Maine governor says 47 percent of state’s residents choose not to work [View all]

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Source: Raw Story

Maine’s tea party-backed governor suggested during a conservative gathering last week that nearly half the state’s residents who could work do not.

Gov. Paul LePage said he had two points to make last week when he was told the gathering in Falmouth, Maine, was about to end.

His first point consisted only of the word “energy,” but then LePage began sketching out a point about “workplace development.”
“About 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state of Maine don’t work,” LePage said.

One woman in the audience loudly called out, “What?”

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