Did Barack Obama just hand our keys to China?

  Stating that the U.S. considers China, a friend and vital economic partner, President Obama discounts the American people's stand against human rights abuses. China is a friend to Corporate America. The people who only want profit from cheap toxic goods and care not if the entire United States is owned out right by Communist China, that is as long as they still have consumers willing to by their cheap crap. The American People worked to clean up after the Industrial Revolution made it quite clear our health, physically and environmentally, could not be sustained with such practices. The American Corporations just moved out, to continue exploitation on which ever nation would allow it; China did. Now China and those Pseudo-corps pretending to still be American have all the money. You and I?- A busted government ready to borrow more money from China if need be. Well I think they have enough of Our money.  It is time to cut our programs, cut our government, pay our bills and cut off the AmerChi-corps. These companies are not friends of America, they still exploit our infrastructure, and still seek our protection. They seek tax breaks on money that never manifests in Our country. They whine and win at your expense for they have the lawyers, guns and money.
                                        I hope China will protect them now.
   The New World Order is upon us, like it or not. Holding our Government responsible is only a blame game; they should not have played the game. Believing that American Corporations were American and thus loyal and entitled to citizens' rights was ludicrous. In a world where Capitalism is King, whomever has the capital is the king. Corporate America took all of America's capital and gave it to the world, to sell you the cheap and tawdry. If the people who have the wealth of this Nation don't mind my saying so, I think you should probably move to China now, before the Communist Government gives away the good spots to someone less deserving.
   What ever Will of the people is left in Washington, should be mustered as a militia to work together and save this great Country from the abyss we are so ready to jump into. Stop your infighting, stop your waste, Wake up to the truth or you have failed - the good, the right, God and Country. Your failure is the failure of the Nation, indivisible.  "In renminbi we trust" ?
                                                                  Not me, but what is left to trust anyway?
                                                                            Ms. Paula Page

A Business As Our State? Business in Our State? What is the Difference?

   First I would like to say, a business is a beautiful thing. A business works to sell. A business works independently, usually, accept when a business violates anti-trust laws. A business works to make a profit. A business often keeps trade secrets and unless forced by Government, it keeps its secrets.
Even non-profits, which are a business, turn profits. Non-profits take the profit and turn it into a service, donation or, as often is the case, payroll. A business is always a profit seeking concern. In business profit has precedence over personal considerations. A business as long as it is compliant with all current laws needs not share a damn bit of information. Of course if it wishes to stay in business long a business will share what relevant information it must about its product, service, ect. What a business will not say is "Our CEO is a drunk" or "We only hire attractive women." It is just not our need to know until someone files a lawsuit or something gets leaked to the press. That is enough on businesses.
   Let's move-on to a State Government, namely, Our State Government. For Governor Paul Lepage to even consider running Our state as a business is UnConstitutional. If the CEO of a company wants all the information vetted that is one thing, but in the State's case, You are the Owner, you are entitled to the truth as fast as it is thought of, not after it can be massaged in to a good looking spin (which is most often a flat out lie). To hog tie Our Representatives is business, not Government. First it was out with the Rules and now it is out with the information. What next - out with the people? Are we just in the way of business? This State of Maine has been set up to be "Of the people, By the people and For the people." But if we continue to accept this direction for Our Government, I must cede that it is a newly established Monarchy. Being born of and in this State of Maine, I will not yield to a king. Include the people in all the information, include the people in all the rules being thrown out and all the rules being made for them. So far all I have seen, is The king's new rules, or writs. "Make no rules" and "pass no information."
       Sorry folks but that is how it feels so far to me. I am still trying hard to hold out. I've been looking for my "benefit of doubt" for a day or two. I know I put it here somewhere. I'll be back to finish this post later. In the mean time, Have a great day, keep thinking, Maine needs you all more now than ever.
                                                                  Sincerely, Ms. Paula Page