Date Set for Billion Dollar March in Maine

StrongMaineEconomy.com ^ | 08/26/2002 | Ray Richardson

[ozone1]

The "Billion Dollar March" is on. Saturday, September 14th @ 10:00am in Augusta Maine. Please contact Ray by email at ray@rayrichardson.com

We need at least 1000 people to attend. This is our opportunity to make the leadership and the Governor realize that it is "Time to change the way Augusta does business."

Ray will be setting up a page on www.strongmaineeconomy.com later today for committments of people.

To put it bluntly, "It is time for concerned Mainers to put up, or quit whining about what the government is doing to them!"

Please join this call to bring the Legislature back to Augusta to finish the job they were elected to do.

[ozone1]

It's time for Mainiacs to demand the legislature get back into session and deal with the Billion Dollar Deficit. We have a spending problem that needs to be dealt with. Stop whining and be there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Time for a MAINE FREEP

[RetiredArmy]

Have you folks in Maine seen this!?!?!? From Neil Boortz's site today:

SOMALI INVASION HEADING FOR AUGUSTA, MAINE

Last week I told you about hundreds the thousand or so Somalis who have migrated from their homes in Atlanta, Georgia to the small community of Lewiston, Maine. Evidently one of their advance scouts discovered some rather generous housing and food welfare benefits in Lewiston – and the march was on. . Believe it or not, an Atlanta radio station which broadcasts a program aimed at Somalis, actually warned its listeners to pace their arrivals in Lewiston so that the social services system wouldn’t be overwhelmed. Sell, it didn’t work. The residents of Lewiston found their social services budget more than doubled. Tax increases are in the offing to take care of their new residents.

Well, relief may be on the way for the residents of Lewiston. The Somalis have dispatched another team of welfare scouts and have discovered Augusta! So, to the residents of Augusta, Maine. ---- get out your checkbooks. Thanks to your generous welfare program, you have company coming.www.boortz.com

Enjoy Mainers. You might want to protest this also!!!

[yikes]

Why not do what Maine did the last time it hzd a deficit (one that I was there for)and impose a snack tax on everyone? No one could agree on what constituted a snack. Isn't that what you do when state revenues are falling--impose a tax?

[Grut]

Isn't that what you do when state revenues are falling--impose a tax?

Kinda, but here in Maine the government doesn't need a reason to raise taxes.

[bandlength]

i'm surprised the WINTERS don't deter these people. usually warm weather immigrants choose warm weather states and vice versa. . .

[ozone1]

The Rats really want to expand the sale tax to everything except lawyers fees. Geeze 5% sales tax on a house?

[Sub-Driver]

And knock off the Lefty Mayor of Portland

[Sub-Driver]

I was in the Portland airport a few months ago and there was this Somali mother with her baby waiting to board a plane to DC.........it seemed so out place being in Maine, she was there with some relatives, all dressed strangely (for Maine standards that is). Never figured it out until hearing about this community in the papers. Bend over taxpayers (again)! And if you disagree it's off to the diversity gulag for you...........

[Lizavetta]

Wasn't there some western state whose welfare consisted of $100 and a bus ticket to Los Angeles....? Maybe it was a joke, I don't know, but it sounded good to me.

[ozone1]

Portland, Lewiston, Now Augusta, Shows you if you got easy welfare, they will come from anywhere.

[ozone1]

Why do you think we have a billion dollar deficit (which is 20% of the budget)?
We're do gooders up here. There isn't a state run subsidy that we haven't got.

[Sub-Driver]

Just like SF.........

[ozone1]

over here

[Chad Fairbanks]

Hmmm... the bogs up there in Maine DO have other uses, ya know ;0)

[ozone1]

Some social services are more readily available in Maine, where cities and towns offer public assistance along with state and federal agencies. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, which provides about $125 per month per family member, is available for five years in Maine, but for only four years in Georgia. And Maine provides medical care for children of needy families, while Georgia does not.

Many of the Somalis moving to Lewiston are single mothers with children. Some officials wonder if some Somalis are moving to Maine so they can collect another year of family assistance. Other officials worry that some Somali men are sending their wives and children to Maine to collect welfare, claiming they are separated or divorced, while their husbands continue to live and work in Clarkston. The concern is great enough that Ronald Munia, a program specialist with the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, recently warned Somalis when he was a guest on a Clarkston radio show that welfare fraud is a crime that could cause them to be deported from the country.

http://www.pressherald.com/news/state/020630somalis.shtml

[dts32041]

I already voted, left the state 18 months ago.

My Taxes went down My Militrary defered compensation is no longer taxed.

Unfortunately I have such a long way to drive for the Hiram Maxim shoot in July.

Remember it is the thrid weekend of July in dover froxcroft.

[ozone1]

Ah the smell of machine gun fire in the morning.......

[dts32041]

Next year though I think I want to see the Saturday Night shoot?

Understand it is the best fireworks in the State, excpet for when pingree falls of the fairy from North Haven.

[Madame Dufarge]

Also from your link. I can hardly wait until Mainers start shoveling tax dollars at the new arrivals:

White isn't surprised that, of all the immigrant groups living in Clarkston, it is Somalis who say they are unhappy.

He and other local officials say Somalis have been the most difficult group to resettle and help assimilate into the community.

Most Somalis have refused help from Christian church groups. They often see themselves as distinct from the established African-American community, even though black churches are among the first to volunteer to help immigrants. Some Somalis also maintain clan affiliations that isolate them from other ethnic groups and can lead to confrontations between Somali elders. And a fair number of Somalis have had conflicts with local police, usually over things as minor as speeding tickets and stop-sign violations.

"They fuss that we don't give them breaks," White said. "They don't feel they should be held as accountable as everyone else."

White recalls the day he pulled over a Somali taxi driver for a traffic violation. As the man stopped by the roadside, he radioed other Somali taxi drivers to back him up. Soon, several other taxis were parked along the road. White says the driver argued that he had done nothing wrong. Other drivers joined in the argument or stood by glaring. White eventually issued the ticket and moved on, but he never forgot what he saw as the Somalis' efforts to intimidate him.

[Madame Dufarge]

Unfortunately I have such a long way to drive for the Hiram Maxim shoot in July.

I heard this year was the last year for it. It became too big, too soon for the organizers to manage.