Maine has the distinction of being the worst place to set up a business and has like Michigan the worst job market in the country. It is the 3rd poorest state in the nation, it has the largest state government rivaled only by California, (pending the cuts to their budget of course) and the 3rd highest tax burden in the nation.
Maine does not have jobs or affordable housing, Maine only has Big government and programs funded by its expensive and massive bureaucracy. Programs for teenage whores and their bastard litters, programs for homeless drug addicts that refuse to drop the pipe get help and move to another state to get a job but rather keep them homeless and programs for disabled adults which generally do very little to make them independent. Since Maine does not have jobs or economic opportunities, the disabled can forget equal treatment and being balanced on the same level as normal healthy adults.
I and a few of my associates got in touch with Maine Department of Health and human services and found that there are more programs than imagined for different groups. Going down the line through the disabled adult section there were only 3 programs that were at all efficient. The Phoenix employment program, OHI and The Community Living Association.
Before going into them in detail, I should note that the Main reason they are in any way efficient is because these programs started out as non profit charities that relied on donations and volunteer activism. It is commonly known that social programs that are privately run and owned without government strings attached run far better than those funded through taxes and administered by the state. Their efficiency is generally much better if they are sectarian rather than secular.
The reason is because though they get no profit, they donate and volunteer because they have a heart for those who they serve. Government is not interested and has no heart. It simply pays out to the piggies squealing at the tax trough for more liberal votes while at the same time reaching its tentacles around to promote control and oppression over its subjects. Government programs are administered by bureaucrats who do not care and wish only to line their pockets and bribe the voters. These programs tend to waste the money intended on pork projects and bloated salaries. They are also lax in their work since they are not motivated.
The Phoenix employment and rehabilitation program is a temping agency that teaches job skills and employs those who suffer severe physical or mental disabilities or mental illness. In addition to job skills, they employ clients to various work duties. Their pay is supplemented from donations and tax dollars. Many of the clients also receive SSI and SSD benefits.
AJ, who suffers from Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is one of those clients. He is also a client at OHI. AJ works four days a week doing various tasks such as breaking down boxes and putting labels on wine bottles. Mike is another client who suffers from severe mental illness and does custodial work at the police station in Brewer. Despite having disabilities, the clients work very hard and diligently.
OHI, or occupational Health Incorporated, was founded by a former special education teacher to rehabilitate disabled adults, specifically adults with mental retardation and mental illness. The first clients were former inpatients at a state school that abused those they were supposed to take care of. In response groups such as OHI were formed after the school closed down in the 70s. Today, Ohi now is involved with other clients from different backgrounds including the elderly. Unfortunately due to the Maine economy, the personal growth of its clients is also hindered.
The Community Living Association was founded in Houlton Maine in 1967 by fa miles with disabled children. It was a private initiative to make their children independent in the community. At first they did an excellent job, but now that they have been incorporated into the BIG government, they are not as efficient. Also, northern Maine is not really one of the best places to be independent,
Looking down the list the other programs offered some but little results. The most wasteful of them all involved families. These generally paid out middle class wages to mothers of bastard children while the taxpayers that support their poor decision making must have their meager earnings taken to support this. A good friend of mine told me of how one such individual, a 19 year old girl with three children received about 2100$ a month and rent free housing. She also received food stamps. When offered employment she turned it down saying, "why do I need to work for? I get $2100a month!"
That's Socialism in Maine. Out of the mouths of the poor and weak, into the pockets of government and welfare queens.
The saddest part of the story is that many disabled are unable to climb high and soar high thanks to the Maine economy. What's worse is that while hard working
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What the heck do you mean Maine has the worst economy? Where did you get that from? The economy in Maine is just fine. In fact we are one of the richest states in the nation!
There's more to Maine than Washington county or Houlton or some of these other rural towns. Bangor, Ellsworth, Augusta, Lewiston, Portland, Orchard Beach, Kittery, just to name a few of the places to get a job.
I came here with my husband to Maine to work as an RN at EMMC in Bangor. I like it here better than anywhere else. It didn't take long for my husband to land a job as a supervisor at our local Hannafords. That's because he is more educated and skilled than you right wing lunatics are.
Maybe the reason you can't land a decent job here is because you have no social skills and spend too much time in front of your computers cursing the world all because Bush is no longer in charge of things here. Why would anyone hire a bunch of right wing extremists like yourselves?
But maybe its better you go live in some of those hick states like Texas. Leave this place nicer for the rest of us.
Another thing, this blog promotes propiganda against taxes and spending to fool people into a system that has always failed. Each time we have cuts in taxes in spending we have a recession. When FDR made tax cuts and spending cuts, the depresion got worst. The past 8 years, we had tax cuts spending cuts small goverment and we have had the worst economy since the last depresion. The same happened when Ronald Reagan was in charge.
My son has Asperger's syndrome and those programs have been a big help in getting him independent. He is now learning social skills and living skills. You republicins don't want kids like him to have the same advantages of other people. If it were your way, he would still be unemployed maybe even homeless.
You need to grow up.
You can read several articles on the internet and on magazines like Forbes. In fact I posted an article from Forbes magazine that showed what a mess things are. It was a list of 50 best states for business. Maine not surprisingly was at the bottom with Michigan, California, Rhode Island and some other states run by southern Democrats.
I'd like to know WHERE did you read that Maine is one of the richest? It certainly isn't. And Those cities you listed are the pits, especially Ellsworth. There is not a whole lot of difference between the country and the city in Maine. the big cities like Portland are only one notch better.
I came here with my husband to Maine to work as an RN at EMMC in Bangor.
Yes, you are working for the big government. Eastern Maine Medical gets big bucks from tax payer funded medicare, Mainecare and other subsidies. Of course that explains why you love communism so much.
BTW, where are you from originally?
didn't take long for my husband to land a job as a supervisor at our local Hannafords. That's because he is more educated and skilled than you right wing lunatics are.
Slam dunk arguements. Anyone who doesn't agree with you is a right wing lunatic. Since Hannafords donates its profits to left wing immoral causes like abortion, he is also a communist too.
Maybe the reason you can't land a decent job here is because you have no social skills and spend too much time in front of your computers cursing the world all because Bush is no longer in charge of things here. Why would anyone hire a bunch of right wing extremists like yourselves?
And yet another liberal debate point. If you can't land a job in a conservative state its because of heartless republican politicians. To blame the unemployed person is to blame the victim. But if its in a liberal state like Maine, the victim is to be blamed on and the government is not accountable for how its policies are destroying economic oppertunities.
No social skills? Really? Blaming the victims again. WE actually work for a living. Most of us do work because we left that left wing hole.
But maybe its better you go live in some of those hick states like Texas. Leave this place nicer for the rest of us.
Suits me, I live in Somersworth NH. Lots better than Maine. Keep your communism before it collapses. I want nothing to do with it.
Another thing, this blog promotes propiganda against taxes and spending to fool people into a system that has always failed. Each time we have cuts in taxes in spending we have a recession. When FDR made tax cuts and spending cuts, the depresion got worst. The past 8 years, we had tax cuts spending cuts small goverment and we have had the worst economy since the last depresion. The same happened when Ronald Reagan was in charge.
Its coming clear now that you are the one deluded. (its spelled propoganda BTW) You are the one decieving. We have recessions because of communist government controls and regulations against businesses and that prevent their creation and with them jobs. The past 8 years came from Clinton and from a Democrat congress that raised gas prices. Ronald Reagan inherited his recession from Jimmy Carter. Bush Inheirited his from Clinton. The economy was falling apart in his final year. The liberal media covers it up however to make socialism look better than capitalism.
The recession we have is because Clinton forced banks to give unrepayable loans to welfare recipients. Carter did the same.
Also the Great depresion was prolonged by FDR and his new deal. The depresion would have ended 4 years earlier if it were not for him.
My son has Asperger's syndrome and those programs have been a big help in getting him independent. He is now learning social skills and living skills. You republicins don't want kids like him to have the same advantages of other people. If it were your way, he would still be unemployed maybe even homeless.
Your son does not have Asperger's. Your son was put in a school where the teachers tolerated bullying and then got the psychiatrists to blame him for it by creating a fake label so they could avoid accontability. Also you don't let your son out of the house enough.
BTW, I met with a client who was made homeless because of a fake diagnosis of Aspergers. Those programs you support and gloat over made it possible. They supported his abusive father against him and he ended up in Skid Row Los Angeles. Nice job you damn commie!
You need to Grow up. Its you who is in need.
When I lived in Maine it took me 6 months to get a job. Any Job. It only took me a week to get one in Nebraska.
I know several people who had similar experiences. No jobs in Maine but when they went to Kansas and Texas they got one.
I also lived in Lubbock Texas. Took me 2 weeks to get a job there.
Your husband probably is a communist. I don't know him, but Hannafords is a communist store chain, they promote abortion and other evils. Since Hannafords is a big chain with stores all over the North east, they can absorb the costs more easily and just force them on the consumers. That's why groceries are more expensive in Maine and Massachusetes than in Other places. That's without taking into account the sales taxes.
My son has Asperger's syndrome and those programs have been a big help in getting him independent.
Why did they say he had Aspergers? Was it because he was persecuted in school? Was it because he was unemployed? What sort of physical evidence do you have?
Your son is the way he is because he doesn't get out enough and because schools don't enforce anti bullying rules. Your son couldn't get a job because he lives in a communist state like Maine. They labeled him so that they can find an excuse for why they don't care. The perfect way for the schools and the government to avoid accountability for its failed policies.
I met with a client who was made homeless because of a fake diagnosis of Aspergers. Those programs you support and gloat over made it possible. They supported his abusive father against him and he ended up in Skid Row Los Angeles. Nice job you damn commie!
Yeah I know who he is. He lives in California, a state that is almost as bad if not worse than Maine.
Maine, the way communism should be!
I'd like to know WHERE did you read that Maine is one of the richest? It certainly isn't. And Those cities you listed are the pits, especially Ellsworth. There is not a whole lot of difference between the country and the city in Maine. the big cities like Portland are only one notch better.
I got it from a national census. I also looked up several websites. Places like Ellsworth and rural Maine are poor but in most of Maine there are jobs and business is fine there.
Forbes magazine is just some Neo-Con hack job that prints lies. They give high marks to any state that has reganism and low marks that doesn't. Texas and Nebraska don't have very good paying jobs like in Maine. Most people there are poor like in rural Maine. Portland, Lewiston, Augusta and Bangor and some places in the southern portion have very good infrastructure and business and does well.
Yes, you are working for the big government. Eastern Maine Medical gets big bucks from tax payer funded medicare, Mainecare and other subsidies. Of course that explains why you love communism so much.
BTW, where are you from originally?
We came from Florida. A run down red state where everything costs more and there is homelessness and racism. My son could not get a job in your little red state unlike in Maine. He got hired with help from his case worker at OHI and it took him only a month. I guess things really are great up here after all.
Slam dunk arguements. Anyone who doesn't agree with you is a right wing lunatic. Since Hannafords donates its profits to left wing immoral causes like abortion, he is also a communist too.
We are not communists! We are not members of the communist party or any party! Certainly not my husband! You just think were reds because we don't agree with you! That is typical right wing garbage!
We have recessions because of communist government controls and regulations against businesses and that prevent their creation and with them jobs. The past 8 years came from Clinton and from a Democrat congress that raised gas prices. Ronald Reagan inherited his recession from Jimmy Carter. Bush Inheirited his from Clinton. The economy was falling apart in his final year. The liberal media covers it up however to make socialism look better than capitalism.
Oh! Yes! The Liberal media is lying to us. How could I forget. You right wingers always claim that everyone that doesn't work for Fox News is a liberal and is biased. When clinton was in charge everything was very good! Our economy has worsened under Reagan and Bush.
The recession we have is because Clinton forced banks to give unrepayable loans to welfare recipients. Carter did the same.
Also the Great depresion was prolonged by FDR and his new deal. The depresion would have ended 4 years earlier if it were not for him.
That is not true. there are people not recieving welfare who can't pay their interest because their jobs were sent overseas and because the banks charge more interest. You say Im blaming the victim how can you say that when you are blaming the welfare recipients. You republicans are always blaming the poor for being victims when it is because you take away economic oppertunities with spending cuts to programs. So in other words its because of welfare recipients. Under Bush we cut funds to them and gave it to rich people and for military spending! Shame on you!
Your son does not have Asperger's. Your son was put in a school where the teachers tolerated bullying and then got the psychiatrists to blame him for it by creating a fake label so they could avoid accontability. Also you don't let your son out of the house enough.
Again, blaming us for causing this. wrong. Our son was diagnosed by a certified doctor because of his poor social skills and because of his awkwardness.
BTW, I met with a client who was made homeless because of a fake diagnosis of Aspergers. Those programs you support and gloat over made it possible. They supported his abusive father against him and he ended up in Skid Row Los Angeles. Nice job you damn commie!
How on earth did government programs make him homeless? Why are they responsible for his parents actions?
No, you all need to grow up.
When I lived in Maine it took me 6 months to get a job. Any Job. It only took me a week to get one in Nebraska.
I know several people who had similar experiences. No jobs in Maine but when they went to Kansas and Texas they got one.
I also lived in Lubbock Texas. Took me 2 weeks to get a job there.
Your husband probably is a communist. I don't know him, but Hannafords is a communist store chain, they promote abortion and other evils. Since Hannafords is a big chain with stores all over the North east, they can absorb the costs more easily and just force them on the consumers. That's why groceries are more expensive in Maine and Massachusetes than in Other places. That's without taking into account the sales taxes.
The jobs in other states don't pay very well. My son is disabled and he got hired in one month later. Also Hannafords supports many good causes in the community. I don't see how letting a women choose to terminate a pregnancy is evil. How can you value a lump of flesh that has not become human when you are bombing children in Iraq and Afghanistan? Also groceries are not expensive. I don't see it.
Why did they say he had Aspergers? Was it because he was persecuted in school? Was it because he was unemployed? What sort of physical evidence do you have?
He was diagnosed for having poor social skills and because he is awkward and spent most of his time preoccupied with role playing games and books about them. It took most of his time. He did not go out often, he was isolated, and he was lonely. He was diagnosed by a certified doctor.
Your son is the way he is because he doesn't get out enough and because schools don't enforce anti bullying rules. Your son couldn't get a job because he lives in a communist state like Maine. They labeled him so that they can find an excuse for why they don't care. The perfect way for the schools and the government to avoid accountability for its failed policies.
And where may I ask Kyle did you get this paranoid idea from? I told you already why, and he is working. He is getting SSI next month and then we are going to move him into an apartment.
This is nothing but propoganda. (thanks for the correction. It was only a typo.) Maine is great. There's nothing wrong here. You just don't want people like my son to have the same advantages that others have. Tax cuts and spending cuts are whats causing the recession.
This is nothing but propoganda. (thanks for the correction. It was only a typo.) Maine is great. There's nothing wrong here. You just don't want people like my son to have the same advantages that others have. Tax cuts and spending cuts are whats causing the recession.
Riiiggght... You're the one being paranoid. Why would we not want your son to be independant. The only reason he's having problems is because he is being restricted. Get your kid of the books and get him outside. Also just because kids bully him doesn't mean he has poor social skills! That's not fair! You're blaming the victim! Shame on you!
The jobs in other states don't pay very well. My son is disabled and he got hired in one month later.
Many jobs in red states pay well, especially since unlike places like Maine they don't tax your pay check.
Where does your son work?
I got it from a national census. I also looked up several websites. Places like Ellsworth and rural Maine are poor but in most of Maine there are jobs and business is fine there.
Forbes magazine is just some Neo-Con hack job that prints lies. They give high marks to any state that has reganism and low marks that doesn't.
So if the big government says one thing, they are always right? Not all the states that had high marks practiced reaganism. A few liberal states that aren't as oppresive came out on top. Washington and Minnesota for example.
I think it is you who is paranoid.
Yup, just another liberal whack job.
If you can't get a job in Texas its because your a victim. If you can't get a job In Maine or some other communist liberal fiefdom, your mentally retarded. Typical.
If the grass is so much greener in Maine, California or some of these other liberal states, why are people moving out? Why are factories closing down there?
My son works at Walmart. He works afternoons and nights 4 times a week. He also recieves SSI. Im not saying the government is always right. Im trying to say that Forbes magazine is biased in favor of conservative or at least middle of the road states over liberal states. That article you posted had more to do with climate for setting up small business not how many jobs there are. Texas, Florida, Nebraksa and Georgia got high marks but they do not have very many jobs. I know because I lived in Florida for 15 years. My sister lived Texas and it is a wasteland. No one is working there in some parts of the state. CNN Money Magazine gave better ratings for Maine. It ranked close to Texas last I checked But Its still way better than most places.
Oh, that's it? Wal-mart? He's not working a living wage job? Isn'
t things supposed to be better in Maine than Florida?
trying to say that Forbes magazine is biased in favor of conservative or at least middle of the road states over liberal states.
Really? Well FOrbes magazine is right about one thing. Things are WAAAAAYYYY Better out west than Maine.
It is better here than in Florida. Forbes Magazine simply scored points on business climate. Just because Georgia or Texas are nice places to set up a business doesn't mean that its a nice place to live. The gave Virginia high marks but many people in the state are dirt poor. Same with Texas and Georgia. Maine is far far better than in Those places in many respects.
There are a higher percentage of people who are poor and out of a job in Maine than in Texas or Georgia or even Florida. Forbes scored based on how easy it is to set up a business. If its easy than that means more people will set up there, translating into more jobs and more revenue. Maine is given worse ratings by many other people. Maine is considered the worst place in America for business. Why do you think Maine and Michigan were the only states not affected by natural disasters to lose jobs and go into economic decline? You can't get a job in a state like that.
Forbes Magazine is right on the money as are many others. Not surpisingly, leftists like you poo pooed these articles as being writen in republican lenses. Those are actually realistic lenses. If I run a business and a large percentage of my profit goes to paying fees, taxes, licensing ETC, I won't have enough to hire new workers and pay the ones I have higher wages. If expenses increase, I may have to cut back meaning those people and their families will be stuck with nothing. Everytime the government raises taxes or fees in places like Maine which rely heavily on small business, jobs are cut and wages decrease. Its happened in Maine and its going to get worse until there is reform and marxism is thrown in the garbage where it belongs.
The reason it happened in Maine and Michigan is because of job outsourcing and because Maine is mostly rural and does not have enough infrastructure. Jobs and housing are not created by low taxes. If they were we would have a boom now.
The magazines promote republican bias. They ignore the real reasons why we have problems like the ones I mentioned. They should not be allowed to outsource to other states to avoid being taxed and pay fair wages and employ the poor. That is why we have problems. Regulating business to produce more and hire more and mandate what they are to do and can't do will ensure higher productivity and employment.
Got it. So any source of information that makes a point you disagree with must be biased, while any source of information that backs you up is fair. That's not close-minded at all.
I read that quite a few magazines gave high ranks to cities like San Fransicko and Austin Texas. The last places on Earth i would ever want to visit. I know because I visited the former. Nothing but homeless people and drug addicts.
I read that too. San Francisco? That is not right at all!
came here with my husband to Maine to work as an RN at EMMC in Bangor.
Yes, you are working for the big government. Eastern Maine Medical gets big bucks from tax payer funded medicare, Mainecare and other subsidies. Of course that explains why you love communism so much.
EXACTLY! She is getting kickbacks from medicare and whatever kind of programs they have there so she has nothing to complain about.
The magazines promote republican bias. They ignore the real reasons why we have problems like the ones I mentioned. They should not be allowed to outsource to other states to avoid being taxed and pay fair wages and employ the poor. That is why we have problems. Regulating business to produce more and hire more and mandate what they are to do and can't do will ensure higher productivity and employment.
Yup, she's a commie left winger. If you mandate businesses and have government butt in then they will dry up faster. Once profit and revenue decline further they cannot produce or innovate better products. They just go under. It won't stop there. Soon government mandates what individuals can or cannot do. The leftists want the government to boss us around how we eat, sleep, where to send our kids, where to work ETc. It always leads to disaster. I know because the Maine probate recently helped an abusive father keep his son from leaving the state to get a better living by granting power of attorney. Now he has no job, no home and no money and lives in a homeless shelter full of lazy shiftless parasites who came to Maine only to sponge of the taxpayer.
Mainestatedemocrat comes across as being insane. MAINE RICH? LOL!! Maine is considered the Arkansas of the Northeast! At least Arkansas has jobs!!!!
Even the Boston Globe another leftist rag even admited that Maine is a piece of crap.
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