First up, our satire of LePage's promises about improving the Maine economy by creating more jobs.
Once upon a time, there was a place called Maine — a beautiful land of lakes, mountains, and coastline. It was never an easy place to live, but people worked hard, and even in the worst of times, the wood and produce from the public orchard helped everyone to get by.
In the midst of one of the bad times, a certain candidate for pooh bah came before the people. “Jobs,” shouted the people.
“Jobs!” he shouted back — and so they elected him.
On the day after the election, the people stood before him and said, “Excuse us sir, but we would like to have jobs.”
“You will have jobs, but first we need to help the job creators,” said the pooh bah.
“How can we do that?” asked the people.
“They need half of the trees in the public orchard,” the pooh bah replied.
Gasps filled the arena. The people loved the orchard — and depended on it. But they also needed jobs, so they agreed to the pooh bah’s request. Men came in and cut the trees and sent them up the distant hill to the job creators who lived there . . . [click to continue]
See http://www.appalledbylepage.com/2014/10/27/lepage-and-jobs-a-maine-parable/ to read the full piece.
