Referendum Questions

The Republican Project has put out their votes on these 7 questions. I agree with each except #3 RUS repeal & #5 the medical marijuana act. If you take drugs out of the equation of our country's slide into today's Leninism over the past 45 years there would be no slide period. It all started with the dope smoking Beatniks spreading guilt of American success to the youth of that era.
This is the 21st century for pete's sake, is the medical profession so moribund they can't extract the THC and other properties out to assist in ameliorating the pain and suffering? Morphine came from opium plants originally and Codeine from Cocaine. The medical mj is a joke as California is finding out and eventually they will expose and stop the madness.

The school mess will always be just that if any public union is allowed to exist. They run the budgets, end of story. If you don't think so try a real budget cut or even a faux cut of an increase (still an increase). The RUSsian school system now in place would work if Il Duce would drop the hammer on the unions and corrupt administrators that have scurried away to other job titles in the same system. Prosecutions would be helpful here. He had a good idea but did not deal aggressively with the union agitated "home rule" baloney. If he did we would have seen a good change. If the state provides the funding through the deranged school funding formula they can run the organizing of the SAD's, SU's, and now RUS's. There is no local control in Maine from the DEP running the Planning Boards to this or any of the past sick excuses for an education system, we need to recognize this loss in order to change it.

Tabor Question #4 is coming soon if not this year. The Bureaucratic Budgetary Dictatorship is coming to an end with the idiot baby boomers finally taking their pious Prius' into the sunset and out of power. Everyone knows the budgetary tricks of cutting the in your face line items to scare the public into no cuts at all. Think of it there has been no true cuts in the budgets for at least 25 years! Baldacci has only cut increases in spending not the underlying baseline or the actual useless program. Right now only a Democrat could propose even that! Pitiful to say but at least we have that.

As with anything "if the Union Thugocracy is against it I'm for it" attitude turns out to be a pretty good guide to life.