Gary52
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- Gary
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- Savard
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- Lewiston
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Married professional 59 years old. Life long Lewiston resident. Sun-journal subscriber.
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Gary52's Comments
The city is slowly losing
The city is slowly losing population, yet we are gaining on average 100 students per year. When does the City of Lewiston reach the tipping point? You can only tax property owners so much before you start to add them to the welfare rolls, especially retirees and others on fixed incomes. When it comes to the school department, we never seem to have enough money, no matter where it comes from.
Yes Dan, by all means, let
Yes Dan, by all means, let the people who get up and go to work every day pay for anyone and everyone that can't or won't support themselves, whether they need/deserve it or not. Tax the crap out of them...until, of course, it reaches into your own pockets, then you'll howl about that, I'm sure. Our current system of welfare is not sustainable, plain and simple. We need too fix it. We can't tax our way out of it. NOTE: Even Baldacci, your main man, couldn't pay the bills on these programs.
Many complaints, but no
Many complaints, but no suggested solutions other than the same old "RAISE TAXES". The DHHS problems have to be fixed because we are spending way more than we can afford. Jobs will disappear in the process, but many are jobs that probably shouldn't have been created in the first place.
There seems to be a problem
There seems to be a problem in Augusta with folks not understanding that our welfare system as it stands is not sustainable. It hasn't been for a while, either. John Baldacci used one time money and delayed payments to providers to balance his budgets and he left with hospitals owed millions of dollars. The DHHS problems have to be resolved, and I give Lepage credit for facing that problem and taking the heat that goes with it. We can't ignore the problem and we can't tax our way out of it, either.
My guess is that they will
My guess is that they will bring in experienced people to train and supervise initially, and then promote from their employee base and hire local people to replace turnovers going forward, which makes sense both practically and financially. Dennis Bailey is such a drain...but, he makes money while he's at it!