Skip to main content

A Credit Due to The Bangor Daily News


Tweet This http://goo.gl/Q0nnG6

In fairness to the Maine media which I have been recently been calling out for their suppression of free speech. I have to give credit to the Bangor Daily News which is currently allowing and interesting debate to continue on.
The article is Investments a better way to economic development than tax cuts By Victoria Mayer, Special to the BDN

Posted March 15, 2015, at 10:43 a.m.


 When I entered the discussion, I anticipated that my post would be blocked and therefore I made no effort to hold myself back when I posted this:


She is on the right track in returning economic development to the local level as we see in the two city states of Maine thriving on the large haul they receive in taxpayer revenue coming from Maine and United States taxpayers and all of it invested within their own municipal boundaries- but these are state courts with streets flowing with revenue coming directly out of taxpayer pockets and so they will not see a reduction in revenue that they haul in from taxpayers- in fact their share of taxpayer revenue will likely expand along with the expansion of the FAME corporation which budget will increase upwards of 46% under the Lepage plan and which function is to redistribute taxpayer revenue to the governments chosen private winners- with the state governed municipalities being on the top of the gift receiving list!
Since the state municipal courts have eliminated local governance and municipal services are not a state function, the elimination of municipal revenue sharing will not affect these two shining stars of the corporate state's cash cow politics The names of these two towns are MRRA and Lorring.
Education in Maine is almost totally controlled by the corporate state which deemed the U of M to be its own corporate instrumentality in 1981 and then awarded itself jurisdiction over education at U of M inc in 1995 and thereafter instituting Marxist and Socialist Studies as a minor at U of M inc, which also houses state owned manufacturing. Public educational money is already being used to train workers to fit the corporate grid designed by Maine's political class.
In 2013 funds were taken out of usual state functions to "invest" in yet another workers training program to the exclusive benefit of businesses conforming to the state's designs. Some of that money was taken from the Department of Corrections which is almost a match for the shortfall for the Department of Corrections which had to be emergency funded this year, with LePage chided the Department of Corrections for poor fiscal management after the state robbed its resources to finance the corporate state's investments in the corporate grid of Maine.
In short money going to education is really money going to a state controlled economy- not to a locally developed economy. Best to vote those bonds down if the aim is to return the development of our economy to local communities versus the centrally controlled development advanced by corporation of Maine and its network of many subsidiary corporations. Local communities can find ways to develop job training which can extend beyond the corporate grid into a more diverse field welcoming a more diverse population. It's not like if the state doesn't control worker training- then there will be none- That is an object which is totally possible to achieve in the private sector and at a local level.

Much to my surprise the post remains in view- with one comment typical of the criticism I receive from my detractors:
dwneast  Mackenziella  2 days agoThe phrase you chose at the beginning, after which I lost interest, is "right track' - not 'tract'.
This referred to a typo I made when I typed the word "track" which I have since corrected. Clearly there was something else that dwneast could not tolerate. I suspect he is a member of the As Maine Goes team of meanies who commonly attacked myself personally charging me with poor typing skills, which I confess is indeed the truth!

But the conversation continues as we speak and has become an interesting one. So in consideration of my recent ranting about free speech oppression by the Maine media- It is now called for to give the Bangor Daily News the credit it is due for allowing this conversation to continue online and to allow this voice to be a part.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

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
Post a Comment
Read more

An Incomplete Theory of Inflation Made to Order for Mass Consumption.

M oney is not what it used to be, so must our ways of thinking about it adapt. jaakko-kemppainen-unsplash The message treads across the media terrain, beating louder and louder as if to drown out the beat of the distant drummer. W arning! The only thing the stimulus will stimulate is inflation. The people will pay as the wealthy elite invests their windfalls in financial assets. Doom and gloom set to march across the land to the beat of the distribution of stimulus funds. In recent years as past predictions of fiscal disaster following stimulus spending failed to materialize and so the thinking about national debt and deficits has evolved, most noticeably with the development of  Modern Monetary Theory . In the   fall of 2020,  National Affairs  published a story,  Does the Debt Matter ? by Peter Wehner & Ian Tufts. Peter Wehner is vice president and senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and served in the last three Republican administrations. Ian Tufts is a recent g
Post a Comment
Read more

Its Not the Economy, Its the Culture!

Trump has brought into focus a long brewing social crisis SELECTED FOR THE BEST OF TREMR darren-deloach-unsplash I was a Republican, until the 2016 convention when a petition gathered enough signatures to let delegates vote their conscience, and was promptly dismissed by a voice vote.  That was when I first became aware that the Republican party was afraid, intimidated and dominated by the Trump base. I felt the party took the traditional base of the party, which included myself, for granted, as if we were party players, guaranteed to support the party, unquestionably, no matter where it went. Deeply ro o ted party obedience has been established. Many whom I once respected and are no longer recognizable. Those of us who did not follow the leaders no longer have a place in the Republican party and have largely become Independents. I voted straight blue in the last election, but consider myself Independent. There is no reason to believe that either one party or the other will continue to
Post a Comment
Read more