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. The direction of welfare reform must be to help people move into jobs with futures. Making people take dead-end jobs will only lead back into the welfare system, and it will not help their children break the cycle of poverty. Sustainability Greg Gerritt Greg has lived in a solar house that he built himself on Gridiron Hill in Industry since 1980.