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• Anonymous

  The Federal EB-5 program will be a liability, and is not the right thing to do in Maine.
  American citizens can create jobs, not green carders. This is another federal boondoggle and is stupid.

• Anonymous

  Will everyone have to pass E-Verify?

• Anonymous

  ya gottta be kiddin me sick people with cancer would love to go to canada ya think they will reciprocate?

• Anonymous

  Here we go !!!
  Give tax breaks and handouts to “foreign investors” , all the while Mainers
  are sitting home wishing and hoping they could get a chance at some funding for school.
  Or start something up so they can keep their homes.

  I here the Chinese have some extra cash they might like to invest.
  And then there are the Mexicans with their ready cash and highly organized “network” of
  willing workers.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CL7IBDRT3K73W6YUTS54SWEA4A David

  America, for sale.  Now that’s a great selling point.  Hey George
  Gervais, why don’t you work on something to help the businesses that are
  legally here, have been here, and would like to stay here?  Oh wait,
  you are a multiple failed business owner so it’s unlikely your decision
  making skills will be of use anyway.  Let’s see, you owned Chocolate
  Grille in Old Town and EVO Italian Restaurant in Bangor and Chocolate
  Grille in Searsport.  Their status when you ran them? CLOSED due to
  “INVESTMENT ISSUES”.  Then you moved on to Carteret Mortgage as a senior
  loan officer.  Status?  BANKRUPTCY  And now you’re peddling this
  investment.  Phew, makes me feel pretty confident!

• Anonymous

  This adds a whole different shade, green card green, to “open for business” . 

• Anonymous

  So who do you work  for, USDefender  ? 

   A new voice from out the blue, and outta State, who’ s not so very in tune  with the tone here ?  

  Is he  another pro from  Dover, Hawkeye  ? 

  ROTFLOL 

• Anonymous

  YOU MUST HAVE ZEE PROPER PAPERS, UNLESS YOU WORK FOR THE PROPER POWERS. 

  Canadians in the woods… with your own national health care, benefits ? 
  Otay, y0u get the pass.   

• Anonymous

  Not open for business, suddenly ? 

  LOL

• Anonymous

  “Under the EB-5 program, which has been in place since 1990″ 

  So is this the work of King George the 1st ? 

  LOL 

• Anonymous

  You obviously don’t have the capacity to understand this story.    As a
  former business owner myself, I know first hand the trials and
  tribulations that we all face.  Please stop the negativity now, you are
  by no means helping this state and Gervais is.

• Anonymous

  Or… look at it this way:
  Foreign investors come in, create jobs for Mainers. Maine citizens are then able to keep their homes.

  There are over 35 – that is more than half of the US – states with successful EB5 programs. Do your own research. Thoroughly and thoughtfully read the article posted in the BDN.

   

• Anonymous

  What have we come to as a country ??
  We send all our jobs overseas and turn around and bend over backwards to have
  the overseas crowd come to the USA to give us jobs ???

  Someone has been doing Bathsalts to dream that one up , and it wasnt me.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WKMXAO5JDX6BVIIBVN6ETSEBDM chuck

  how can an investor from abroad be a liability? this is fresh capital from people who want to legally live here? 

  they pass thru rigid screening and its fresh capital, no loans, no federal money just from people who has the money and wants a better life.

  I don’t understand some people who wants jobs but don’t want investors. 

• Christopher Farmer

  I suggest those who feel this is a bad thing, take a look at http://eb5jaypeakresort.com/   that is why we pursued this option.  Good Jobs are hard to come by in Franklin County.  This is not politically motivated, it was a private initiative by 3 business entities.  Saddleback Mtn, Greater Franklin Development Corp and Otis Ventures.   Also take a look at  http://www.uscis.gov   this explains how the program works