The Maine Wire: “Daily Catch: Defending the Sweetser Speaker, Medicaid Keynesianism, Big Labor’s Big Loss” plus 2 more‏

• Daily Catch: Defending the Sweetser Speaker, Medicaid Keynesianism, Big Labor’s Big Loss
• Schaeffer: Human Capital and Maine’s Future
• Maine’s budget blow-out would be worse if not for LePage pension reform

Daily Catch: Defending the Sweetser Speaker, Medicaid Keynesianism, Big Labor’s Big Loss Posted: 18 Feb 2014 09:20 AM PST Liberals rush to protect the Sweetser Speaker: After 26 House Republicans signed a letter asking House Speaker Mark W. Eves (D-North Berwick) to recuse himself from the Medicaid expansion debate due to a potential conflict of interest, the main stream media has finally caught notice. (It might also help that the Speaker’s crude attempts at […]

Schaeffer: Human Capital and Maine’s Future Posted: 18 Feb 2014 07:33 AM PST “There is no precedent in human history for economic growth on declining human capital – and that’s before anyone invented unsustainable welfare systems.” – Mark Steyn,  America Alone The Maine Heritage Policy Center has done considerable research and exposition on Maine’s ‘demographic winter’ in recent years.  To date however, we see precious little policy emphasis […]

Maine’s budget blow-out would be worse if not for LePage pension reform Posted: 18 Feb 2014 07:07 AM PST Once again, like a recurring nightmare, another gaping hole has been ripped in the state budget. And once again, it’s the same hungry beast ripping the biggest budgetary holes in the state’s checkbook: Medicaid, the profoundly broken and dysfunctional medical welfare program we call MaineCare. The estimated Medicaid fiscal gap is approximately $78 million, which […]