Well, here we are at the beginning of June. Maine has one of the oldest populations per capita in the country. Many of Maine’s elderly are on a fixed income. Many elderly retirees in Maine heat their homes with heating oil.

This group does not want and cannot afford an electric vehicle. The thing they can control is the amount of gasoline they consume by traveling less.

However, on a fixed income will these folks, at $5-plus a gallon, have enough to buy oil for heat, to pay increased electric costs, increased grocery costs, increased prescription drug costs and increased medical costs? No, they will not.

Around November the Biden Administration will declare another emergency of which they were unaware. Gov. Janet Mills will continue campaigning for and providing more assistance to welfare and entitlement recipients; she is excellent at taking particularly diligent care of that sector of the Maine population, not so good on the elderly.

If a person is paid $2,400 a month to flip burgers or bag groceries, why doesn’t Social Security begin at $2,400 a month and increase from there?

From experience people know the Democrats will never accept responsibility for what has occurred in this country in less than two years. Even though they have the majority in the House and Senate, and a Democrat president, people can rest assured it will be the fault of Russia, Ukraine, the MAGA movement, the “basket of deplorables,” the Republican Party and oh yes, lest we forget, Donald J. Trump.

Paul Spencer, Lewiston