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If individual states like Maine start providing their own universal health-care, there won't be a need for such a program at the national level. Then everybody can pay their own way, based on how much the allow their state government to spend.

When does Maine stop accepting federal money through Medicaid and Medicare and replace it with Maine money?

When does Maine stop accepting federal money through Medicaid and Medicare and replace it with Maine money?

I don't think Maine HAS any money! We are supposed to be the poorest state in the Union............what money??? We just lost 3,000 more workers!

Re: "When does Maine stop accepting federal money through Medicaid and Medicare and replace it with Maine money?":

It is really going to take some creative imagination, 'cause we're just about all out of Maine Money; they've about taxed us dry, run most of the industry and many of the Workers out of the state (or sold their jobs to China and put them on welfare) and filled our cities with immigrants and "Urban Outdoorsmen" who contribute, in most cases, very little if anything to the economy other than reliably voting Democrat, and expect, if not demand, to be taken care of.

Such jobs as we have are either for Lawyers who make a living sucking what little life is left out of our economy or in menial "service" Mac-Jobs that will hardly pay the rent, much less the taxes for a working Maine family.

Shucks; not satisfied with selling our industry to China, now Maine apple orchards are falling to the chainsaws to make room for more housing developments (which I suspect few actual Mainers can afford to live in)... Chinese apple juice (a major product of the apple industry) can be produced without American labor and environmental restrictions with essentially slave labor, and sold for less than it costs Maine growers to produce it domesticly. Much of Aroostic County, once one of America's major potato suppliers, seems to be planting and harvesting less potatoes every year, and most of the processing plants up there seem to be abandoned. I wonder if most of our spuds are coming from China, too?

The major industries in Maine, if you can call them that, seem to currently consist of telemarketing, public school administration, social welfare administration, and government beauraucracy. Darned little, it seems, is actually manufactured, produced, or grown here any more.

Oh; wait; I think we still grow a few blueberries up North and pull some lobsters from time to time - but those are seasonal things and I don't see anyone really "prospering" at it around here.

As more of Maine's communities become "gentrified", property taxes explode and drive many long-time Residents out of their own homes and off of their land to seek refuge in less desireable climes - inland to the mosquito swamps and sandpits or out of the state altogether.

Despite our dubious status as the collectively most heavilly taxed Citizens of any State in the Union, it is never enough for our State and Munincipal Governments, or the public shcool system that sucks in the vast majority of munincipal budgets via largely unfunded mandates from the State and Federal Governments. They always want - and demand - more.

We can assume, can't we, that whoever or whatever wanders accross our borders or washes up on our shoreline will be instantly entitled to lifelong "Dirigo-Care", as well as any spawn they happen to drop while here? I can almost smell a mass influx of Democrat Voters already enroute!
Let the migration begin!

What's the opposite of an "Exodus"? An "Introdus"?
Whatever; we're in for one. Or perhaps just a population exchange, as economic refugees (including about 22% of Maine's high-school graduates)escape in search of a life no longer available in Maine, while the liberal elite and throngs of the chronically dependant swarm in for refuge from the real world in the other 48 States between here and kalifornia.

Will sex-change operations and plastic surgery be included? Probably. Maine drifters should feel good about themselves - and no doubt have a right to, by golly!

And how long do we suppose it will be before legions of "Alternative Lifestyle" celebrants swarm into Maine riddled with AIDS and other various STDs not only to gain "Domestic Partner" status but to let Maine Taxpayers (such as can still be found) make them all better?

Stand by, Town Clerks, to register lots more Voters this year... (guess which party?).

Pretty soon they'll have a nice big casino (or several)here in Maine to blow their welfare and SSI checks in, too. Won't that be special?

Gee; I guess all the professional parasites of Middle America are going to have to flip a coin on which bus to catch to Socialist Utopia; the one going to Kalifornia, or the other one headed East to the People's Republik of Maine.

And to think; this used to be a pretty darned nice State to live in, too.

Pity.

UJ from ME