I was on cloud nine after reading Paul LePage’s guest editorial (“LePage: Environamental group says ‘no’ to good-paying jobs,” June 21).

I was thinking that our ultraslow economic growth was due to a variety of factors already covered in some depth in this newspaper. I would have added Gove. LePage’s administration to our list of woes until I found that the problem was simple. Get rid of NRCM!

Our rural citizens must be dancing in the streets knowing that rapid growth and living wage jobs are so easily obtained. While I haven’t heard any celebrations yet I’m sure it’s my hearing loss.

So we get rid of this vile enemy of the working man (and woman) and we’ll have a chicken in every pot. We should not confuse this chicken with the chicken promised by another Republican just before the bottom dropped out of our economy in 1929. Just a coincidence I’m sure.

I have just one nagging question. If it is so easy to get us on the road to good times again, why did the governor wait six years to share the good news? Why did we have to languish at the bottom of the New England heap for six years? We’re the same age so maybe his memory is no better than mine?

I will never forgive him if he has dashed my hope with one more bit of foolishness.

Dean Crocker

Estero, Florida and

Manchester

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