AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage took aim Saturday at a bond package totaling nearly $100 million, saying he opposes the borrowing proposal but stopping short of threatening to veto it.
“A bond is a fancy word for borrowing money the state doesn’t have,” LePage said in his weekly radio address.
LePage said he wouldn’t accept the bipartisan bond proposal that came out of the Appropriations Committee this week until the current budget is sorted out. He’s insisting on further cuts to welfare to bring the state into line with federal standards when lawmakers reconvene May 17.
Even then, he said, “bonds are not the answer to our problems.”
Lawmakers authorized $725 million in bonds during the previous administration and there is no evidence of job creation during a period that saw unemployment grow from 4.8 percent in 2003 to 8 percent in 2011, LePage said. State labor statistics show only 54 jobs were created during that period.
The bond package that the Appropriations Committee adopted includes $51 million for transportation-related projects. Another bond would include $20 million for research and development projects that would be bid through the Maine Technology Institute. About $11.3 million would go to higher education, $8 million would go to drinking water and wastewater infrastructure projects, and $5 million would support the Land for Maine’s Future Program.
Republican Sen. Richard Rosen, the committee’s Senate co-chairman, said he was proud of the package because Democrats and Republicans came to a consensus on most items.
And in Saturday’s Democratic radio address, Sen. Phil Bartlett of Gorham said the bond package will get people back to work and create good-paying jobs.
“A real jobs package is exactly what Maine needs to give our economy a much-needed shot in the arm,” he said.
LePage stopped short Saturday of pledging to veto the bonds, but he said the state should focus on repaying $500 million that is owed to state hospitals instead of taking on more debt.
Down the road, the state should continue to reduce taxes and red tape, he said.
“If we want good-paying careers we must invest in our job creators by reducing red tape, lowering taxes and making structural changes to energy, education and welfare. These are the long-term solutions that can help revive the American Dream for Mainers,” he said.
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we can all go out and squat in the back yard. who needs a sewer? Maybe build an out house. 2 seater anyone? now that is cozy
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we have a one seater at our ocean camp, a two seater at our wildness camp. Hey we didn’t bond for either.
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Hey you are rich. Two camps!!!!
In which area does the State own water or sewer?? Towns/cities bond for their own water and sewer..
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So you say we don’t need roads well you can kiss jobs good by
What new roads do we need?? Bonds cannot be used for maintenance and repairs, only construction.
Stop making sense…lol
ALL gummint expenditures should be budgeted, not bonded. Period.
Oh yeah? But what happens when we have a “gubner” who hasn’t a clue re. budgets?
You don’t budget capital expenditures; you budget the debt service necessary to finance the expenditure.
There are roads that need to be torn up completely an redone an bonds can also by used to redo roads . I said nothing about new roads
Morgonen….Fortunately it is stuck on the right track
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Yeah, figure out your current budget before you borrow more money…..pretty radical stuff there….just like those communist dictators you reference
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Well in that case bring ’em on. If they are a good investment we should take out as many bonds as we can sell…don’t even bother to figure out the current budget before borrowing more…
It is that thinking that has us in the position that we are in.
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probably right after he steps in dog poop
Who needs roads anyway? When he’s done there won’t be any jobs or businesses.
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That is how we finance investments in infrastructure. Without bonds, we would never have that kind of money sitting around. Without roads, water/sewer systems the “job creators” will go to states that have roads and infrastructure.
Yes, an overwhelming debt burden is just such a fantastic approach to reclaiming a new era of prosperity. I mean a small family that leverages 20 or 30k in credit card debt and then struggles to pay the balance, is leaps and bounds ahead of their saving counterparts who tucked away 30k instead.
LOL….this argument is purely child’s play, as your apparant claim that there is simply no alternative to debt financing for public infrastructure exposes a severe gap in knowledge regarding basic economics and U.S. history.
No offense intended, but you are mistaken and should not mistake how a family operates with state government. It’s apples and oranges.
LOL….and certainly no offense taken! In terms of debt, there is simply no difference between a family and state government, as both are a collection of humans acting under a collective will. Saying otherwise and refuting basic reality merely implicates your current proceeds under the staus quo and distaste with those who would reveal its true beneficiaries.
Then you would apparently have no problem with a family borrowing money for a home or a car, or even as start-up costs for a new business.
I equate a home or car with infrastructure, those things necessary to provide the things that are needed for the home/government to behave responsibly, just as I equate starting a business with job training in that both should generate money for the family/govt.
OTOH I don’t support borrowing money to buy a boat while I still have outstanding debt on the snowmobile.
Bonds are like everything else -they’re fine if used responsibly.
Where was the money that was supposed to be going to Maine DOT under Democrats control . The money instead was diverted to create the massive Welfare State Maine has now. Just as with the money that Maine keeps borrowing with the bond packages it supposed to be for roads and bridges but got diverted for Welfare. I’m sorry but no more Bonds. DOT is running massive debts because of Baldy and King bankrupting the fund as they did with other accounts for their love of Welfare Programs. Maine should start to learn fiscal sanity and budget the money for roads and start building them out of the DOT Fund. Maine used to budget about 30% of the State’s Budget to roads its lucky if its 10% now because of the Budget is most of which now is either WELFARE or Education. Just Say No to Bonds and if they want to build roads either get more help from the Private Sector . Also do what other states do allow more Casinos/Horsetrack Casinos, Slot Parlors and other Gambling forms and take a percentage of that revenue for Infrastructure but no more Gimmicks from Bonds.
See?, you can’t comment on anything without trying to legitimize your argument by referring to past administrations. LePage’s problems of legitimacy are based on HIS ACTIONS, not 2 former governor’s policies.
Can you at least make one comment about THIS governor without trying to support him without referencing past administrations?
You can’t, because there is no other way you and your ALEC based supporters can legitimize him or any of his actions. Actions, such as this; a jobs bond proposal. The people of Maine want job creation, real job creation, not kissing business butt and hoping that they will be the job creators, that’s been tried and it didn’t work. Rich people got richer, that’s it.
I am working on a covered wagon as we speak, and I am going to purchase more land to have some Ox and Horses at the ready. I won’t have the money to repair my car every day at the rate these roads are going.
Well, if you’re a true environmentalist, the move to the oxen and horse makes perfect sense…
Ah ha! So you mean that’s what the republicans are actually doing-promoting environmentalism, rather than regression. Nope-too hard to swallow.
I agree but then the wheels will break or the horse will get constipated.
I think this is the only way the state can create jobs….and taxes. See I will need to hire someone to shovel up crap from the horse, or I will get some absurd fine and jail time too. Then I will have to pay a tax like motor oil to have it disposed in a proper place, if I am caught donating, selling it as fertilizer to a farmer I will be fined, and then the Farmer will be charged for not paying the tax on the pile of crap I sold him. The state is full of crap anyways, may as well do business with it.
Why not pull the pavement and go back to gravel?
Seems like there could be a cost savings. What is the differential between grading a gravel road three or four times a year versus resurfacing with asphalt every 5, 10, or 15 years.
And don’t you lefties hate all that asphalt the oil industry creates, reaping ridiculous profits?
What is with you guys?….you HATE the oil industry and then scream and freak out when we talk about what amounts to defunding the evil oil corporations you rail against day in and day out.
“If we want good-paying careers we must invest in our job creators by reducing red tape, lowering taxes and making structural changes to energy, education and welfare. These are the long-term solutions that can help revive the American Dream for Mainers,” he said.
Wrong! Investing in our job creators is doublespeak for worsening our economic equality by directing more wealth to the wealthy. This theory is completely discredited by our recent economic collapse and current lack of recovery.
The long term solution that can help revive the American Dream for Mainers is honoring our commitments to those who are doing all the heavy lifting for us–our teachers and state employees.
Governor Lepage–You are no Ronald Reagan! Not even close.
Excellent post and right on the money. This formula the conservatives continue to regurgitate just nearly bankrupted the nation. We had all we could do to save ourselves from going down with that ship and frankly we’re still listing. The Koch’s and their followers believe that as long as they continue to repeat the same old mantra over and over and over and over…well, you get it. Apparently some still don’t. (Governor?) I refuse to bail out any more of the “job creators” who do just about everything but. Excuse me, credit them for jobs in third world nations at 20 cents an hour. Trickle down, voodoo economics as George Bush once so aptly described it (these days it’s called corporate welfare ) belongs on the trash heap of history. It not only doesn’t work, it’s a threat to our national security.
Teachers and state employees – “those who are doing all the heavy lifting for us”
That’s a good one.
He is smarter than many people. How many people do you know that can manage a retail salvage store that is actually owned and operated by your brother in law, dodge the draft in Canada, get a free ride at Husson college with a sob story and be the mayor of a small dead milltown between Augusta and Bangor?
Good point. I guess we’re lucky he didn’t go to Yale.
“If we want good-paying careers we must invest in our job creators by
reducing red tape, lowering taxes and making structural changes to
energy, education and welfare. These are the long-term solutions that
can help revive the American Dream for Mainers,” he said.
Yes! Thank you, Gov. LePage!!
HA! Yeah, that’s worked out real well for us the last 10 years. Bankrupted the nation for pete’s sake and we’re being fed pink slime. No thanks, time to end trickle down economics once and for all!!
Isn’t it about time those”job creators” started creating jobs?
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I so agree with you!!! He continually talks about helping the job creators and they have created no jobs!!!
Where are all the jobs that Baldacci, King and Democrats were bringing in. Where on earth are these jobs LOL ??. Because all Mainers see is folks heading Straight to the Welfare Office, LIHEAP office, WIC , SSI/SSDI getting these lavish benefits. Liberals love to brag about how great Democrats like King and Baldacci are , but Democrats have done nothing while in office.
There were jobs when those men were governing.
Where are the jobs this governor promised to create. You must have a lot of time on your hands to watch people headed to get all those lavish benefits. They aren’t lavish by any means. Maine has the lowest TANF benefit in New England and many people struggle to survive on their meager Social Security.
Do you stake out these offices in order to ‘see’ what’s going on? This tale about people flocking to Maine for the high paying benefits is a myth.
Ahhh . . . the myth of the job creators.
If we prostrate ourselves before the 1%, reduce our environmental protections to the level of China, eliminate the minimum wage, destroy unions, get rid of zoning laws, let the poor die in the streets, and pave the Northern Maine woods, then maybe “they” will create some jobs for us.
“Job creators” is nothing but a euphemism for “extract from the working class everything you can.”
YAH I SECOND THAT THOUGHT. I HAVE HAD A COUPLE GOOD THOUGHTS BUT THE MODERATOR WON”T PUT THEM IN HERE.
“Job-creators” is one of those loony conservative words that have a huge emotional impact on people that eschew education as “snotty” and facts as irrelevant. There is quite a long list of these loonycon words that they like to toss around when intelligent people are involved in intelligent conversations. It’s discouraging that the US apparently has so many “gut reactors”.
You forgot one thing you need good roads to move the goods on
You do what you have to do Paul. We love ya.
Speak for yourself, I think he’s an ignorant buffoon who is clue less as to what sound economic policy is.
Do you know how bad our roads are now before long if he dose not get those bonds they will half to put up signs that say pass at your own risk
You do what you have to do, Paul. Resign…and we’ll love you for it.
Scott Walker the second.
Highways and residential streets in a disgusting state of disrepair. Won’t pass bond bill until he cuts welfare.
What an outlook. He is scary.
There roads right now were the speed limit is 50 but the road is bad an the speed should be cut back to 40 or less
Wolly why should we borrow money when WCSH just mentioned the other night Maine has to pay off nearly 700 million dollars in debt from borrowing. This borrowing if passed would likely add another 200 to 300 + million total (includes interest) that Mainers would have to pay back. It’s crazy its just plain stupid. Mainers are struggling with personal debts, will high taxes , bills, fuel costs (gas + heating fuels), groceries. Welfare Cases and other Handout crowds doing better than working folks now Liberals want to pile on more debt for a few projects at best. NO WAY. As I stated numerous times getting the private sector involved or alternative legalizing more Casinos + Gambling would solve the problem. Maine would be better off in the long run then we can finally get us out of the mess we are in.
Maine can only handle so many casinos you don’t need one on every cornor . That sounds great we pay off all out standing debt but how do you fix the roads in the mean time ? One person said to lease out the turnpike ok but do it by the month an a percentage the money made like casinos .
Please tell me your post is supposed to be sarcasm.
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maybe the Gov would have us go back to horse and buggy days, now that’s progress. it will create thousands of jobs. More horse breeders, vets for the horses, more farmers haying for hay for the horses, more men building buggies, more people making poop scoopers for the horse poop on the roads. and we will all save money on gas. I am so excited.
Many more people needed to shovel the poop also!!!!
LePage’s problems with job bonds is that they might help a group of people that he’s done nothing but spew hate and disgust upon since coming into office, that would be US the average Maine citizen. Worse yet would be to provide any help to those of us who have been made unemployed by the insane government spending at the Federal level for the past 11 years. Sometime someone is going to have to put people to work or we may not survive as a country. It’s clear that the private sector is more interested in investing jobs overseas because there they can pay slave wages. Perhaps in this instance and in these economic times our government needs to take the lead where the private sector has clearly failed or chosen not to compete.
Thank you Mr. Krugman…fail
The government will not put the people back to work. Ultimately, the people will just have to do it themselves….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RI38zFz9WTM
There is a quote that needs to be updated: There are liars, there are damn liars, and there are statisticians, and then there is LePage. He is a total sell-out to the ALEC, MHPC, Tea Bagger ideology that a weaker government can lead to greater corporate profits and any means to that end are acceptable.
If any one of our legislators is paying attention, they will act on this latest LePage BS. This is out and out BLACKMAIL, which is a crime, and for which he should be held legally responsible at this very minute.
We are waiting…
There is no part in this bond package that is a jobs Bond… Stop calling it a Jobs Bond which it is not. A Jobs bond would be used to loan the money to people who hire others to better their companies output. or to create industry. If you give me a millon dollars to fix pot holes in Bangor, and in six months when they are all filled and I lay everyone off, where are the jobs??? I guess I’ll need more taxpayer money to paint the lines on the street which create 2 months of part time jobs..
You would create just as many jobs giving everyone in the State $500 dollars to shop at walmart as this so called jobs bond would create.
Taxpayer funded projects don’t create long term taxpayers
So lets not paint the lines on the roads an roads are in bad shape now i was on 2 roads one was a 50 mph speed limit an that road was not fit for 40 mph an the other was a 45 the slants an dips are real bad on the other road an both of these roads a main roads they need to completely torn up base redone an hot topped
The DOT for that area submits a proposal for the repairs. We have a DOT budget for such things.. Road Bonds would go to Southern Maine to repave roads that are not in need of repair in the first place..
Goodness yes please tell us all about helping the job creators Mr. LePage. Now we are supposed to invest in them. Really. You have cut taxes for the job creators. You have cut regulations for the job creators. I know because you told all of us all about it when you signed the legislation. There just seems to be one itty bitty problem Mr. LePage. THE JOB CREATORS HAVEN’T CREATED ONE SINGLE JOB IN MAINE. There are less people working for a living in Maine today Mr. LePage then there were the day you took office. You have blamed all of Maine’s problems on the poor. You have conducted a virtual war on the poor of the State of Maine Mr. LePage. You have lied to us over and over, you have been promising jobs since before you were elected. Where are the jobs Mr. LePage? Everyday we hear about another company closing their doors or moving jobs out of State like Barber Foods. Where are the jobs Mr. LePage? Now you want us to invest in the job creators. Does that mean you want to give them State of Maine money? That is sure what sounds like. You told us if we cut taxes and cut regulations and “reformed” insurance that the job creators would create jobs. We have done those things Mr. LePage. Where are the jobs? Now you are telling us we need to invest in these job creators. Mr. LePage you are sounding more and more like a snake oil salesman everyday and hopefully the good people of the State of Maine won’t be buying your magic elixir. Invest in the job creators. How stupid does he thing we are?
I generally support the transportation and water & sewer bonds because they provide needed infrastructure improvements that are difficult to do on a pay as you go basis. Besides, it leverages federal $$$. I always wait and see what the intent is on education & technology bonds, particularly the latter. I think we need to assess what we are getting for returns on that R & D $$$ when we are such a poor state.
That brings me to the LMF bond, which I have voted for since its inception. Over the years, we have bonded more than $200 million for this mostly worthy endeavor. Sometimes used for outright purchases of land or conservation easements, it has also been part of bringing other resources together for conservation projects. There is a litany of great places the LMF $$$ has helped protect, like Tumbledown Mt., the Mahoosucs, the summit and access to Rumford Whitecap, the mountains and lakes surrounding Donnell Pond, and some of the most spectacular Downeast lakes like Duck Lake and Nicatous Lake.
Here’s why I will never vote for a MLF bond again: every one of those places and others are being surrounded by industrial wind turbines. What sense does it make to preserve Maine’s special places, then blast away, level, and scalp the surrounding ridges to put up ugly, noisy, burd and bat killing machines as tall as 45 story Boston skyscrapers? When the bad public policy that gives away Maine to the wind thieves is repealed, I will once again vote for MLF bonds. I urge people to do the same.
This man is not smart.
I have a wonderful Idea lets cut spending to all colleges in Maine equal to the sports budgets they have minus the profits the sports bring in . Then lets redistribute the money we save . It would be a lot more than the $11.3 million dollar bond . Would also reward colleges that do not waste tons of money on high priced coaches. Sport have nothing to do with education.
Could we just keep hockey, please?????
Use just fund it on your own . But college rules do not allow that So I guess not. I am thinking most the hockey player are not kids that come from poor families . It cost $50K a year per player on average . The cost of the sports could be better spent.
Actually, I agree, college is not the place for sports. We should have “clubs” as England does. It seems to me that the club type organization gives a greater number of kids and adults an opportunity to play. But …….. I do love to watch those Black Bears skate.
no, that should be the 1st to go. if people want to watch hockey, let them go to the games. i am sick of shows being preempted for hockey of all things.
Oh, no …….. hockey goes first????? Cruel, very cruel.
Well, he’s certainly giving MA-NE.net, WLOB, WGAN, and the others lots of fodder!
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Our Governor wants to create Taxpayers. Meaning full time industrial jobs.
The House wants to create temporary Jobs with taxpayer funds, then when they get laid off in 6 months they get to collect taxpayer unemployment along with taxpayer food stamps and taxpayer healthcare and taxpayer housing. Which one do you want?
How do you build roads year round in Maine ??
Well, so far your governor hasn’t created one full time industrial job. Don’t try and claim Millinocket either. That was in the works long before LePage brought us “Politics before people”
He did however manage to lose 600 high paying research and technical jobs by ignoring Jackson Labs request for help.
But what was really galling for JL was the fact that they had to go and grab the old Lowe’s bldg in Ellsworth without getting any help from Maine. That the Ellsworth City Manager had the smart’s to both see, and work with, the JL folk’s for their animal lab says a lot for her and for the Ellsworth Council for being smart enough to get out of their way and LET HER DO HER JOB,, which by the way, is to develop the City’s business environment which leads to greater business investment and job creation. Now, did Paulie screw the JL people and lose those 600 jobs to Connecticut ? No question about it, he did. Was JL smart enough to see that Paulie’s antics and temper tantrum’s are gonna be the primary reason he’s gonna get tossed next election cycle ? You bet ! That’s why JL made the INVESTMENT in the old Lowe’s place. Their coming back. They just need a stable State Government to work with so they can INVEST in their facillities and jobs with a reasonable degree of stability and certainty.Stability goes a long way in the business community. That Paulie hasn’t learned that is not just sad but tragic for Maine.
No business or research facility in the Country is gonna invest if the State’s climate is wishy-washy. With Paulie it’s one step from trying to ice skate up a ski jump ! Even Michigan’s and Florida’s R&D environment’s are getting scary given the extreme’s that their respective Governor’s have taken on State involvement in attracting or developing the business environment. Florida’s Governor, Rick Scott, went so far as to trash a $ 4 BILLION dollar State-wide rail system that could heve opened up Florida to all kinds of new investment and job’s. Instead Scott told DC “We don’t need your stinking money !” Fine, and when he did both Washington State and Texas immediately jumped on the wagon to get that money going to their State. Wanna bet what chance Scott has of getting re-elected by thumbing his nose at business and infrastructure development money ? Michigan’s State Government is one VERY short step from being ruled unconstitutional since Snyder started up these ‘Emergency Manager’ law’s that the Tea Party in Lansing got enacted thru parlimentary piracy. When the SCOTUS rules on these pieces of legislation, and rules that no Governor has the authority to declare an elected body of official’s without legal authority short of a criminal conviction for public malfeaseance, Michigan is gonna be all but primed to initiate a re-call vote on not just Snyder but the ENTIRE MICHIGAN HOUSE. The Tea Party has opened a Pandora’s Box and is now about to get the ‘Pandoring’ of it’s life. November is gonna a very rude awakening for a lot of people.
Lepage is a vile and evil man who should be opposed at every opportunity. To help Paul Lepage is to commit high treason against humanity .
So spoon feeding able adult Mainers for life is Humane…
We have to have high underemployment if we want to have an all volunteer army.
Unfortunately keeping unemployment high by shipping most of the unskilled manufacturing jobs over seas creates a class of people who become unemployable even at minimum wages.
Shoe factory jobs paid well and families survived without the help of the State. Factory jobs is just what is needed in this State to employ the people you say are unemployable. 35 thousand shoe factory jobs lost because Bill Clinton signed nafta. Many people supported families and payed taxes on those jobs. Now they collect from the tax base. I will take 1000 factory jobs over 100 high tech jobs for the area anyday. All jobs are respectable.
Let me know when you start your shoe factory I like to buy American.
Why aren’t you buying New Balance if you like American products then. Because they are doing well here in Somerset County in Norridgewock and Skowhegan . They just added 40 jobs and are planning to add hundreds more once the Natural Gas Pipeline goes in.
You can’t blame Clinton for the shoe factory’s closing. The shoe factory’s went to China. Nafta was about free trade between Canada, Mexico and the US.
Shoe factories had closed and gone to Italy and then to South America long before Clinton became president.
Purple Hyperbole, much?
LePage said he ‘wouldn’t accept the bipartisan bond proposal that came out of the Appropriations Committee this week until the current budget is sorted out’…..Bahahahahaha which will be NEVER…..has LePage even spoken with Mary Kaye Mayhew of DHHS???? Houston we have a problem.
Mary Mayhew never looks very smart in any of her pictures. Does she have a clue about what’s going on at DHHS?
Seems smart to borrow now with low rates and improve Maine by building things and putting people to work, increasing the tax base and reducing the demand for the social safety net.
725 million for 54 jobs in 8 years…
Increasing the tax base and putting people to work??? LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
725 million for 54 jobs in 8 years thats crazy
John and the Libs were buying ali’s…
That’s what happens when you have government infested with the likes of former Dem ligiscritters like Violette and McCormick.
Our governor is right.
Trying to spend your way out of debt is like putting out a fire by throwing more tires on it.
Of course you can spend your way out of debt. Ireland, Germany, the US come to mind first. Floating bonds to repair infrastructure and improve education is exactly what we need to do now. Do you think the industry and jobs that power economic prosperity will come to Maine if we let our roads, bridges, communications, water, sewer systems go to ruin. We’ve already lost 600 good paying technical and scientific jobs because we didn’t have an educated labor pool and a university system that supported biological research. What industry do you envision coming to Maine if we produce fewer high school and college graduates; more casinos with $9.00/hour job?. Now there’s a really smart path to prosperity.
If bonds produced prosperity then the streets of Maine should be paved with gold. In spite of all the bonds passed during the failed Baldacci administration many of our college graduates streamed out of the state to find employment where they weren’t treated as walking wallets for the drones infesting government.
God help us if this is the extent of intelligence in this state!
Will someone sit down with him and explain things.
It wouldn’t help.
Aint he so wicked smart. No he’ll want to balance that budget and nothin else before that. those bonds dont mean nothin except more taxes for everone under the sun. KEEP THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF THE COOKIE JAR . These bonds are things where the state borrows a bunch of money and then the money has got to be paid back with interest just like a loan(that’s what LePage has figured out) Well, interest is bad dont you know. Yes the federal government matches the dollars at 10 fed dollar for each state dollar BUT THAT IS GOVERNMENT TOO!! most big projects in the state are paid for by collecting bottles and cans and donations from rich people SO WE DONT NEED THESE BONDS!!!
I have a good idea lets buy lepenguin a bus ticket back to canada . It was a good place to hide while the rest of us went to the nam. He is not fit to leed us anywhere let alone into homelessness for all but his rich buddys and family. He is a rude bully as long as he has someone backing him up. I can’t wait for november heads will roll in augusta. Then maybe he will see the err’s of his way.
Profligate liberals are so predicable, exhibiting an uncanny fascination with voodoo economics that hold no regard for fiscal accountability. And now these parasitic embolisms have the unmitigated gall to complain because our governor has the courage to balance the books in the light of day. O’, how I love the foetid decay of a dying leftist illusion.
Mr. Quequeeg, you seem confused about about history and parasitology. Voodoo economics was Bush senior’s name for Republican trickle-down Reaganonomics and an embolism can not, by definition, be a parasite.
Ms. Jones, the Devil’s in the details. In my mind, as I assume are the beliefs of many other hard-working Mainers, liberals are renowned for clogging the arteries of healthy governments by destroying the integrity and self-esteem of the individual through the administration of failed socialist policies that result in a slow and painful death. With a little bit of hard work, Ms. Jones, I am sure that your own infirmities could be reversed in due course.
While your concern for my “situation” is admirable your knowledge of parasitology and history is still deficient. Following your characterization of Democrats as socialists I would also have to say your knowledge of politics and economics is also deficient.
What a stupid, petulant, little man. He told us he would put, “People before politics”. So far he has done the opposite.
Hostage situation?
Some hard decisions have to be made at both State and Federal levels and not everyone will like it. Bonds are not the answer …not when there was so much irresponsible spending and abuse in the system.Having had worked in the social service system and having a client who searched the internet to find where she could get the most welfare and ending up here…..something is broken.I’m all for lending a helping hand , not a handout. What Presedent was it that put unemployed back to work building damns and conservation trails ?? Good idea , at least it instilled some pride while getting a job done. After the well runs dry there will be no helping hand let alone a hand out. Back to basics , we may be uncomfortable for awhile before things are back on track .
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Not true. In fact, Maine has the most generous benefits of all the New England states. That’s why some people move to Maine, because they know that they will get medical coverage for free, and additional benefits that other NE states do not provide.
http://www.sunjournal.com/approved/story/1067660
As the above story indicates, Maine benefits are attractive to people from away, precisely because of the generous welfare and medical benefits offered by our state programs.
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Guverner, will I still get my checks?
Why is LePage such a baby. Eithier my way or no way he seems to be. Come on work with the house and senate lePage.
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Nice picture
Nice picture of Sheriff Bart alongside “Sheriff Bart” at MA-NE.net.