Eliminate Clearcutting, use more people and smaller machines. Reduce fossil fuel consumption in the woods. End the use of pesticides and herbicides in the woods. While standard rhetoric would deny it, a program to boost maine's agricultural production especially if organic methods were encouraged, would provide more jobs, and more sustainable jobs, than any High Tech program that would be developed in the next decade. A Single Payer Universal Health Care system is the most efficient, most inexpensive, and fairest way to deliver medical services to Maine's people.
Home based health care is a very efficient and effective way to provide services to many people.
It is an excellent alternative to institutionalization for many older citizens. Home based care should be an integral part of all future health care plans. Most crime is committed by career criminals. Early intervention with at-risk children will reduce crime. Well thought out training and counseling for incarcerated people will help break the cycle of crime, and more than pay for itself.