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The Cauldron
The spring that never was, at least that’s the prediction as of late from the weather prophets. As we dream of warm spring air and fear it may never again appear through the snow drifts, the maple sugar industry is just wishing the sap would run. Its awful hard to boil sap without any sap.
A couple of hours to our south in Augusta there is no shortage of sap to be sure. The halls of the capital run thick with it and for years the layers of impurities have lain dormant with no adversity to expose it. As of late though, the hidden corruption of the Democrat Party has started to bubble to the top.
Not that it would take much heat to turn the layered misdeeds of the party whose symbol is an ass. The systemic corruption of the Democrat Party has so compiled that, quite frankly, its getting very hard for the leadership to keep a lid on it. Still to a great degree, Maine voters are complicit in this misuse and misappropriation of funds.
The Clean Elections Fund is a conundrum of contradiction. There is simply nothing clean about. And to it’s corruption, the Democrats are the flaming epitome. But it was the people of Maine who voted to give the Democrats the much more money to misuse and misappropriate in their version of a “clean election,” as if they hadn’t had enough to misuse in the past.
So now, it’s the expose´. Will Mainers be disgusted by the misuse of their taxpayer dollars? I doubt it. It’s what they voted for, right?
No, not really, but the frustrating thing is the flippant manner in which voters vote away their hard earn dollars into the pockets of corrupt politicians and then complain about the tax burden. Every bond issue that comes on a ballot sails through by a large majority. Minimum wage hikes completely detached from common sense are voted in leaving are businesses now teetering on collapse. No thought is ever given to repercussions of our votes.
The boil is on in Augusta and many Democrats are being exposed for abusing the clean elections system. Augusta is wallowing in too much money that we the voters, with the flick of pen or punch of a button in a voting booth, give to individuals with questionable moral fortitude. We as voters should take this time to reflect on whether there would be so much corruption in Augusta if we stopped giving them so much money to be corrupted with.
Merry Getsmas
It’s a Wonderful Life! And, yes, it is. The theme of that timeless classic represents one of the greatest most daunting challenges to parenting. How to teach our little ones that the giving is greater than the getting? How to live like the Apostle Paul who, whether abased or in abundance, learned the secret of contentment?
I was blessed to have grown up in a poor home. Yes, blessed. My father, a Vietnam Vet, left for the mission field in New Guinea, not long after returning from war. After returning stateside from the New Guinea, he immediately turned his passion and energy into church planting for the denomination to which he was affiliated. What that meant for our family was that we were in perpetual state of rebuilding our family budget. Once the church my father had planted reached a financial place to comfortably support our family, we moved on to start again. Over time, my resentment of this would turn to wisdom as I saw the need for sacrifice for the greater good. Lessons a teenage boy would prefer not to learn, but necessary nonetheless. I have learned that the best way to teach a wonderful life is to live a wonderful life.
But in the arena of politics it is all about the getting, isn’t it? The struggle for “who gets” is the ideal that predicates every manipulation, parry and thrust of this age-old dual. In the State of Maine, there is one Party that has a focus upon their interpretation of “who gets” and what they get. The other Party is in a constant study of vacillation and debate on which interpretation of “the gets’ and “who gets” they should adopt; the Party’s or the people’s.
The first is the Democrats. The have one constant focus and they do not divert from that. The government should get and the people should give. They firmly believe and espouse that all the wealth and treasure of Maine residents should be heaped into the halls of government where it can be protected and regulated away from the mishandling by the uneducated masses. And if there be any heaps left in the hands of the uneducated and unenlightened, those heaps should be immediately labeled as ill-gotten gains and the possessor of said heaps should be made to wear a sign with bright scarlet letters that spell “businessman”. Yes, after two short years out of power, the first order of business for Democrats was to try and vote themselves a raise. There is nothing left to guess on “who gets” with Democrats.
The reason for this immediate, feverish rush to the “till” for the Party, whose symbol is an Ass? It’s really quite obvious. For the two years, under the leadership of Paul LePage, the Republicans have been attempting to shovel those heaps of Maine’s wealth and treasure back out to the people of Maine. By lowering unemployment, creating jobs, making health care affordable and competitive, and passing the largest tax cut in Maine history Mainers are starting to see hope for an actual rebuilding of their own personal heaps. With 6,800 net new jobs in just 12 months, the average personal income above the national average by 30%, new home purchases up again by 23.6%, and the unemployment rate down creating 10,000 jobs since 2011, its hard to comprehend why Democrats regained a majority, unless you look at the issue of the “who gets”.
These Republican accomplishments did not come without a struggle. More could have been accomplished, were it not for very public defections from the hard left of the Republican Party. Editorials chastising the Governor in front of the State and the Nation did not give a picture of leaders focused on the people. The Tweed Chair debacle of the Maine Republican Convention convinced the people of Maine the Republican Party was riddled with factions consumed with getting their own agenda accomplished rather than fighting for the whole of Maine. Mainers had all they could stomach of what they were getting from Republicans and showed them the door directly adjacent to the woodshed.
In short, the Republican Party must decide which version of the “who gets” they believe in. If they want to present a remake of the Democrats vision, the populace will opt for the original rather than the cheap imitation. If the Republicans finally decide to offer Maine people a choice that is a contrast to Democrats, it had better travel in a clean, tightly run ship or the people will not get on board. The State of Maine and its people need to have their heaps of wealth returned to them, but they will not tolerate any more heaps of humiliation to go with it.
The Greatest Con
I have grown so tired and, yes, angry with liberal’s exploiting the love we have for our children in order to further the designs of their own agenda. Every opportunist will find the weakness of those they wish to con. They then wedge, manipulate and humiliate those they game with that weakness until they buckle under the pressure and go along with the plan. Such has been the operational directives for liberals in this State for years.
Our greatest weakness is our natural desire to protect our children and provide a better future for them. So with every new government regulation, every new bureaucracy and every tax hike comes the caveat that all this is needed for the children. Of course, when we see the behavior of those that pad their pockets with our tax dollars, it is easy to see why they contend that all is for the children. Sarcasm aside. Why is it that we, as Americans, repeatedly allow this dishonest sideshow to cavort through our citizenry under the guise of honest debate? Perhaps it is time we make a concerted effort to confront this façade and call it for what it is, a lie.
How is it that ballooning a government into the behemoth that it is can be ascribed to the necessity of benefiting children? How can it be moral to spend the wealth of children before they can even create it? Yet the liberals who saturate the ranks of the Democrat Party, and some of the Republican Party, feel they have been granted some overarching power to dictate the futures (or lack thereof) for our children. Shockingly, when one begins to research the beliefs of many foundational leaders of liberalism, socialism and progressivism, one can find that many believed government should be the parents of society and the populace merely the “breeders”.
These within the ranks of the left have been waging a war against property rights for years in this State. And, yes, they claim that all the restrictions on private property are for our children. So, are we to believe that our children have no desire to own their own property, land and a home? Should we simply capitulate to the whims of socialists that believe that we all should live in grey, drab, lifeless, government-owned apartment buildings like Europe? Does government really know how to manage our land better than us?
Government has a proven track record of destroying and corrupting everything it touches. I, for one, do not want the government to be touching my children. I find the bumper stickers that assume I must agree that a vote for government is vote for my children extremely offensive. On the contrary, I believe that a vote for government is a vote against my children. As father of three, I can assure you that I will do everything in my power to keep my children out of the sinister clutches of government. If they want to exploit my children for their own personal wealth, which is the pattern of government throughout the ages, they will have to do so over my cold dead carcass, which has been the pattern of Americans through out the ages.
The Maine Conservative Voice 