Help Your Neighbors
Posted by Elizabeth Kellett
In this time of economic uncertainty there are two things you can do to help your neighbors, friends and families.
#1 is to buy Maine lobster! Prices are lower than they've been in over 30 years and you can get deals from the local fishing coop or even your nearby supermarket. Take a day and drive from Portland to New Harbor for special deals. This weekend you can buy 20 lbs or more for $3.19 lb and smaller amounts for $3.49. Just go North on coastal Rt. 1 to Damariscotta, and take Rt. 130 to New Harbor then left on Rt. 32. The coop is about a mile on the right next to Shaw's Wharf. It's a beautiful hour and a half drive and worth the effort. The trees are gorgeous now too
#2 is please vote in the upcoming election. Now is the time for Mainers to stick together and help each other. Question 1 will hurt your neighbors if it passes. Please listen to this debate and don't believe the claims of the huge alcohol, soda and insurance companies.
Thousands of people just raised tons of money for breast cancer, but some of these same people refuse to help other Mainers by paying a tiny bit more on beverages that they shouldn't be drinking anyway. Would you pay a few cents more for a soda or beer if it helped your neighbor overcome a deadly disease? It would be money well spent.
Are a few pennies on an unnecessary beverage worth more to you than helping working people receive life giving health care? This isn't about raising taxes. It's about funding a program that helps thousands of people get the medical help they need.
What will happen to these people when they loose affordable health care? Can you really vote to deny basic care to the young, working family and their children? Or can your aunt or your next door neighbor live quality lives without their health insurance?
This bill was written and passed by the legislators in a bipartisan attempt to help poor working Mainers receive health care. Please don't vote for the beer and soda companies. Support your neighbors, friends and families and vote NO on Question 1.
Posted by Elizabeth Kellett
at 01:47 PM
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A coop is a cage. A co-op is a business cooperative.
Posted by
October 27, 2008 08:39 AM
I apolergize for mispeling and att timz I don typ goode ither.
Posted by Liz
October 27, 2008 02:46 PM
"This bill was written and passed by the legislators" in the dark of night without public hearings. It is a blatent attempt to extract more taxes from the people of Maine to support yet another failed program.
Posted by
October 28, 2008 05:41 AM
It is not a failed program - ask the people whose lives have been saved by having affordable health care. Which ones would you have that taken away from? Or don't you know any poor working people?
Posted by Liz
October 28, 2008 02:24 PM
Maine has funded Dirigo since its inception without any new taxes (when the program was started, Gov. Baldacci insisted that no new taxes would ever be created to fund it). Should this new tax be repealed, the State will continue to fund it by the same means that it has in the past - no one will have their coverage taken away - unless those who divide the pie in Augusta are not willing to continue to fund a program that they insist is so vital.
Or do you believe, Liz, that there is no money at all available for the program without this new tax money?
Posted by Peter Cutler
October 30, 2008 04:37 PM
This was how the legislature chose to fund this program, for it's continuation and expansion. I ask you where this money will come from with the approval of Question 1? Currently there is a freeze and waiting list new enrollees and their families. People that would be allowed insurance with this funding will now be denied it.
Posted by Liz
November 2, 2008 04:00 PM
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