LePage: Cut welfare and MaineCare or we’ll have to cut education

I am a nurse caring for a totally handicapped young man. He cannot be left alone at all. He has a tracheostomy, feeding tube, oxygen, and siezures. He is like the patients you see in the intensive care unit of the hospitals. The State wants to cut my job and the other nurses who care for him. This is like murder in my opinion. His parents cannot possibly care for him 24/7. This family is a hard working vital part of the professional community and will do all they can, but this is just absolutely crazy. I invite the Govenor to come visit this family. Maybe he could do a few shifts if I train him. I wish he would go after all the fraud in the State before cutting those is desperate need. Also do some cuts in the State pay rolls. Cut benefits. I get no sick pay, I get $5 for working a holiday. Have not had a raise in 8 years. Come on, lets get real.

Blackmail, and threats. How Republican of him.
These people really do live in a bubble.

divide and defeat. pit the schoolkids vs the poor and elderly. pathetic

I suppose raising taxes is considered a stupid idea? It's better to let the poor suffer than for the rich to pay a little more, is that it?

Fix costly judicial corruption!
http://bangordailynews.com/2011/11/10/news/downeast/informant-maine-drug-enforce...
Informant: Maine Drug Enforcement Agency told me to extort defense lawyer

LaPage is an imbarrassment to us Mainers. Unfortunatly we have no recall in this State. That will be corrected as soon as he's gone. If we survive till then.
I know many young working people who's children would DIE without Mainecare. And I'm NOT kidding!
LaPage and all you teabaggers...kiss my ass! You're all a bunch of heartless bastards!

Here is a novel idea, collect taxes on the rich and wealthy corporations and you will have the funds needed to run the government, you know, like they used to do when this country was something we could be proud of. La Page is a typical representation of todays conservative push, but it's not conservatism it is fraud.

How can anyone with as much as a half a brain not be insulted by these sorry bastards? The sad thing is "stupid" is in the majority these days. That is the only reason I can come up with to explain why the sheeple vote against their own best interest.

Hey everybody, have a nice day!

What an embarrassment LePage is… not only to the State of Maine.. not only to the United States… but to civilisation itself.

This latest foray into depravity comes on the heels of the buffoonish, far-right governor vowing to pursue a Wisconsin-like plan to undercut Maine's public sector unions -- and now the public education system. As we all know, an uneducated populace is easier to control -- but even they would be light-years smarter than this buffoon.

All preceded by LePage trying to roll back Maine's child-labour laws (can you imagine??).

Which was preceded by LePage paying for tax cuts for the rich by cutting services for Maine's working class and (what is left of) Maine's middle class.

Which was preceded by LePage picking a fight with the Maine NAACP in which he said, "Tell them to kiss my bȗtt."

How could anyone in their right mind ever even consider someone like this for any public job (including street cleaner)?

On second thought…. just look to the average bagger.

Then there was the removal of a workers mural from the Labour Department lobby.. Just more blithering bluster to avoid actually having to focus on the real problems facing Maine... simply because if they did that, their breathtaking incompetence might eclipse their breathtaking ignorance.

They need not worry on that account.

Any Mainerds around here know if there's a recall in the works?

Cut the military budget by half and not only is the USA's economy saved, the world's poor and hungry can be housed and fed for several years.

I hope the people of maine eventually throw this clown out of office. I would say something else but the trolls on this site will have me flagged. good post kb723.

The only thing that LePage is cutting is his own throat.

"Hmmm, never know how to spell or never know why you are dying, seems like a Hard Choice to make!!!"

evil, pure evil

This is the new wave of right wing lunacy. I hope Tuesday's election is only the first shot across the bow of these enemies of the working class.

This fool for sure is a mainiac. I thought stupid was for people that said things that didn't make sense. I guess I was wrong.

This POS and others like him either don't care or weren't paying attention Tuesday. The tea bagger run is over! Get with the program.

LePage: Cut welfare and MaineCare or we’ll have to cut education

“Eighty percent of the budget is Medicaid and welfare and education,” he said. “If the Legislature has the political will to fix the problem, education will keep the additional $63 million we gave it.”