# Governor Paul LePage (Maine's Governor), please fuck yourself in the ass with a corkscrew... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 5, 2016, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-paul-lepage-maines-governor-please-fuck-yourself-in-the-ass-with-a-corkscrew/770691 "2016-11-05T13:37:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 57
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-paul-lepage-maines-governor-please-fuck-yourself-in-the-ass-with-a-corkscrew/770691/57 "2016-11-09T01:31:45Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I suppose that may or may not be so. In the post immediately preceding yours, **RNATB** mentions that the level was changed from $23K and a bit. Do you disagree that the DOL was acting within the ambit of its authority to raise it from that level at ALL? No, I agree that some raise would be unobjectionable. But I sense that you might be contemplating hitting me with the _sorites_ paradox: as expounded by Eubulides of Miletus, a heap of sand has a grain removed. Is it still a heap? Of course it is! So remove another. And another. Still a heap? The resolution of the paradox, applied here, makes it clear that DoL could have raised the level by a dollar with virtually no concern. by ten dollars with no real concern and the more that they raise it, the less defensibly they can rely upon the claim that the new level correctly identifies executive, administrative, and professional employees. Indeed, even their deliberative process shows a complete lack of careful analysis to reach this level: they simply doubled the old number. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-paul-lepage-maines-governor-please-fuck-yourself-in-the-ass-with-a-corkscrew/770691)._