Gov. Paul LePage has vetoed a $20 million bond for research and development. He withheld his signature from four other bonds approved by the Legislature last week.
The R&D borrowing package would fund research and development investments awarded to for-profit and nonprofit labs, schools and even businesses on a competitive bid basis for capital investment, and would be administered by the Maine Technology Institute.
LePage vetoed it late Friday. In his veto message, the governor said, “If the Legislature truly believes we should spend $20 million on research and development, then we should reduce spending elsewhere in the budget and pay for it out of the General Fund.
“Second, the majority of the funds from these bonds in the past have gone to government programs and not-for-profits. Taxpayer dollars should go towards R&D only when we can demonstrate a specific return on that investment. That return must be measured in taxes and jobs. Both of those rightly come in the private sector.”
“This veto is shortsighted and bad for business,” Rep. Emily Cain, D-Orono, the House Democratic leader, said in a statement. “The governor is shortchanging future job growth and innovation in our state. Investments in R&D have paid off. They boost business, create jobs, and help our fishermen, farmers, and boat builders.”
The other bonds passed by lawmakers are:
• $51 million to fund transportation projects, including highway and bridge repairs.
• $11.3 million in higher education funds to pay for infrastructure investments at the University of Maine System, the state’s community colleges and Maine Maritime Academy.
• $8 million in water and sewer infrastructure projects.
• $5 million for the Land for Maine’s Future program, which purchases land parcels to set aside for conservation, forestry and recreational use.
These four can go to voters without his signature.
“While these bond proposals were authorized by legislators, it does not mean that we need to spend the money. I cannot personally support any of these bonds and will not vote for them at the polls in November,” LePage said in a statement. “Even with the voters’ authorization to borrow this money, my administration will not spend it until we’ve lowered our debt significantly. That could be several years.”
All five bond issues passed the House and Senate with support from more than two-thirds of lawmakers, the threshold legislators would need to override a LePage veto.
Earlier this week, legislative leaders set aside May 31 as a day for lawmakers to consider vetoes from the governor. At that time, he had not issued any after a short legislative session earlier this month.
The governor also vetoed bills to allow fraternal and veterans organizations to have slot machines and to allow the Maine Governmental Facilities Authority to borrow money for courts.
Lets pay our bills not borrow more money
Why is it so hard for people to understand that?
Thank you Governor L. Finally some common sense in Augusta.
amen!!!!
40 years of one party rule kinda does that to ya. You know Beer budget Champagne taste
Um…all of the infrastructure and repair bonds WOULD have actually created a bunch of jobs, which Maine needs. LePage…Maine job killer.
And they went through. Please read the article before directing partisan comments.
You should take your own advice and read the article. ALL of the bonds were passed by lawmakers but LePage did NOT sign any of them and says he won’t spend the money even if voters tell him to.
The first paragraph makes that clear…and you would have known that if YOU had read the article.
“Gov. Paul LePage has vetoed a $20 million bond for research and development. He withheld his signature from four other bonds approved by the Legislature last week.”
And they had a two thirds so that they didn’t require a signature to go to the people.
REVELATION:Read PAST the first paragraph.
INFRASTRUCTURE AND REPAIR BOND,the bill that I was responding to. Not R&D.
Anything longer then the average number 2 must be a terrible strain. Reading wise that is.
If an idea is profitable, for-profits will be standing in line to fund it themselves.
For-profits woudl rather the government pay for the research so they can make more profits. Just ask the Pharmaceutical and Petroleum industries.
I agree. Many have been trained to do this, but if the government isn’t going to do it, the for-profits will if there is a profit to be made.
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This is what happens when we let a minority vote rule the state….62% of votes voted against him…We need instant run off…We should let the majority….50% plus 1…run the government at the same time respecting the minority…Instead we have minority rule that disrespects the majority of voters.
Baldacci was also a minority Governor, but you dems forget that.
so let’s keep voting till we get the outcome you want.
Or keep counting and recounting until the outcome is what you want.
Republicans don’t like education, research, academics or science. They thrive on conspiracy theory, fanatic faith, and party loyalty, bolstered by preaching hatred for the poor and ‘snobby’ liberals.
This vast Elephant of ignorance is dragging us all down.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/lets-just-say-it-the-republicans-are-the-problem/2012/04/27/gIQAxCVUlT_story.html
I don’t think it was the Republicans that pretty much destroyed NASA.
First, NASA is not nearly destroyed. The mission
of NASA is to “pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific
discovery and aeronautics research”.
Its manned missions to the moon served its purpose and should not be
confused with failure. The Apollo (Moon) program was one of the most expensive
American scientific programs ever. It is estimated to have cost
$202 billion. How many times must such projects be financed in sacrifice
of other mission objectives? The truth
of the matter, as based on fact, is that U.S. companies (private
sector not government bureaucracies) are gradually taking over responsibilities
of space exploration as pioneered by the Apollo program. On April 18, 2011,
NASA awarded nearly $270 million to four companies to develop U.S. vehicles
that could fly astronauts to the International Space Shuttle.
Awarded contracts to private companies because? Oh Barry
They certainly didn’t work for it,except for a few home staters.Seeing NASA destroyed will hurt us for the rest of the century.
May I ask, what percentage of the Republican party are represented by what you’ve described?
None, and neither is the governor. We need to stop spending money we don’t have. It doesn’t matter what it is for. Strawmen arguments are all they have.
What person cuts their income when they don’t already have enough money coming in?
That is what LePage has done.
This is not income, it is credit. Bonds are loans with intrest. Taxes are a form of income for the state and he is correctly trying to increase the tax base while reducing debt.
sounds like a non-mainer. liberal. spend your way out. omg!!!!! what is wrong with these people!!
You’ll have to excuse then they spends way too much time on the computer.
I respect Mr. LePage for sticking to his principles. He’s very conservative fiscally. And he was elected fair and square.
But look at what he’s saying:
Even though more than two thirds of the legislature have voted for it and even if the voters direct him to do so, he will not spend the money on programs they want.
My problem isn’t that he doesn’t believe in borrowing money. My problem with him is he doesn’t believe in democracy.
We do not, nor ever have, live in a democracy.
We do when it comes to bond issues, which are ultimately decided by majority vote. Refusing to spend the money ASAP as directed by the majority of voters(if they pass) is undemocratic.
It is still our representatives that bring these to us to vote on. It does not change the fact that we live in a representative republic. We have politicians that have found that when they want money all they need to do is make it sound like something everyone needs and the sheep will vote yes and they get what they want. It is how they are controllimg their electorate and it benefits no one.
Are you saying wanting the roads to get fixed is “politicians wanting money” ? I guess you haven’t driven on any roads in this state lately.
The Governor (any Governor) is not the CEO of Maine, he is the Governor, who works for us and is supposed to carry out the instructions we give, either at the ballot box or through our representatives. If we tell him we want to borrow money (currently at record low interest) then he should do it.
If the people of Maine are demanding to spend money they do not have, they are idiots and should not be allowed to vote. I am sorry but you cannot build a successful economy on debt. I agree that infrasructure should be the primary function of our government. Unfortunately once a loan is taken out most of the money does not go where it is supposed to. Once we get our debt under control, we will have money that we are now paying out in interest to spend on what it needs to. We need to change things to entice businesses to Maine. That means lower taxes, lower debt and better infrastructure. To decrease taxes we need to decrease debt. Once that is done then the infrastructure will follow because the government will have more income from more people working. Demanding the governor spend money we do not have will not fix things.
Without past financed investment you would be riding to work on a horse!
No, I just wouldn’t owe so much. Do you think it is better to pay millions in interest or have millions to put into infrastructure. A comment like this just shows how much people think backwards.
Thinking Backwards?
The future is built on the past!
Tomorrow is just a future yesterday!
You personally would not owe any more or less than you do now because of bond issues or past investments in the infrastructure.
Exactly! Bring us a dictatorship! Someone who KNOWS BETTER than the electorate.
Ahh, another poor uneducated soul.
We also have a group of people who arn’t willing to accept that it costs money to maintain a society. They want someone else to pay the bill for them. They call themselves the Tea Party.
There is a difference between maintain a society and control a society. Some people can’t seem to understand that.
Yeah, Tea Party member want to control the society while everyone else wants to maintain the society.
Is there a date attached to the bill that requires the money be spent by a certain date?
and insisting that the minority be responsible for the debt that the majority demands is tyranny, it is immoral, and strikes against the very concept of human liberty and freedom (i.e. the opposite of the slavery you propose).
The tyranny of the majority is the problem with democracy…hence our republic
That’s true, it would be undemocratic for the governor to refuse to honor a majority vote. But that’s not the case here.
Good!
Stay home in November!
Perhaps you should go back to school and learn a little bit more about the country you live in.
I did!
I was a Teacher!
I didn’t get my education from Rush Limbaugh and ignore two centuries of political evolution in America!
http://www.williampmeyers.org/republic.html
Great link, thanks!
He’s operating within the framework of our state government. I don’t believe in democracy either. As 31dot stated, voting on bond items is democracy or mob rule. As far as I’m concerned, it’s the legislature not doing their job. If there’s something that needs to be done, then budget for it.
That would mean that no projects would get done that couldn’t be paid for in one year. Very shortsighted.
No it doesn’t. Very uninformed.
Unlike what you stated, two thirds of the legislature did not vote in favor of the bond issue in question. The governor had every right to veto it. That’s how our representative form of government is supposed to work. It’s one based on rules and representation, not unworkable full-fledged democracy as you implied.
This is a silly response. Republicans are the source of no child left behind after the Dems had opted out of the conversation. Everyone likes research and the other stuff, too. But realize that it is not an “investment” but more like the lottery where the players hope to get something back but the odds are unknown. This is not hatred or ignorance. Check out the non-social democratic model now being followed by the Germans in contrast to the other EU countries, specifically the euro ones. Which is the better approach? Big government that is spending 8-15% of its GDP or the ones being more cautious and not running their debt to 100% of their GDP? THINK, because we cannot continue in this current vein.
The Germans have strong unions who have representation on corporate boards.Hmmm, and they are doing better than anyone else right now.A well educated workforce,intelligent health insurance(the first country in the world to offer many such programs as unemployment)Looks like we could do a lot of learning from them.
With Repubs, it isn’t how much is spent. It is who is spending it. Look at how quickly Dubya destroyed the positive bottom line he inherited. We will all be suffering from that for years. LePage also said that if we were giving that money to his business buddies, it would be OK.
Ok, take the partisan blinders off and step in to reality. Both parties want to spend OUR money.
Calm down Sprucey, climb back in the tree.
Take a deep breath and calm down. Society will survive and advance without throwing money we DON’T have. You have no faith in humankind, people will continue to educate and research without government money. If you believe if these causes put YOUR money where you feel it’s important. But please stop you nonsense on blaming Republicans and people of faith.
Tomorrow is going to be a beautiful day, how about turning off the computer, getting dressed, go outside work in the garden and then go for a nice long hike.
It’s funny how you libs also like to portray them as “rich”. It kind of contradicts these silly statements you make.
And to make matters worse,which seems nearly impossible,he is kowtowing to old white conservatives-people who have nothing to offer and will just use up our resources while paying nothing in taxes.We will be even older and whiter than we are now.We’re doomed.
And if that is true, then where the heck do we get the money to pay for all of this? Are you going to pay for it? And what do you thrive on? You blame every problem on the Republicans. So get off your high horse and you pay for the bond issue!
So you TP deadbeats can benefit from it just like everything else?I think not.TPers and churches need to start paying something instead of dodging every dime that they should be paying.
Your attempt to portray Republicans as anti-education and anti-research, etc is not very helpful. Over the years our politicians have refused to take personal responsibility for spending. Instead, they have left the responsibility to make complicated and controversial decisions to their constituents. The governor is right in principle. It’s up our elected officials to make the tough spending decisions that need to be done, not the less informed general public.
Wonders what fumes you are breathing in high in the spruce?
I question whether LePage has the authority to not spend bond money if the bonds are approved by the voters of Maine.
I would think the Legislature could pass a law directing the State Treasurer to issue the bonds and the Governor to spend them. They work for us, not the other way around.
You’re right, they work for us, but we live in a representative republic, not a democracy. This is a good thing because every single past democracy has failed. People do not have common sense on the whole and these comments prove it. We do not have unlimited funding. We cannot keep borrowing money we do not have. We need to start spending money wisely. The government does not create jobs. The government can only make it easier for the private sector to create jobs. We cannot buy ourselves out of poverty. People need to work and earn their way out of poverty.
you are like a street I lived on once “ONE WAY”
How many jobs will his veto create?
It will not create public jobs, it will create private sector jobs. The government does not nor should it create jobs. The government can only make it easier for the private sector to create jobs. Reducing debt means we are paying less interest which will lead to lower taxes and more businesses able to hire people in our state. More people working in the private sector means more money in the state coffers. More people working for the government only means less money in the state coffers and an increase in taxes on the public which eventually leads to less jobs overall. We cannot borrow ourselves tp prosperity.
It is true that the private sector creates jobs, particularly small businesses. It is also true that the government is supposed to do all it can to make it easier for the private sector to create jobs. One of the most proven ways that government has done this is by investment in R&D capacity. Silicon Valley, the Rte 128 tech corridor in Mass., and the Research Triangle in North Carolina are all excellent examples of how public R&D investment in universities and research labs catalyzed significant private sector growth (and job growth). Small businesses (and even many large ones) need to focus on spinning research results into profitable products; except for a very few, their business model cannot support the capital investment into the long-term research that is required. This has been the role of universities and federal research labs, and overall has been quite successful (eg – MIT/Harvard/Tufts/etc: Rte 128 corridor; CalTech, UC system: Silicon Valley; NC State, Duke, UNC Chapel Hill: Research Triangle). I spent more than 17 years in University research, and am now in the private sector outside of Maine, and I can attest to the validity of this model based on my experience in both worlds.
Maine’s debt load is not unbearable, and interest rates are incredibly low. Now is the time to invest. Maine’s budget problems will not improve without growth, and investment in R&D capacity is one of the most demonstrated and proven ways to achieve that growth in the long term.
Will his veto create any jobs though?
No R&D…Jabba the Hut is leading Maine on a race to the bottom.
Pretty friggin’ underwhelming!
Keep ’em stupid and noncompetitive…that’ll make Maine open for business.
Yeah, no R&D has ever gotten done without the state being involved.
Lets study shrimp running on a tread mill. Nope already did that one.
based on your comment, I’d say the democrats have already been successful in keeping you stupid and noncompetitive…
Actually, I’m an academic (not a dirty word), and an Independent. Extensive research has demonstrated, time and again, that investment in R&D is the most powerful tool any government, local, state or federal, can use to stimulate business development and commercial viability. Simply put, it attracts business.
If this administration’s desire is to keep our state noncompetitive regarding new and advanced technologies, then its strategy is on track. I personally believe that it is underutilizing our academic institutions and research facilities. Furthermore, if entities such as Jackson, MDI, UNE, UMaine and Maine General are not funded sufficiently, then the good paying jobs that currently exist will evaporate and reappear in states where R&D are properly funded.
Lastly, your short-sighted response is reminiscent to a sixth grade, school-yard comment that really doesn’t merit any further response.
Now please, go find someone else to play with…..
Stop bringing facts into an argument, it’s not fair.
$5 million for the Land for Maine’s Future program, which purchases land parcels to set aside for conservation, forestry and recreational use.
I wish he had vetoed this one as well.
I could have sworn that I saw earlier this week that LePage had signed an anti-bullying bill. Now he is in his bully pulpit saying he won’t spend the money even if the voters authorize it. Keep it up, Paulie. Your mouth is the best weapon the Dems have in their entire arsenal.
“Government investments in R&D have paid off. They boost business, create jobs, and help our fishermen, farmers, and boat builders.”
Actually, so-called government “investments” are precisely what have brought us to our knees financially. Sure, they boost business, during the boom. During the unavoidable bust that always follows, however, they destroy business and fuel unemployment as the mal-investment that occured during the boom is necessarily corrected and the market moves back toward equilibrium.
Unfortunatley, many state representatives, such as Ms. Cain, have very little understanding of the business cylce: what it is, where it comes from, and how to crete a system that avoids the drastic ups and downs.
Nothing will change for the better so long as we continue to elect people who do not fundamentally understand the economic and monetary policy problems at hand.
Why would the Buffoon want to borrow money to fix our roads, That would mean adding jobs to people in the state of Maine.. That would mean more revenue to the state of Maine he definitely don’t want that.. He’s trying to bankrupt us.. Why would he want to spend money to educate us, if he did that then the other half of the people of Maine would know that he is not doing all he can for the people of Maine.. Why would he borrow money for the sewers and water projects, he don’t want to see us working and making money to re-spend in our state to stimulate our economy. Forestry and land conservation is another thing he don’t want cause that means less land for the Canadians to pilfer.. This buffoon wants to ruin our state and kill our economy he does not have the people of Maine in mind at all.. Just his own agenda, drummed up by Nordquist and Alec which may i remind you are starting to lose ground..
HE should have veto more…..
LeBuffoon strikes again. Don’t worry LeBuffoon. Come November, when we send your TeaFool helpers packing, we are going to turn your ignorant carcass into the lamest lame duck ever known to politics.
Republicans: against science, against research, against development, against INTELLIGENCE and against REASON. But great supporters of IGNORANCE, LIES, and IDIOCY. And this is news?
What a well thought out post. Your true talents are surely wasted here.
I got to agree with Gov.LePage. The people in the US pay substantially more for prescriptions than other countries, why? to pay for research. The pharmaceutical companies have plenty of money for research & Maine doesn’t. People fresh out of college have to leave our state to make a livable wage in order to pay their school loans. Why would anyone want their tax bill to go up for this bond, when the researchers leave and maybe never come back? I don’t see where the Gov. is againist science or any other purpose for the other bonds, he is trying to bring our State back to fiscal sanity. The past several Administrations have spent tax dollars unwisely and we have had little to no accountability from our past majority State Legislators; many quasi-state agencies have been found very wasteful and fradulant, and the Administrations came up with gimmicks to sweep their unpaid hospital bills under the rug, etc., etc., So now the Republicans are in the majority and would like to clean up the damage of the past 40 years (while they were for some reason in the minority). People commenting here are like in major dysfunction mode, they have been in Democraticolism for so long they don’t know what fiscal sanity looks or feels like! So be patient people it takes awhile to come out of 40 years of economic dysfunction.
Paul “The sadist” Lepage was delighted to illegally give $17 million of Maine taxpayers money to his cronies up at Brookfield Management of Toronto Canada. So why dose he oppose spending money to develop Maine? Is it because he is grateful that Canada gave him a temporary wife and two little girls to live with until the Vietnam draft ended and he could slip back into the US?
You think Canada loved him for the Brookfield freebie, just wait ’till the Cianbro lottery starts ! Every Canadian subcontractor east of Thunder Bay is gonna be lining up for the E-W Highway to get in on that gravytrain, especially when Maine’s footing the bill, courtesy of Paulie. What hasn’t been looked at is the FACT that when Cianbro goes and tells Maine that they want a particular piece of land for the Highway that someone is gonna have to pay for it, if Maine wants to avoid the eminent domain court suit’s that are already being put together. Since no less than Paulie and Company have publicy stated that Cianbro does not have the authority to declare eminent domain, that means that Maine is gonna have to do ‘the dirty work’. It means that Maine IS GONNA HAVE TO PAY FOR THAT LAND. Now what is Maine gonna pay it with ? Can we all say ‘BOND’ ? And Paulie is against bond’s ? Who is running the zoo ’cause it needs someone.
As much as I believe in fiscal responsibility and leadership, I believe in integrity more. LePage has done nothing more than demonstrate that he’s all for the private sector screwing the public in order, and regardless of the cost, to make a buck. Paulie has clearly demonstrated who’s payroll he’s on by refusing to invest in Maine’s future by turning over Maine’s future to the private sector in order for them continue this rape of the public’s trust and hope. If Cynthia Dill has any nerve left, then I for one would suggest that she muster ‘it’ up, starting right now, and gear up for the next round of State-wide election’s since all of this is gonna hit at about the same time. And the minute that Maine has to float a Bond issue, on behalf of Cianbro’s Highway, there is no where that any ‘fiscally conservative’ Republican or Tea Party’r is gonna be able to hide behind and deny affliliation. So go ahead Paulie. Put Maine’s head on that pole for all to see. Just make sure that the State GOP (Hey, Charlie. You out there listening?) doesn’t have one for you when this whole thing comes apart right in time for the next Governor’s election. Like the man said, ‘Go ahead and make my day’. At this rate that day’s coming a lot quicker than anyone realizes. And now that everyone has a map, they can follow along.
As always,great well thought out post.More please.I’ve talked with a representative of a Canadian trucking co. who said they can hardly believe that this is falling into their laps with no effort or expense on the part of their government.His exact words were”We’ll kick your (beep)”with a big smile on his face.
Agreed. Since when has Canada ever had to spend anything when they have someone else doing their bidding ? Maine’s gonna get the reaming of it’s life if this nonsense keeps up. What’s worse is that we have Legislator’s in Augusta that are willing to go along with this too, in both Party’s. Who do they think is gonna be the one’s to build the Bald Mountain mining operation ? Here’s a big hint. It’s one of the the Governor’s biggest campaign contributor’s. Who stands to both gain, and get their financial ‘chestnut’s’ out of the fire, when this whole area is opened up for unlimited development ? Look at the recent Mining Bill and see who’s name is on it if you really need that much of a hint. And don’t start with the old arguement that it’s never gonna happen. Please, are we all so braindead as to not see it coming or are we so determined to be willfully stupid that we are gonna sacrifice our, and our children’s, future’s simply to make SOMEONE ELSE A PROFIT and we get ‘zippo’ out of it besides some minimum wage job’s ? If these 2 project’s are so critical, and needed, by these Canadian companies then it’s about time that the Maine Legislature got off it’s collective keester and told, not begged like a sick puppy, these Company’s and their sidekick’s that if they want to do business in Maine then they are gonna do it for both their, and Maine’s, benefit. If they balk and suddenly say ‘No way unless it’s our way’, fine. Let’em go and good riddance. The last thing Maine needs is a repeat of the Kestrel fiasco.
And in case anyone has somehow forgotten their Basic Business 101 and Economics 101 course’s, any single business opportunity not taken advantage of by one business is still there for any other business to explore. In short, Maine does not need a shotgun wedding simply because someone is telling us that Maine’s ‘daughter’ got ‘knocked up’ just on their say so alone. It’s up to all of us to make our voice’s, and vote’s, heard and counted. Remember, register early and never, ever, let someone tell you that your vote doesn’t count. That’s how Bush got the Florida vote. Maine knows, and deserves, better. So do our kid’s.
Amen.EVERYTHING proposed by this crooked admin.needs to be put under microscopic scrutiny.I can’t even keep track of the revolving door of dept. heads so far.Rats deserting a sinking ship.
You mean skipping Vietnam just like Cheney,Nugent and Romney?
Hence, and as I said before, he has legitimized the Senate President’s and Speaker’s decision NOT to adjourn cine die (in other words officially end the session, cine die means “without day”)
Now, when he line item vetoed the budget bill, they wouldn’t re-convene, but AMAZINGLY, they anticipated this. What a crock. If you don’t think for a minute that they already knew that LePage was gonna veto that bill, then I think I can sell you a bridge.
Obviously, we know who is running the legislature, and it’s not the Senate President nor the Speaker of the House.
You may be able to sell that bridge but I wouldn’t trust Fatso to walk over it.Oh wait,problem solved(splash)
I think we need to get a few more Dems in the ligislature this Fall and revive the petition of recall procedure.
Way to go Paul !!!!!
We don’t need a $20-million pork barrel for Emily Cain’s constituents. Screw her and the horse she rode in on.
You know, i’m a demacrat but i support LegPage on this one. We only have so much money from taxes. If they want it to stay, cut someplace else. Like WELFARE!!!
By the time the consequences hit the fan, he’ll be living in Florida.
$95.3 million, ok all you smart Democrats, where the heck are we going to get the money to pay for all of these bonds? hmmmm, what a surprise you all want a free handout!
So what about the roads what would you do with them just let them go an fill in pot holes ?
Let’s ask this question. Do the dollars to pay down the debt for bonds stay in Maine?
Now that’s a question that Paulie needs to be asked in an open press conference ! The look on his face, and his answer, are gonna be awfully revealing.
I agree there has to be a bit more oversight and return on investment for any funds provided in R&D. I worked in one where the highly paid scientists made model rockets and launched them on company time. I never knew them to develop anythig beyond a piece of paper at the time. Of course, that is part of the research process, but a lot of money goes into producing that paper.
One of the problems I see here is the Governor’s myopia. Why not borrow now when interest rates are at historic lows to invest in future growth?
For example, why cut Head Start funding when research shows that every $1 in Head Start funding generates $9 in savings to government? Benefits include increased
earnings, employment, family stability, decreased welfare dependency,
crime costs, grade repetition and special education.
Business borrows for capital improvements all the time, and research and development is really an investment in (intellectual) capital.
The governor’s trapped in poverty thinking. He won’t spend a dime to make a dollar.
Typical Republican thinking. Lets stop funding the learning of new things or creation of new products unless we can cut from somewhere else, meaning take from the poor and give to the rich.
WtF……….
Paul,
MTI is a taxpayer leach in Maine and shouldnt be given “any” funding what so ever.
What many of us want to see is a balance sheet of jobs created versus taxpayer money spent.
Well finally someone realize that the Republicans don’t want us to have good education or anything just as long as they continue to get us to believe what they say and so far they have not even come up with anything to help Maine but a lot of cuts that hurts Maine people and family and our kids. So where is the money that this governor says he is saving, where is the money going there is a lot of questions that has not been answer from our governor just cut this and that and leave us people with nothing. So the people of Maine voted for him and this is what he is doing to us. I hope Maine people WEAK-UP and stop smelling the roses for this governor don’t care about anything but lying to us and scary us so we don’t see what he is doing to us and the money he pays for the people he hired to work for him is no better. Sorry but this is a women who parents grow up with and live in NY thru the bad times and war and during those time they told me story that I didn’t believe till they got in and if they were alive today I would tell them I believe you now. So I don’t trust the Republicans in what they say or do for they are nothing but a bunch of lies and the way they scary us. Maine people it is time to step up and stand up and speak for yourselves and stop being scar of this governor he is just like us a human being and nothing else and so far he never walked in our shoes and until he can walk in our shoes he should listen to us for we voted him in for his promises which now I find that it was nothing but lies he told us so he can get voted in. So for as long as you continue to believe what this governor say and his people we will be stuck in this mess. So far he has not done one thing to bring business to Maine or anything that will put people back to work so they can support their families etc. So Maine people what are you going to do about it are you going to standby and let this governor continue to scar us or stand up for yourselves? I know what I will be doing when voting comes up in June and Nov.
Any politician – even down to the “select” man /person level – who will not participate in the education and pursuit of Monetary Reform – is not worth the paper their election ballot is printed on …
… because THIS is an issue that underlies nearly everything else in our world.
Learn about “fractional reserve banking”.
It’s about USURY = debt-slavery.
All these other little dweeble-brained politician cop-outs – are busy running around chattering about – symptoms – instead of addressing the cause of this financial (so-called) “crisis” : keeping the “news” occupied with diversions.
… all the way BACK to Jesus’ – throwing the money-changers out of the temple. The same “money-changers” are STILL holding our Temple (human sovereignty) by our THROATs.
THESE are the entities who operate the governments – along with the (so-called) “elections”.
Different centuries, same cause-and-effect. Wake UP humanity … it’s getting rather late.
the Gov. should have vetoed every bond issue, we can no longer afford to continue, as in past administrations.
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