Skip to main content

Reality VS Truth as Deemed by Legistation

Before I move on with my story, I want to make one point perfectly clear about the insights I have been relaying about TexTech, which came to my attention because Alan Hinsey of MaineBiz Sunday heralded TexTech as the "poster child" of Maine's "creative economy" movement.

When the Maine state legislature rose above the will of the people as expressed in the Maine state constitution to charter, by special ct of legislation, that corporation known as the Finance Authority of Maine, the legislature there in deemed the following to be true:


The authority will serve a public purpose and perform an essential governmental function in the exercise of the powers and duties conferred upon it by this chapter. Any benefits accruing to private individuals or associations, as a result of the activities of the authority, are deemed by the Legislature to be incidental to the public purposes to be achieved by the implementation of this chapter. [1985, c. 344, §5 (AMD).] Special Act of legislation chartering FAME

In fact and in regards to TexTech, having received at least seven wealth transfusions from MTI, the exact opposite is true, The public purpose is defined in the special act of legislation that chartered the non-profit corporation known as the Maine Technology Institute:


2. Purpose.  The institute, through a public and private partnership, shall encourage, promote, stimulate and support research and development activity leading to the commercialization of new products and services in the State's technology-intensive industrial sectors to enhance the competitive position of those sectors and increase the likelihood that one or more of the sectors will support clusters of industrial activity and to create new jobs for Maine people. The institute is one element of the State's economic development strategy and will contribute to the long-term development of a statewide research, development and product deployment infrastructure.
[ 1999, c. 401, Pt. AAA, §3 (NEW) .]


The definition of Industrialization at dictionary .com is :

1. ( tr ) to develop industry on an extensive scale in (a country, region, etc) 2. ( intr ) (of a country, region, etc) to undergo the development of industry on an extensive scale

The extensive scale is not in the prototype design activity but in the extensive scale  production activity. The production activity for Textech as stated on their website is located in China and Thailand where the cost of labor is dramatically less that in Maine, wherein  the legislature promises higher than average wages and all the beast benefits.


When we get to the definition of "incidental' as in "Any benefits accruing to private individuals or associations, as a result of the activities of the authority, are deemed by the Legislature to be incidental to the public purposes to be achieved by the implementation of this chapter.", the interpretation of the legislature's decree is nothing short of incredulous:

The definition of Incidental at Merriam Webster.com

a : being likely to ensue as a chance or minor consequence <social obligations incidental to the job>
b : minor 1
2: occurring merely by chance or without intention or calculation

So we are to believe that the high growth investors with whom our legislature is so cozily in bed in the special act of legislation that chartered the tax payer-subsidized high growth investor's corporation known as The Small Enterprise Growth Fund are unintentionally making a high growth profit for which they demand an "exit strategy" in order to realize!

The other definition of incidental that applies here is found on Thesaurus.com
 
Definition: related; minor

Prototype design is clearly related to production but it is minor in scale to production.

Prototype design provides jobs on a limited and minor scale to the amount of jobs provided in production.

The wealth transfusions going to TexTech from The Maine technology Institute benefit the owners of the means of production, or the high growth investor in the same, on a far greater scale than it benefits the Maine people in providing jobs for Mainers. It provides jobs for people in China and Thailand on a much greater scale than it provides jobs to Mainers.


The jobs provided to Maine are incidental to the wealth created for the high growth investor and the owner of the means of production located in China and Thailand. Those jobs are related but minor in scale to the rest. The practicing reality is the opposite of the truth as so deemed in the unconstitutional charter for the Finance Authority of Maine.

But since The Finance Authority of Maine and the Maine Technology Institute and the Small Enterprise Growth Fund were all chartered by special acts of legislation in violation of Article IV, Part Third, Section 14 of the Maine State Constitution- can the legislature be said to be in violation of statutes that are themselves unconstitutional?

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Why are social impact investors trying so hard to defeat smaller shelters for the homeless?

  "Social Impact” developers in Portland, Maine seek to squelch a referendum for smaller shelters called for by qualified practitioners with concrete experience in the field. A large sign says Vote C to support the Homeless, small handmade sign next to it says Untrue! That sign is paid for by developers who want / Photo by Jess Falero In   the 1970s under Governor Longley , Maine became a centrally managed economy that expanded Maine’s wealth gap and merged, almost seamlessly, the public and private and the non-profit and for-profit economic sectors into one mutually beneficial wealth-concentration & distribution system. Currently, mutually benefitting factions are coming together once again in hopes of building a mega-shelter for the homeless in a Portland, Maine industrial development district. In addition to beds for the homeless, the project will include, dining, and locker facilities, as well as offices and an attached health clinic. The promotion  describes the facility

Communism and State Ownership of Intellectual Property

Tweet This: http://goo.gl/BcA6ru Government As a Secret Society The response to my informal suggestion that public accessibility to government could be improved by making information available in a searchable data base ( see previous post) subjectively confirmed that the  functioning power elite of Maine's economic development programs and policies are both intentional in instituting a political ideology that supersedes the will of the people, as expressed in the Maine State Constitution, and deceptive towards the general public. 1.Information made available on an agency website but not in a searchable database format may not provide the research and investigative tool needed by the public. The Freedom of Access Act does not require that public information be posted online in any particular format, just that public records be made available. While there is a strong argument for increasing the accessibility and usefulness of information, there is no current requ

Hand Making Ceramics in the USA, The Medium is still the Message

I was raised in a ceramic business in the home, which was different from its surroundings, making myself and my siblings, outsiders inside the classroom environment. When school closed and summer commenced, an alternate reality emerged, a world in which my family's art was sought after by a wide range of humanity. I felt welcomed by the foreigners and an outsider among local peers. Later when I left home for  NYC, circa 1966, I found myself surrounded by welcoming peers, a difference between night and day. It was New York City at the pinnacle of the flower power era when Greenwich Village was wall-to wall youth culture As you can imagine this formulated a peculiar psychology, so strange, that even I didn't recognize it! From Levittown To Maine in 1952 Page from Jim Harnedy's book on the Boothbay Region. The 200 year old barn which was the first home of Andersen Design was torn down after we moved to East Boothbay A while ago a high school acquaintance told me