It is worse than he thought. But please don't you bother to think!

    Hey how about that .60% tax cut? Where are you going to spend all that? The State is in worse shape then King Paul thought, or so he says. Yet out of the kindness of his heart you get a tax break. Even though the State can really use the money and you'll never notice that extra dollar over the year. But "there's no gimmicks." Here is another piece of wonderment, brought back to us from the "old Jock" era: The $63million additional monies for education will come from the $500million in savings from the pension fund!! What? If that is not a gimmick, then as we have seen in the past, it is a flat out lie. But does king Paul stand before us and tell us the truth? The painful truth, or the sacrifical truth. No, give them a speech about more reform, try to fool the people. How about we include the people. Tell us who is going to suffer, while you give us a tax cut. You really have the old lead balls to try and send this out as a Jobs bill. Seems the economy is turning the corner without your help, with less unemployment claims again this week, and more clean energy jobs and construction coming online. Mortage rates are going up finally. So, I would hurry along your little re-pollution plan before a relative growth in economy happens. People will be less likely to fall for it as "regulation reform" if they have the advantage of a clear clean day and warm summer sun.   
      Today, when we get passed the little preview speech and see the actual numbers it should be very interesting.
And as far as the new snow dumping proposals, some of your friends have come up with a fund raiser for you! We are going to start selling soot gray snow-cones covered in Antifreeze, to support the re-election of King Lepage.
                                     We will talk again later today, be safe and have fun.
                                               God bless us and save us from ourselves,
                                                      Sincerely, Ms. Paula Page

Tough Questions For Paul Lepage At Lyman Moore

While reading the article, Lepage Fields Tough Questions At School, in the Morning Sentinel, by Kelley Bouchard, http://kbouchard.mainetoday.com,  Ms. Paula was startled by the statement that The state of Utah only spends $5,706 per pupil in their education system, while Maine spends $11,644 per student.
    How could the discrepancy be so great? Are we really wasting that many resources? Well, Ms. Paula had to find out. Here is the truth according to the Utah state government, and the Maine state government. Utah in its most recent release of figures 2007-08 spent $8,224.00 per student. Up 111% since 1970. Maine in its latest release of figures 2008-09 spent $9,625 per student an increase of 2.5% over the last report. That brings the State of Maine within $1401 of Utah in its per student spending. Utah's total spending for education for the year reported was $4.42 Billion, while Maine's Total spending for education was $1.4 Billion.
             Comparing these two states is ridiculous. Maine Ranks among the lowest in the nation with its per student spending. Maine is also the lowest spender in the northeast. I suggest that whom ever is giving King Paul his relevant data, supply him with relevant data sets. We are moving forward in a new administration that will need to find cuts everywhere, so please lets be sure to get the facts straight.
These facts came from: www.maine.gov/education/data/ppcosts/2009/geninfo
and: www.utaheducationfacts.com 
             Here is an update to this entry Sunday, Dec. 19th by: Ms. Paula Page, for some reason the link above now sends you to a Maine government page and the relevant page has been moved to the 2006-2007 document. Why? This link was in the right place and worked after the posting of this article. Now the State of Maine has hidden the 2008-2009 info in the wrong year. Well, here is the new link for this page: www.maine.gov/education/data/ppcosts/2009/geninfo.htm  . Thank you, Mike for letting us know about this sudden change in state file placement.
        To Ms. Paula education is all Maine has left to give it's children, even if they up and leave the state after we educate them. They become our ambassadors, for they are us.
                   Well, for today, I say "Be, think, Do" all of Maine depends upon you.
                                                             Bye for now, Ms. Paula