We moved to Aroostook in August of 1983 for Loring Air Force Base. We all know what a big fight Snowe and Collins did under the Klintoon Administration! They fought so hard to save it, it closed. Some hard fight THEY put up, right? Wrong!
I wish I had the President's optimism in that our best years are before us but I don't. We are losing jobs by the hundreds each month because of failed financial policies and the over taxation and red tape of business.
And don't forget the thousands of Somali's Baldacci and Rep Tom Allen brought into Lewiston in 2002. They alone are sucking our welfare system dry. Maybe all the gays Balacci is trying to attract to our state will bring in a bunch of revenue like he is saying? heh!
I've had many friends move away to the southern states to take work and leave Maine. I'm so saddened and at times it depresses the hell out of me. I'm a middle class Christian caught in a social experiment confined to the borders of this once proud state. Welfare, immigration, gay advocacy, environmentalist, anti-guns, war, Bush no-shaving lesbian NAGs, and it goes on and on.
I truly feel your pain as I am sure any Mainer reading this does as well.
Sorry about the rant. I sometimes think I should make a Public Service Announcement like the one in the 70's with the Indian standing on the highway, looking at the trash, turning to the camera with a tear in his eye. Just replace him with a white, straight, flannel shirted, male with a blaze orange hat and hunting rifle in hand and stand him on I-95 at the Kittery toll both as a Subaru goes by with a "rainbow" sticker in the rear window.
It's a pitiful state we live in. No one outside of Maine has NO clue to our plight here.
