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Governor John Baldacci's Weekly Radio Address: Budget Discipline - Saturday, June 07, 2008

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This is Governor John Baldacci. A crisis can often bring out the very best in people. When there’s an emergency, people react. Firefighters rush into burning buildings. Police face fugitives waiving guns and soldiers put themselves at risk to save others. But not every crisis demands – or even allows – for such actions. Maine right now is caught in the vice of a national energy price crisis. Gasoline has topped over $4 dollars a gallon in some parts of the State and is lingering just under that mark everywhere else. The prices of a single-family home in the State have dropped more than 11 percent since last year, and the number of homes sold is down more than 23 percent. And food prices related to energy costs keep climbing. I don’t need to talk about the pressure being faced by Maine families. We see it every single day when they go to the grocery store or get gas for the family car. It’s a real energy price crisis. And it’s my concern that the U.S. economy will be slower to recover. What we can do is put Maine on a better financial course and work to improve our financial footing so that we are better able to weather those national storms. Maine has taken bold action, but it’s never going to compare to the bravery and heroics of firefighters, police officers and soldiers. We have fundamentally altered the fabric of state government though. We have reinvigorated K-12 education, we...
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