Posted on 09/02/2009 6:58:06 AM PDT by mainestategop
In recent surveys on economic and personal freedom, conservative states such as Texas, Kansas and so on have scored high marks while liberal states such as California, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York has scored low. New Hampshire scored big on both economic and personal liberty proving once again the power of private sector and low taxes against socialist oppression. California, that socialist paradise that liberals love ranked rock bottom on nearly all the surveys.
Where does Maine stand? Not surprisingly Maine scored very low on economic liberty. Maine as you all remember is the worst state to set up a small business, it is the second worst state for jobs after Michigan and is the 3rd poorest in the country. Only Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee rank lower than Maine. In economics, Maine is almost last beating out Michigan, Alaska and West Virginia while trailing Mississippi, Kentucky, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, California and Illinois among others.
As for personal liberties, Maine came out at 14th place in ranking for civil liberties. None the less, Maine barely managed it as civil and personal liberties in Maine are on a knifes edge thanks to liberal Democrats who want bigger government and taxation at the top and busy bodies, psychiatrists and parasites at the bottom who scamper around making lives miserable.
Maine has had close calls with losing liberty but at times too close. The biggest culprits have been psychiatrists, mental health workers and case managers in the welfare system.
At Bangor's Acadia hospital, juvenile corrections has used the facility as a dumping ground for Juvenile delinquents including those not convicted of drug use. In many cases where this happens Juveniles are slapped with a mental health record that can close doorways to employment at certain high paying jobs and are given psychemeds that increase addictiveness to street drugs.
Mental health workers at Acadia hospital have also been involved in abusing patients in their care and helping abusive families harm children and relatives. For example, Acadia was involved in isolating a Portland woman from her son while in custody. In another case, Acadia's doctors aided an abusive parent in stealing money and causing job loss and homelessness to his son.
Other mental health facilities have been involved in abusing patients and creating more problems where before there were none. A psychiatrist at a clinic in Waterville was responsible for helping abusive relatives get a court order against their son to prevent him from leaving the state to get a job.
Homosexual militant activists have been very active in the state sometimes beyond comprehension. Many of them have harassed and assaulted donors for republican causes whether or not they have anything to do with gay marriage. Liberal heterosexuals have also done the same thing. In 2006, supporters of the TABOR amendment that would have jump started Maine's economy and brought tens of thousands of jobs to the state were assaulted in Downtown Portland by liberal activists. One of them assaulted a black African immigrant while calling him the N word. Police did little and none of the attackers were charged.
This not just takes place in Portland but also in other communities even places where there is still conservative resistance. In Newport Maine for example, liberals assaulted a small pro troops rally and police officers shut the rally down. They did nothing about the liberals.
Also in the Universities, liberals are dominant and do everything they can to suppress any thought that is not leftist. College republicans have had difficulty booking conservative speakers. Although they were successful in bringing in speakers such as Bill O'reilly, liberals successfully prevented Ann Coulter from Speaking at UMaine. This shortly before the controversial movie about Michael Moore visiting Utah Valley college came out. Liberals are hypocrites.
Politicians are just as bad if not worse. Many judges and bureaucrats are liberal minded and tend to vote to the left and on other occasions, politicians have also used the power of government to harass and persecute the needy in the state on several occasions. Maine is also one of the bigger offenders when it comes to eminent domain. Several small businesses have been plundered and destroyed by the government to make way for big business that offers cheap jobs and socialist works. Many small business owners have become homeless bums on welfare thanks to eminent Domain. Only Connecticut and New Jersey do it worse.
Elaine Thibodeau, and official from Maine's Orwellian and Marxist department of Professional and Financial Regulation attempted to shut down Christian activists in Maine by fining their organizations. She attacked them for speaking out against gay marriage proposals and for opposing Muslim indoctrination in public schools.
While the police and the government are harassing Innocent people, criminals are getting away with almost everything. In Portland Maine, homelessness has increased dramatically. Many of them are also drug addicts and alcoholics. While city ordinances prohibit drinking in public, police officers do little to enforce it. Some because they are tired of handing out tickets and subpoenas to drunks. Instead the police dump the beer can out on the sidewalk before giving it back to them.
Maine also gives sanctuary to illegal aliens from Europe, Mexico, Canada and elsewhere. 4 years ago, southern Maine experienced an outbreak of whooping cough. It was traced to illegal alien children who had the disease. Portland Maine has also passed laws giving sanctuary to these law breaking deviants who usually in return decide to steal benefits and jobs and cause crime.
Economic liberty itself should fall under personal liberty. The right to go into business and own property are essential for freedom and liberty. Since Maine is one of the worst offenders that alone should knock out Maine from the top 20. At best Maine belongs somewhere in the bottom 25, preferably bottom 10.
Maine is looking more and more like the USSR than the us of a with a terrible and dysfunctional economy and disappearing civil liberties. Its thanks to liberals and their friends in government that this is happening. In due time Maine WILL hit rock bottom with personal liberty along with economic liberty.
This is not a racial thing, either, there are not many black people in Maine other than the Somali immigrants. It's the result of years of liberal policy experiments, choking state regulation of business, and debates dominated by a liberal professoriat at all those expensive private colleges.
(My husband graduated from Waterville High and Colby, so I know what I'm talking about. His father could not get a business going there after his company closed in the late 1970s, so he moved to Masachusetts.)
What about Freeport’s “Abandoned Building Festival”?
There are quite a few african americans living in Portland and they are slaves to the socialist plantation. The few that succeed in getting a job there have their money taken and given to welfare bums.
You are correct. It is not racist to point these things out. Matter of fact, there's a housing project in Dover and another one in Portsmouth. Almost all white, none of them want to work. The blacks get taxed to death in Maine. I knew one brother who worked at one of these places, he offered a white 21 year old with 4 children a job, she's all like, "I GET 2100$ I don't need to WORK!"
Its because of my experience in Maine that I despise liberalism.
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