Is anyone happy with the state of the economy today, with the prices of everything going up and the wages of average Americans going down? With a 90 percent voting record with George Bush, John McCain’s policies have done nothing to help out the people of Maine, but they have made things a lot easier for the fat cats in Washington.

During this election, we have a clear choice between a candidate who will offer meaningful change and a candidate who will offer more of the same. In 1935, the U.S. Public Works Administration and Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt started the Quoddy Tidal Power Project, a plan that would have used Maine’s natural resources to provide jobs and energy to our people, but which was never built.

Barack Obama has proposed investing $150 billion over the next 10 years in alternative sources of energy like wind power, tidal power, and advanced biofuels. This could bring the change we desperately need. Vote for McCain and you will get a continuation of the last eight years, but if you cast your ballot for Barack Obama, we will have a real shot at turning Maine around.

Alfred Brown

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