqY</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy!</div>Mackenzie Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956586274740574912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818154375388862860.post-31195890678785635132015-04-27T13:02:00.001-04:002015-04-27T13:02:22.952-04:00Preserving The American Political Philosophy: Statute Enacted By Maine's Budget Committee Basis for "Legal Fraud" Foisted on TaxPayers !<img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg86qejU4UjoqODTL9AxirJBcdPWtW2M_QXgVZl1kS3x_F6p7d0DL8UKF3rcS-w2eaE9w3jlL6Ql0GUwOt02NSZDDUQ0agwXvrnrjbrsBhs8WPvMb09Ir1uzBJPDYZ2JHC_cXtKPLIrNsg/s1600/deconstruct.fw.png'/><br/>"Legal Fraud" reported by the Maine medai as rsulting in the Maine taxpayers owing shsyters $91 million dollars is premised in a statute enacted not by a vote by both legislative houses- but by the budget committing inserting a nearly identical statute into the Maine budget. As reported by an FOA response received from Maine legislative library- this statute resulting in a huge burden on Maine taxpayers was enacted by teh budget committee which now wants to double the limit for teh New Markets Refundable Tax Credit.<br/><a href="http://bit.ly/1z6olsG">http://bit.ly/1z6olsG</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy!</div>Mackenzie Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956586274740574912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818154375388862860.post-89749197888229687432015-04-27T03:17:00.001-04:002015-04-27T03:17:18.203-04:00Preserving The American Political Philosophy: Rule Changes proposed by Lepage Threaten Private Property Rights in Maine<img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZHeUulHHmFXtkPxk5FadAxneQgwE_KhJHYchRGNHq19JbK44M_P4ow47M61WuwJwitjryQsXREUiRgxTd0YZYCj09Rwfar-G8XfJPN5kbx1ez7wh7RMVkECzGcIwDxg_Rqg0aKPaynKSp/s80/Picture-204-D-Aug-28-2014-LG.jpg'/><br/>Maine Governor LePage is sponsoring an act to limit the authority of the State Attorney General over state agency rule making processes. The act also includes a new rule that says statutory law can over write the constitutional protection of private property rights, underscoring why we need an Attorney General with concern for our constitution to reign in politicians<br/><a href="http://bit.ly/1A4gA1y">http://bit.ly/1A4gA1y</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy!</div>Mackenzie Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956586274740574912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818154375388862860.post-78612586780023853242015-04-26T09:29:00.001-04:002015-04-26T09:29:21.174-04:00Preserving The American Political Philosophy: Maine Media Reports LD991 New Markets Tax Credit Passed- FOA Response Says It Didn't !<img src='https://d5k6iufjynyu8.cloudfront.net/uploads/andersenstudio-1430054516-Bill_Summary.gif'/><br/>In his otherwise well researched and informative article, Mr Whit Richardson continues to report that the ever more expensive scandal which costs are thrown on the backs of the Maine tax payers is a "legal fraud" - but I ask how legal can it be when the bill upon which the statute is based died in the Senate as is cofirmed by my own FOA request to the Maine Legislative Library. How can the Maine taxpayers owe these continually escalating sums to out of state shysters when our representatives never signed off on the deal ?- or if they did it is a very closely guarded secret to which even the Maine Legislative Library has no access !<br/><a href="http://bit.ly/1DMViWQ">http://bit.ly/1DMViWQ</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy!</div>Mackenzie Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956586274740574912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818154375388862860.post-14411597760186754222015-04-25T19:04:00.001-04:002015-04-25T19:04:20.163-04:00Preserving The American Political Philosophy: Maine's Minimum Wage Bill Ties Increase to Inflation<img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZHeUulHHmFXtkPxk5FadAxneQgwE_KhJHYchRGNHq19JbK44M_P4ow47M61WuwJwitjryQsXREUiRgxTd0YZYCj09Rwfar-G8XfJPN5kbx1ez7wh7RMVkECzGcIwDxg_Rqg0aKPaynKSp/s80/Picture-204-D-Aug-28-2014-LG.jpg'/><br/>Increase in Wages must be tied to productivity not inflation #mepolitics #minwage #Maine<br/><a href="http://bit.ly/1bszcCi">http://bit.ly/1bszcCi</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy!</div>Mackenzie Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956586274740574912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818154375388862860.post-81770581250509288382015-04-22T12:10:00.001-04:002015-04-22T12:10:38.695-04:00Preserving The American Political Philosophy: Maine Media Breaks It's Silence on The Refundable Tax Credit<img src='https://d5k6iufjynyu8.cloudfront.net/uploads/andersenstudio-1429718576-Bill_Status_2011_550.gif'/><br/>In Whit Richardson's article in the Portland Press Herald, Payday At The Mill, the Maine media finally breaks its code of secrecy about refundable tax credits, which are the life blood of the state's corporate welfare system but no one seems to have noticed that although there is indeed a bill for the New Markets Tax Credit published in the Maine Statutes and dated 2011. the bill status says that the bill died on adjournment of June 259 2011.<br/><a href="http://bit.ly/1DsUm9L">http://bit.ly/1DsUm9L</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy!</div>Mackenzie Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956586274740574912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818154375388862860.post-48345345167929658152015-04-20T08:03:00.001-04:002015-04-20T08:03:31.304-04:00Preserving The American Political Philosophy: Maine Media Breaks It's Silence on The Refundable Tax Credit<img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg86qejU4UjoqODTL9AxirJBcdPWtW2M_QXgVZl1kS3x_F6p7d0DL8UKF3rcS-w2eaE9w3jlL6Ql0GUwOt02NSZDDUQ0agwXvrnrjbrsBhs8WPvMb09Ir1uzBJPDYZ2JHC_cXtKPLIrNsg/s1600/deconstruct.fw.png'/><br/>I have been saying for a long time that nothing will change in the state of Maine until there is a change in the Maine media. One of the subjects I have been writing about is the refundable tax credit and being frustrated by the fact that the Maine media not only does not explain to the public what a refundable tax credit is but doesn't even mention the fact that the tax credits that we hear about so often are refundable. Refundable tax credits are at the heart of this story of a carefully orchestrated legal theft of 16 million dollars from the Maine taxpayers. This was made possible by the Maine legislature which allowed the beneficiaries of a new program to write the program them selves, including the refundable tax credit which is ubiquitous through our Maine's unconstitutional corporate state's corporate welfare programs. Thanks to staff writer Whit Richardson of The Portland Press Herald for getting this story out there using a much larger microphone than my own<br/><a href="http://bit.ly/1DsUm9L">http://bit.ly/1DsUm9L</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy!</div>Mackenzie Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956586274740574912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818154375388862860.post-5910970429844626872015-04-12T13:22:00.001-04:002015-04-12T13:22:18.502-04:00Preserving The American Political Philosophy: Big Money, Redistributed Wealth and Legal Opacity Make For Happy Bed Fellows!<img src='https://d5k6iufjynyu8.cloudfront.net/uploads/andersenstudio-1428858591-!977_Law_exemption.gif'/><br/>This is an update of a post written in 2013 in response to the Expanded and Improved Seed Capital Tax Credit unanimously passed by the Maine legislature amid a flurry of biased news coverage focusing almost exclusively on businesses that stand to get a cash infusion from the passage of the bill. No single bill is passed in isolation but is part of a larger and incremental strategy dating approximately back to the charter of the Maine Development Foundation Corporation serving as the foundation stone for the ever expanding corporation of Maine- a corporation that goes without an official name but is in fact an interlink web of state corporations all of which do have names. This post adds recent information expanding the historical context from past to present which sheds light on the true function of the Seed Capital Tax Credit and its role as a device for implementing special interest politics. This post is technical but a perfect example of "the devil is in the details"<br/><a href="http://bit.ly/1CLqAwG">http://bit.ly/1CLqAwG</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy!</div>Mackenzie Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956586274740574912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818154375388862860.post-16929745557651900502015-04-12T11:13:00.001-04:002015-04-12T11:13:28.608-04:00Preserving The American Political Philosophy: Bill Proposed to Include Town of Berwick, Maine in Pine Tree Zone Corporate Welfare Benefits<img src='https://d5k6iufjynyu8.cloudfront.net/uploads/andersenstudio-1428851001-!977_Law_exemption.gif'/><br/>Representative Beth O'Connor is sponsoring a bill to include the town of Berwick, Maine as an area qualified to receive Maine's Pine Tree Zone Corporate Welfare benefits. When I joined the conversation and pointed out that there is something wrong with a picture where in there has to be special acts of legislation passed in order to include a specific town in Maine for a benefit which was originally created in 2003 for any area in the state of Maine that has high unemployment and low income. The Pine tree Zone statute was fundamentally transformed in 2009 amid minimal media coverage. The minimal media coverage reported that the Pine Tree Zone was being expanded to cover the entire state. If that was true why is Representative Beth O'Connor proposing a special act of legislation to include the town of Berwick in Pine Tree Zone benefits?<br/><a href="http://bit.ly/1D9mHoF">http://bit.ly/1D9mHoF</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy!</div>Mackenzie Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956586274740574912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818154375388862860.post-61614949660032990952015-04-09T12:01:00.001-04:002015-04-09T12:06:11.281-04:00Andersen Studio Evolution Diaries: Andersen Design Seeks Slip casting Production Collaborator in Developing Prototype<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh2Aoho7N5l1Wfhs6Wybj93vKm4nggT6LfpIHguLWrsGYuR5P5KJimgK4Js9GfGa4WcXJyjYKaadWpdAPybfoG2MVI3scyedCoZqHSLq23gPHXg4ulgU1fNAeisuxkYf4F9Mg9Tjq6Kmc/s1600/Stoneware_Mugs_ceramic_creamer_Sugar_Bowl_GWEBLV.jpg" height="480" width="640" /><br />
Andersen Design of Maine has been designing and producing American slip cast ceramics since 1952. We have a large line of wildlife sculptures and functional forms which have maintained marketability over the decades establishing Andersen Design as a classic in their field. Andersen Design has traditionally used our own proprietary body and glazes. We will continue this tradition but are looking to develop another line based on standardized & widely available solutions applied to our classic line of functional forms. We are seeking another American slip casting company with whom we can collaborate in developing the prototype of our first product produced in this way.<br />
<a href="http://bit.ly/1Fr4Isj">http://bit.ly/1Fr4Isj</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy!</div>Mackenzie Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956586274740574912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818154375388862860.post-42464187134489240052015-03-17T12:27:00.001-04:002015-03-17T12:27:28.490-04:00Preserving The American Political Philosophy: A Credit Due to The Bangor Daily News<img src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_wrench_allbkg.png'/><br/>I recently wrote about the suppression of free speech conducted by the Maine main stream media. In all fairness, I now must give credit due to the Bangor Daily News, which has allowed an interesting debate to carry on. Read more here<br/><a href="http://bit.ly/1GRLu0Q">http://bit.ly/1GRLu0Q</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy!</div>Mackenzie Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17956586274740574912noreply@blogger.com0