Not only has the Administration sued to block our military from voting, but now there is evidence that the President doesn’t have the decency to personally sign letters of condolences to the families of our fallen warriors. Is making the afternoon tee time that important?
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Wind in His Sails
Maine’s “King of Stealth” should also be called the “King of Subsidized Wealth”. Not only did Angus King take a governing budget with a surplus and turn it into burdensome budget deficit before he left office as Governor, he also accomplished something far more heinous and detrimental to the well being of Maine residents statewide in keeping with his own selfish desires. While hardworking Mainers toiled to free their State from the debt that King had incurred, the former Governor insured their labors would also make him very, very rich by introducing, promoting and signing into law legislation mandating wind power.
King’s law dictated to the State of Maine that 30% of its energy source must be wind. Then the former Governor quickly formed a wind energy company called Independence Wind. King then shamefully protected himself from any of the normal financial risk of a start-up company by securing a taxpayer backed loan guarantee. Instead of using his own money and risking personal loss, King obtained from President Obama a loan for 102 million dollars, yes, the same program that loaned money to Solyndra on the backs of taxpayers. So on the front end King passes a law that requires Maine residents to purchase wind energy and pay the higher operating costs into a company he created. On the other end, King requires the taxpayer to pay to build his company that is providing the service that taxpayers are being forced by law to purchase. And the tax dollars are herded into the deep pockets of Angus King.
Ah, the luxuries of the monarchy. If the venture of Maine’s own “King of Wind” fails, the King is still wealthy and the peasants poorer. If the venture continues, the King is much richer and the peasants…well, still poorer due to the increase in their utilities bill. The most galling of all is the revelation by an investigation from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, that King should never have been given the money for his wind kingdom. He had enough of his “own” money to foot the bill. But King, the Stealth Democrat, and his Party Incognito, the Democrats, find it so much the more fulfilling to gamble on someone else’s money rather than their own.
While this scheme to exploit the earnings of taxpayers may seem like a boon of mandated wealth for Angus King, it has produced a visceral reaction from Maine voters. Surprisingly, the left wing media support system of Maine’s own monarch is befuddled by the negative response of Mainers. Those of us who prefer to embrace common sense will try to explain this turn of events in small words for them. Maine people prefer that you earn your wealth on your own, not steal your wealth from others.
The misdeeds of Maine’s “King of Subsidized Wealth” have produced another unexpected result. The great, glaring, white towers of tax-funded waste, King’s windmills, are now blowing winds of momentum into the sails of his challenger’s ship. Charlie Summers has steadily, week by week, closed the gap between King and himself until he now stands poised to topple the presumptive winner of the U.S. Senate seat from his throne. Angus King has long enjoyed the protection of his media allies but now must face the scrutiny of a grassroots organization, which is determined to use the unfettered Internet to expose his corruption and complete embrace of crony capitalism. As the truth of his sinister behavior is exposed to this State and the Nation, honest men and women, who vote, will want to know more about the not so honest behavior of a man who longs to garner their vote to further expand his own personal kingdom.
Troubling Precedent
President Obama has again revealed his utter disdain for the private sector by offering his latest deal to Governor Romney. The President acts as if it is his right to have access to the private records of a man who has spent most of his life as a business in the private sector, emphasis on private. The Maine Conservative Voice hopes will not compromise his stand on releasing his private tax records. The Democrat Party has once again revealed its utter hatred for the privacy of Americans. If Governor Romney capitulates, he will embolden all those who wish crush the individualistic values that drive the independent spirit of America.
ClubMaine
Traveling southbound, headed towards Bangor from Dover-Foxcroft, if one looks close and is aware, there is a crude wooden sign, partially obscured by the undergrowth, which spells a surprising admonishment to those proponents of the East-West Highway. It questions why anyone who supports the building of a highway should live in the State of Maine. This columnist is admittedly paraphrasing the words on the sign, but the theme is accurate to be sure. What is startling is how little effort the author of this placard exerted to conceal his or her disdain for those who hold a difference of opinion. The hypocrisy flaunted between the waving blades of grass in the field is not unique to the liberal movement. It is at its core and essential to its function.
These sentences painted on slabs of wood are prompting travelers to agree that any who view the great resources of Maine as anything other than a pretty painting or fine piece of china merely to be observed in admiration from afar, untouched by human hand, are not fit to live in Maine. Those who view Maine’s working resources as a bounty of blessing to be handled and utilized to the benefit and prosperity of all those who reside within its shadow are surprisingly encouraged to leave the State. This is a curious request indeed from those who have long clamored that the wilds of Maine should be here for all to enjoy. It seems that is true only if you resign yourself to be shuttered, isolated and cut off from the rest of the Nation, who would pay handsomely for the riches and bounty of these resources. So there is a litmus test, in some minds, for those who can be allowed to enjoy Maine’s beauty.
In the coming months, studies concerning the highway in question will be researched and information will come forward. This will be presented to the people and the legislature. We all will have an opportunity to make, hopefully, a reasoned and thoughtful decision. But this writer takes great exception to those on either side of the issue who would state or otherwise imply that those that disagree with their opinion should leave the State.
But, sadly, hypocrisy seems to be the norm for my friends on the left. The head of the new stealth-Democrats, Angus King, has told Maine people that the huge budget shortfall he left Maine was merely a “theoretical” one. Those on the left decry the ownership of guns, unless they can use them to call for the murder of Olympian markswoman, Corey Cogdell and her family. The left has already screamed many times that the Republican budget would destroy MediCare and MediCaid, when it is, in fact, a plan to save it. The fact that the President has already, through ObamaCare, cut 700 billion dollars from MediCare is somehow kept quiet. The President has accused Governor Romney of indirectly causing the death of a woman through a company the Governor was no longer was part of, while Mr. Obama takes no responsibility for the death of border agent Brian Terry and the thousands of innocent Mexicans, who have been murdered as a direct result of the guns his administration gave to Mexican drug cartels.
Those of us who believe in traditional marriage are often labeled as hateful, but standing for our beliefs is not hate. It is our right. We work side by side throughout this Nation with those of alternate lifestyles without any threat of violence. Young Bristol Palin has been brutalized in the media for her Christian beliefs. When snidely asked by a reporter if she would dance with a man if he were gay, she calmly answered to the affirmative. But then she asked in return, would the gay man dance with her even though she is Christian and will not compromise her beliefs? That really is the question, isn’t it? Is the left really comfortable with an open debate on the facts? Or, does it prefer to establish an exclusive club only for those that parrot their teachings and all other voices that dissent are excluded, exiled or eliminated? What is your view of freedom? Is it the freedom that denies all other dissenting expression or is it the freedom that allows all expression on the platform of decent debate without repression for the majority to decide? Where is freedom in Maine?
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