BEN FRANKLIN

Inventor, experimentor, newspaper operator - First Postmaster General of the United States, Ben was as popular as a rock star in his day.

From THE WAL-MART EFFECT by CHARLES FISHMAN

THE WAL-MART EFFECT by CHARLES FISHMAN
How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
Penguin Press Published 2006

Page 189 "It uses its vast market power to insist on low unit prices that are possible only if workers are squeezed to such an extreme degree that they can barely survive the long hours and low wages they are forced to endure."

Has Wal-Mart elbowed American families into poverty, all the while saving them enough money on mechanise to buy several weeks worth of groceries. This book is three years old but it's worth reading if you want to educate yourself.

Just how many products does Wal-Mart carry that are Made in the United States?

NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES LINK HERE !

Here's the link to a terrific site, funded by your taxes of course! THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES site is the place to do a little genealogy research or SEND FOR MILITARY RECORDS !

OLD TUBS - SEARS CATALOGUE

And old page from the Sears and Roebuck's catalogue 1898, one of the best and oldest mail order catalogues in the nation.

Today ordering through the mail or the Internet has changed shopping and pricing. Why spend the day gassing up the car and driving from store to store when you can browse on the net and have the purchase delivered to the door?

MAIL ORDER CATALOGUES OUGHT TO BE showing AMERICAN FLAGS on the products they sell that are actually made in the United States of America. Do you have a favorite made in the USA product?

PAPER or PLASTIC ? ECONOMY or ECOLOGY

ECONOMY or ECOLOGY ?

Today many stores are offering a recycled bag alternative for your purchases, as an alternative to going out the door with paper or plastic grocery and other bags.

Which should you use?

First of all, PAPER BAGS are far more biodegradable than PLASTIC BAGS. However, the recycled bag alternative may actually not be made of recycled materials itself and is probably not made in the United States. The ones of a fiberous looking material, I find, do not hold up for long and I wonder just how many plastic bags I didn't use because I load groceries in plastic bags into these.

Canvas or other heavy cloth bags that are well sewn to hold weight are a good alternative for carrying things since cotton cloth is also more biodegradable than plastic and washable.

FIND A HEAVY CANVAS BAG THAT IS ALSO MADE IN THE UNITED STATES and you've done the best you can for our economy and our ecology...

Patriotic Purchase

CYBER ATTACK ON WHITE HOUSE and U.S. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Click now on the title to get to this breaking news from YAHOO !

TOM WAITS BUDDY CAN YOU SPARE A DIME ?

STATUE OF LIBERTY's CROWN REOPENED - BEST VIEW!

Link now to the breaking news from U.S.A. Today. The Statue of Liberty's crown is rehabed and the view of New York is great!

SAIL SHIP FLYING THE AMERICAN FLAG

JEFFERSON's CODE CRACKED !

President Jefferson had a code...?! Click to the Wall Street Journal article!

"For more than 200 years, buried deep within Thomas Jefferson's correspondence and papers, there lay a mysterious cipher -- a coded message that appears to have remained unsolved. Until now.

"The cryptic message was sent to President Jefferson in December 1801 by his friend and frequent correspondent, Robert Patterson, a mathematics professor at the University of Pennsylvania. President Jefferson and Mr. Patterson were both officials at the American Philosophical Society -- a group that promoted scholarly research in the sciences and humanities -- and were enthusiasts of ciphers and other codes, regularly exchanging letters about them..."

By Rachel Emma Silverman

ARTIST DAN DUNN's PATRIOTIC PERFORMANCE