In the article, “KVCC turbine starts turning” on Oct. 20, Dana Doran said Efficiency Maine provided funding for the project two years ago.

Where did Efficiency Maine get the money? It got it from you and me. Every month, it is added to our CMP bill. Don’t you hate all those fees that are attached to our utility bills?

I think we as citizens need to change our thinking. When we read that some agency or the government funded the project or gave the grant, we should always remember that the money came out of our pockets. The government does not earn money. It takes it from you and me.

Maybe you don’t mind contributing to the turbine at our community college. But the way it is now, you have no choice.

If a representative from the college knocked on your door and explained the project, its benefits and the hope for lower energy costs in the future, would you give him money? If you wanted to, great. If you didn’t see the cost benefits, you might not. It would be your choice.

The money would come hard, but it would be spent wisely. The nonprofits I volunteer for do not get government money. They ask citizens directly, and they spend it wisely.

We need to stop the money pipeline that begins at the pockets of hard working Americans then pours into government coffers. Once there, it funds an enormous governmental organization, is misspent, wasted and lost through corruption.

Waste would decrease with a smaller government. Right now the government is so big the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing. The only way to stop the corruption is to stop the money flow.

You can’t pass enough laws to curb man’s greed.

Kathy Bureau

Winslow

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