I’m proud to say that Guilford, one of our towns here in Piscataquis County, was one of nine towns in Maine who were selected to as Maine’s most business friendly communities. Thank you Governor for not ignoring these hardworking towns in rural Northern Maine.
As the radical left continues to besiege Peter Vigue, the catch phrase used by the these environmentalists to justify their anarchist intent is they don’t want to lose “the quality of life” poverty-stricken Piscataquis and Washington County has to offer them. This is akin to the “it’s for the children” line used every time a liberal politician wants to raise your taxes to pay for another redundant bureaucracy. There is no quality of life in poverty save for the quality of your soul, but that is not the substance of this debate. If rural Counties in North-Central Maine cannot show large businesses that we have a transport artery for them to easily ship their products to market, we cannot hope to provide an attractive package to entice these businesses to come here. These enviro-leftists know this and that is their hope. At the core of their plan for our Maine is to drive the human footprint out of the “wildlands”. They use the ruse of “quality of life” to create hesitation in those who truly love the quality of life in areas we live on the edge of Maine’s wilderness. They hope to create uncertainty and conjure the elements of a conspiracy against the native men and women of Maine. The inevitable stalemate ensues. The entrepeneur with all his good intent suddenly finds himself neck-deep in a quagmire. After millions and even billions lost trying to help the impoverished, the businesses give up in despair to the cackling glee of environ’s meddling minions. Their accomplishment is two-fold. The hated business man has learned a painful lesson concerning rural Maine and leaves considerably weakened financially. The inhabitants of rural Maine are left even deeper in the despair of poverty, the environmental “quality of life”, and, with their children leaving in droves to seek fortune elsewhere, they follow in their wake to a different quality of life. And Maine is left barren of humanity, just the quality of life these anarchists seek.
Opponents continue to rail against proposed east-west highway in Piscataquis County
One of the major tenants of conservatism is the belief of private landowner rights. It was the adherence to this belief that caused this columnist to be doubtful of the East-West highway project. The Maine Conservative Voice had concerns about the probability of imminent domain and the violation of private landowner rights. That is why I attended the forum at the Foxcroft Academy. I made my way up to the top of the bleachers so that I could brace my tired back from a long day of construction work. No sooner had I sat down that many orange-garbed people began to surround where I had deposited my tired frame. It was readily apparent that they had already made up their minds about the project and expressed their disproval of the highway.
The presentation began and I listened. But my neighbors did not. At any moment when they did not approve of Peter Vigue’s statements, they would flash signs calling him a liar and at points heckling him. Soon Mr. Vigue addressed the issue of imminent domain and it verified some of my research that private companies cannot invoke imminent domain. On the other hand, the heckling orange clad protestors, that I found myself next to, revealed evidence of a different kind.
Every time Mr. Vigue would ask if the people from Piscataquis wanted a better prosperity, the orange throng about me would mutter, “No, we want a green life.” When asked if they wanted to see more businesses leave Piscataquis, they would answer, “Yes, to save the earth.” I began to see that all the protest against the violation of landowner rights was just one more ruse by the Environmental Left to keep any hope of prosperity coming to this great area from blossoming, thus, driving the hated human footprint from rural Maine, to turn this into the Wildlands they dream about. After all, these are the same groups who advocated for LURC, wildlife easements and the like. And they do have a plan for Piscataquis.
For some strange reason I received an email from a Mr. Gayton detailing his plan for Piscataquis County called the Piscataquis Village. He plans to build small European style villages with narrow streets and create no-car zones. This “micropolis” would set on 125 acres and would have “private building covenants”. Gayton also proposes a 325-acre “green band” around this village, which also would be a car-free zone. He needs to raise 2 million dollars to achieve the start of his plan for Piscataquis. He has many who have started to donate in the hundreds of thousands. There is more on this at these websites:
https://www.facebook.com/villageproject
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/cities/an-urban-experiment-in-rural-maine/1969
http://carfree.com/cft/i066.html
Some advocate these car free villages will agree to share one vehicle in case one is needed. So while the left calls for Piscataquis to embrace its vision of our future, which is something akin to beg, borrow and steal, we the people of Maine need to look closely at the true motives behind those who exploit our love for this land. They wish to blind us into severing our lifeline to future prosperity by cutting off the artery of business, transportation, as a sacrifice to their green agenda.
Recently while driving through Dover-Foxcroft, I noticed a bright hand made sign in storefront window. On the sign was boldly written “Say No To The East-West”. Right next to this sign was another sign in the window. It read “Going Out Of Business Sale”. Need I say more?
And please folks, get out there on the 12th and vote for Bruce Poliquin and Blaine Richardson, so we can send true social and fiscal conservatives to Washington, D.C. !!!
The power of Labor Unions is diminishing rapidly in this Nation, not because the labor force has an aversion to organization and solidarity, but because the Union system has come to exemplify greed, selfishness and corruption and much of the good and honest labor force of America has a strong aversion to those attributes. But this victory for Governor Walker has an even stronger message to the political system of the United States. My good friend, Jason Savage of Maine People Before Politics aptly explains this impact in his recent post.
This is what happens when politicians do exactly what they say they’re going to do. Keeping promises is the most valuable thing an elected official CAN do. AND everytime you hear someone say this was about money– yeah, it was about the TAXPAYER’S money — not the DONOR’S or UNION’S money. -Jason Savage
I couldn’t agree more! Perhaps this will begin a transfusion of marrow to those politicians who have the proverbial “backbone of an eclair”.
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