March 25 ,1820? It's Just Like Starting Over.

    Here we are on the precipice of a New Year, a new State Governor and perhaps, and this one's up to you, a New State. With the new year comes that great implied hope for change or something new, different and not like other years. This year more than any other, Maine will need you to get involved, to stand up, have your voice heard and demand results. When Maine fought for statehood, it was because Mass-o-2-shits would not stop their oppression of our Maine people. Maine was not represented it was controlled. Here we are again, with government telling us what it will do or not do. What it will cut, eliminate and create. I have Had it.
       Out of State politics belongs out of state, and the out-of-staters running our state as if they know what is good for Maine is PIG swill. It is still we the people. We pay, and not for what we want, but for what we get. The same lack of representation of the 1800's is here now. Some of this is truly our fault; we have become numb, complacent and disenchanted. We have allowed ourselves to believe the political lie that we, you and I, have done this to ourselves. Beyond our acceptance of Their facts, we are guiltless.
          The Government itself has perpetrated The Great America Give-Away. Surrendering us to Corporate America, while Corporate America held us hostage under the threat of Their failure. All the while republicans cried about the redistribution of wealth to the lower classes. They truly left nothing to redistribute. They stole the wealth of the Nation under the guise that their corporate friends should be saved. They convinced us we could save ourselves. Fools we are.  Now the same group that stole the money, says "you can not tax us, we create the jobs." Lies. They do not create jobs, they create profit and only that, or they have failed. The only jobs created in the last 5 years have been government make work jobs, Homeland Security and the TSA. Sadly, though in reality, both of these new institutions were created to protect business and not us. Corporate America does not wish to pay for their own protection, or pay taxes. We pay for them. Yet, the Corporate monster spreads its wings round the world grabbing wildly with its claw like talons, seeking only profit, with no responsibility. 
    Jobs will not fix Maine. A new Governor will not fix Maine. If you want to have a rite-aid, cvs, wal-mart, ding-dong doughnut, or what have you, on every corner, than you can just continue with the old flow of the years gone by. And believe the lie that it will help. You can just stand there and out of the corner of your eye watch Maine disappear, into overdeveloped worthlessness. But I no longer can.
         This year have your say, let everyone know, this is your state. You have a right to expect results for what you want. Not what the force will feed you. They will make a lot of excuses this year. There is no excuse for failure. Especially when you are paying the bill. God Bless Maine, and all of us.
Keep your hopes high, your mind sharp, and Have a great New Year.
                                                        Wishing you all the best, Ms. Paula Page