Response to ‘Life imitating art’
To the editor:
In response to a letter by Mr. Loomis Craig on the matter of the Governor’s veto power, I think that why some people misunderstand our Governor is because he is not really a politician, but a businessman and is trying to run the state like a business. In a business, if you keep borrowing and spending more than your company can pay back, you will go under — quite quickly I might add.
In order for this state or country to get back on its feet, we need to stop borrowing. You cannot, in spite of what some top officials think, spend your way out of debt. I have heard it said that “if we don’t do the bond, we will lose matching federal funds”; where do you think federal funds come from? They come from “we the people”. Well right now, “we the people” have a national debt so high the interest, I have been told, is $600,000 a minute. Every five minutes is $3 million. Being just a little blue collar business owner, I can’t get my head around it when they start talking trillions, but an interest bill at $10,000 every second I can understand. Say it — one thousand one — you just accrued $10,000 more interest. Scary? I would think so; at least to those of us who work and pay taxes it is.
Personally, I find it refreshing to have a governor who is trying to rein in spending. Is it going to step on some toes? Yes, it will hurt; nobody wants to cut. I would love to have a new $50,000 truck for my work, but I cannot afford it, so I make do.
We are in trouble if we continue the way we are, we only have ourselves to blame. The press has not been kind to Gov. LePage, but I think most business owners respect what he is doing. If there are programs that are cut and we see a neighbor who is struggling because of it, those of us who can need to step up and help that person. “We the people” can come out of this, but not by more government but less.
When Gov. LePage called for a Day of Prayer, there was an uproar about it. When this country was fighting the War of Independence and it was going badly, our Founding Fathers called for a National Day of Prayer 16 times — not a bad act to follow.
And I really hate to break this to you, but outside of Daisy Duke looking pretty spiffy in those shorts, not much else in the “Dukes of Hazard” was true.
Gary Browning
Presque Isle
