Fairy Tales

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The political season is well underway.  We’re only a couple of weeks from the Primaries and the rhetoric is already high.  I have high hopes for some of the candidates I’ve heard from.  I recognize the same B.S. from a lot of the others.  I hear that this is the most important election of my life…  among other hyperbole.  

I plan to vote.  In a few cases, I plan to vote for someone I think will do good things.  In other cases I plan to vote for the lesser of evils, just as I have done in most elections.  I’m hoping the mood of the Country is such that we hold them to their promises this time around.

In a Magnanimous Fit…

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I got an email from ASLA last Friday suggesting that I volunteer to speak at the local school since April is Landscape Architecture Month.  In what must have been some kind of a magnanimous fit I fired off an email to the Culver School Superintendent volunteering to do just that.  Wouldn’t you know it, April 23rd is Career Day at the the Culver Middle School and they were thrilled to hear that I was volunteering to speak that afternoon.  Five 20 minute rotations of about 15 students each.  Wow…

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Paul Ryan Quote

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“While exact and precise measures cannot be made, there are estimates that in 2004, 20 percent of households in the U.S. were receiving about 75 percent of their income from the federal government, and that another 20 percent were receiving nearly 40 percent.  All in all, about 60 percent of American households were receiving more government benefits and services, measured in dollars, than they were paying back in taxes.  President Obama’s first budget alone raises this level of ‘net dependency’ to 70 percent.”

Paul Ryan is in his sixth term as a member of Congress, representing Wisconsin’s First Congressional District.  He is ranking member of the House Budget Committee and a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee.   This quote was taken from an article in the February 2010 issue of Imprimis.

April is National Landscape Architecture Month

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This month is National Landscape Architecture Month.  April is also African American Women’s Fitness Month, International Cesarean Awareness Month, Emotional Overeaters Awareness Month, Irritable Bowel Syndrome Month & Nationally Sexually Transmitted Diseases Month just to name a few.  (From the site here.)  I’m promoting Landscape Architecture since I have a Bachelor’s of Science in Landscape Architecture (B.S.L.A.) from Purdue University.  I am a Registered Landscape Architect with the State of Indiana.  I am a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA).

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Regalia Quote

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“The president’s budget came out last month, and after reading through hundreds of pages of text and tables, I came to the conclusion that this budget was a lot like the “El Gordo” platter at my favorite Mexican restaurant – it contains something for everybody, it’s loaded with pork, but it’s bad for your health, and it totes a hefty price tag.” 

–  From March 2010, Econ 101,  Dr. Martin Regalia, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, Economic Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce