Why are public employees, teachers and low-income workers the only ones being forced to make sacrifices? Why does Gov. Paul LePage, and others like him, think they are above others? If some people have to pay more and face fewer services, shouldn’t the governor and the rich do so also?

Stephen King said it best when he asked why, as a rich person, doesn’t he have to pay more. I have respect for him. He understands and says he would be willing to pay 50 percent more. What is wrong with that?

Instead of cutting the budget and raising taxes and such, why can’t the governor work to bring back products that could be made in the U.S.? Products such as shoes and other things that used to made in U.S. mills and shops? Not just construction jobs.

On another issue, King has spoken up on behalf of gay marriage. I know LePage is against that, but who is he to judge how other people live? LePage doesn’t even live by the same rules he sets for others.

Phyllis Caron, Lewiston