Maine Gov. Paul Lepage proposes new series of labor murals

[Earth_First]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Child_Labor,_1918.JPG

[HughBeaumont]

1. "Open fer Bidness!! YeeeeHAW!!"

"Maine: Asshats Happen When You Don't Vote."

[madmax]

2. 'Good 'ol days'. nt

just in case :sarcasm:

[spartan61]

3. My neighbor in the Belgrade Lakes is a total

right winger. He plays Rush on the radio everyday so loudly that we can hear it across the street. Last summer he had all kinds of LePage posters on his house, garage, yard, etc. I'm sure he is too stupid to realize what an idiot he helped to elect.

[Marblehead]

7. These folks are brainwashed

they are told the media is liberal so they won't believe anyone else.

[janet118]

8. One of my neighbors in central Maine is a LePage fan . . .

She is a Christianoid who works as a secretary for an auto body shop and is not wealthy. She constantly sprinkles religious platitudes into what passes for conversation. She is originally from Pennsylvania, or "Pennsy" as she and her now-deceased truck driver husband used to call it. The husband used to beat her and her two kids until she left finally them (or was thrown out) to live with another man she was having an affair with. She moved back to the house after her husband died about ten years ago and lives there with her two sons, an EMT and a mechanic. Her youngest just got out of prison for violating a restraining order against his wife. Last summer, when I was talking to her about something or other, she actually used the word "nigger" and then quickly apologized when she realized she wasn't "among friends." Since she never seemed very politically involved, her excitement about LePage set off all kinds of alarm bells. I have a feeling that she supported him because the members of her fundy church did. You cannot talk to her rationally - she is emotionally connected to whatever LePage represents to her. A tough talking, anti-liberal, self-serving racist who will destroy the delicate social network that holds this poor state together, LePage is just fine with her.

Too bad the election had two moderates taking votes away from each other so this moron could walk into the governor's office with only 38% of the vote.

[blindpig]

4. Well done.

k&r

[PA Democrat]

5. LePage supports rolling back child labor laws.

What could possibly go wrong if kids are working 32 hours a week during the school year? :sarcasm:

If child labor laws are rolled back, you know teachers will be blamed when test scores go down.

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/17/paul-lepage-child-labor/

[Earth_First]

9. +1 link n/t

[MindPilot]

6. I figured it would be candid action shots of CEO's

Show them hard at work counting money in the boardroom, enduring those long hours on the corporate jet, agonizing over which Armani suit to wear. Oh the sacrifice and selflessness they have demonstrated while realizing the American dream. Yes, only through art can the contributions that CEOs have made be experienced--if only tangentially--by the common folk.