Credit to Paul LePage

I criticize Paul LePage a great deal and I am sure that will continue. He did something this week that I fully support and want to acknowledge that here.

Much has been made of the possibility of a fiscal cliff that will result from the sequestration budget issue, as well as the potential expiration of the Bush tax cuts. If this happens it is feared that the economy will collapse and both businesses and consumers will be hurt greatly.

As a precursor to this potentiality the administration has stated that the Federal Government will suspend the WARN act for companies of more that 100 employees that need to lay off workers.

Governor LePage, to his credit, has criticized the administration for this action and stated that the concern should be for the workers who would, without the WARN act, not be given sixty days notice of a pending loss of their job.

It really is a remarkable turnaround, a Democratic President suspending a pro labor act and a Republican Governor disagreeing.

LePage deserves to be commended strongly for this. It does not take a rocket scientist to see that some companies might use the cover of this budget crisis to bypass the act's provisions and jettison many employees in a flash.

I cannot understand the President's thinking on this.

Great job Governor LePage