Can't help but to wonder. When will state and local government realize. If your appetite is greater than the food on the table, you must curb your appetite? If you manage a business and your expence is greater than your income, Dah! You have to cut the dead wood. The dead wood is not the senior citizens nor the teaching of our next generation. Too many government building to maintain is one example. Consolidate, and trim the dead wood. What programs are pet peeve programs that only benifit a few, but costs many tax payer dollars? Where did the stimulus money go? Where does the lottery money go? Where did the tobacco money go? And why, when you talk to a government employee, they have the attitude that you work for them, not that they work for you? A little courtesy goes a long way.

I had a chat with a person is a Social Worker for the State of Maine.
She said last year(2008) there was 80,000 welfare babies born in Maine.

Thats 80,000 babies Maine taxpayers had to pay for to be born in 2008 and will be paying for over the next 18 years
Thats 80,000 welfare mothers that now will receive a FREE housing and meal ticket for the next 18 years
Thats 80,000 babies that have a high rate of becoming your Maine community's next generation of juvenile delinquents criminals when they turn teenager.

And whats this article about? Maine is going broke?