And/or…Maine has a long history of corruption, patronage, and cronyism. If these towns are anything like Bangor, then there are very possibly several hands in the till, reaping S & R funds for doing next to nothing. (Like that Bangor mayor who made $4500 an hour for recording city hall’s phone message.

Saving money for Maine would just take it out of the crony’s pockets.

Honest businesses from away can’t do business in Maine. …so they leave, and there’s never any new blood, and the place gets more inbred, and the negative characteristics are reinforced even more.

Have you tried Rhode Island? They’re having political shake-ups there.

Maybe this is wishful thinking, but there are some new, young politicians out there who are at least trying to fix things. The WWW is helping, since it’s getting harder for the crooks to hide.

Good luck…!

We offered a way of saving money for search and recovery missions but Maine either doesn’t see it, trust it, or it just isn’t the way it was done before…ultimately, we offer Maine jobs if we can get past the start up blues. Our “friend” certainly hasn’t aided the situation either. Other than that, Mainers are tremendous giving people on the whole and the people we’ve met in our town and congregation are beyond reproach.

Like my grandmother used to say, “What kind of people were in the town you left? That’s the kind of people you’ll find here…” The beauty and tragedy of Maine is it’s essentially a whole state of small town care and concern, gossip and treachery…

Sincerely, I do love Maine.

Q

I do know that in certain rural places everyone – but especially flatlanders – have to be very careful.

As I’ve said many times, in Maine, the crime is not on the street – it’s in the yellow pages. While most of the folks you meet in rural Maine are just awesome, the dishonesty in big and small businesses blows me away, as it does to to many other outsiders.

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