I offer congratulations to the people of Maine and America. Maine voters won on same-sex marriage and Barack Obama was re-elected.

Mitt Romney is correct: Obama won the election because of more handouts. Now, taxpayers of America will pay for more out-of-control welfare in America. Taxpayers will have to pay for Obama phones, food stamps, contraception and the morning-after pill.

What will happen on Jan. 1, 2013, if the poor economy goes over the fiscal cliff? If that isn’t solved, the taxpayers of America will be hit with the largest tax hike in history.

When Obama-sponsored legislation and ObamaCare kick in, this country will slide back into a recession or depression.

Obama is going after wealthy people. Going back in history, redistribution of wealth was tried by Stalin and Hitler. It only led to redistribution of poverty.

Now the Obama administration is going after personal freedoms, such as covered by the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

For 15 years, I have been independent and am fed up because people’s rights are being threatened. If not stopped, America will become a socialist-communist country.

Reggie Bechard, Lewiston