Give all Americans credit cards with no limits

Letters to the Editor

Published
August 13, 2011

Give all Americans credit cards with no limits

President Barack Obama and Congress cannot figure out how to get the terrible economy going. The solution really is simple, and all the geniuses in Washington haven’t thought of it. The solution: Give every American a never-ending credit limit on their credit cards, to purchase anything we need. It would create millions of jobs. To […]
Published
August 13, 2011

State bureau earned its award for excellence

I would like to congratulate Betty Lamoreau and her team at the Bureau of General Services for earning the national Excellence in Purchasing Award from the National Purchasing Institute. I had a couple of opportunities to work directly with Lamoreau last winter and always found her to be a professional and dedicated public servant. We […]
Published
August 13, 2011

After voter fraud, let’s tackle pillow tag removal

I am ecstatic that the state of Maine is spending our tax money to ferret out voter fraud. And, hopefully, when they have found the two people who have committed this heinous crime in the last 100 years, officials then will direct their attention and our money to go after those miscreants who remove and […]
Published
August 13, 2011

If tea party values followed, U.S. wouldn’t be in mess

So if the “debt deal” passed by Congress and signed into law by the president is such a great deal, will someone please explain how spending $2.1 trillion now, while cutting spending by $1 trillion now and maybe cutting more later will help decrease the debt? I understand if the new committee of 12 does […]
Published
August 13, 2011

Shame on Nutting for stooping to name-calling

Shame on House Speaker Robert Nutting for calling the good people of his district who disagree with him about same-day voter registration, “the extreme left-wing groups and individuals behind this signature gathering effort.” That is the kind of read-from-the-script political nonsense that has given us a do-nothing Congress in Washington; we don’t need more of […]

Published
August 13, 2011

Why does U.S. survival rely on private company?

So now America’s credit rating has been lowered from AAA to AA+. So what? Maybe now we will be forced to either stop borrowing so much from foreign countries and/or tighten our belts financially, as so many Americans are now doing. Thanks to the greed of our banks, who with the help of the Republican […]
Published
August 13, 2011

Broken economic system values only profits

In discussions of Maine’s lackluster job growth we hear a lot about the need to create jobs, but we hear almost nothing about decades of systematic job cuts that created the problem. It should be no surprise that jobs get harder to find. We have a broken economic system that values only shareholder profits. Intent […]
Published
August 12, 2011

Mudslinging, negativity not the American way

I am disheartened with the constant mudslinging between political parties in Maine throughout our nation. So much negativity and blame placing and ridicule is just embarrassing to see and/or hear. As Americans and human beings, we are supposed to be caring of one another and of our needs and to be patriotic Americans. What I’m […]
Published
August 12, 2011

Republicans don’t want to return to ‘good times’

Republicans are fighting back! Going back to the 1950s and ’60s, when the wealthy paid 91 percent income tax, they were still very prosperous and everyone had a job, middle-class workers could buy homes, had insurance, could take a week’s vacation, get a pension and Social Security after 25 to 40 years’ work, and could […]
Published
August 12, 2011

Democrats no different from the rest of politicians

While I understand the concept that our elected leaders in Washington need to compromise to pass legislation, and our democracy works only when two sides come together, I cannot comprehend why it is always the Democrats who fold. I was a proud supporter of Barack Obama; put up signs on my lawn, put the “Yes […]

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