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Maine begins issuing photo ID welfare cards
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| April 28, 2014
Posted on 04/28/2014 9:37:30 AM PDT by george76
Maine is starting to issue welfare benefit cards with photos on them despite a request from the federal government to wait.
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the U.S. Department of Agriculture asked Maine to delay its plan, saying that it risks a loss of federal funding or litigation if it violates regulations in the program.
But DHHS said it will move forward with its plan designed to combat fraud and abuse in the program.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: electionfraud; foodstamps; maine; photoid; votefraud; voterfraud; voterid; welfare
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posted on
04/28/2014 9:37:31 AM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
fraud and abuse in welfare. Who knew?
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posted on
04/28/2014 9:39:11 AM PDT
by
from occupied ga
(Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
To: george76
To: VRWCmember
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posted on
04/28/2014 9:46:51 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: george76
Maine is starting to issue welfare benefit cards with photos on them despite a request from the federal government to wait.The Federal Government has become the ENEMY OF AMERICA.
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posted on
04/28/2014 9:48:30 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: george76
Wish it would be done in Mississipi!
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posted on
04/28/2014 9:48:45 AM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
To: george76
“the U.S. Department of Agriculture asked Maine to delay its plan,”
An educated electorate would ask why? Our current electorate will scream racism.
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posted on
04/28/2014 9:50:02 AM PDT
by
CSM
(Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
To: Lazamataz
The Federal Government has become the ENEMY OF AMERICA. You just now noticed this (I've had the same tagline for years)
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posted on
04/28/2014 9:50:13 AM PDT
by
from occupied ga
(Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
To: george76
This must be LePage. Maine has a great governor. He began his life running away from home at age 12. He never went back. And now he’s the governor. Interestingly, he has a brother on welfare. Apparently, they don’t get along. (Heard on the Howie Carr Show.)
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posted on
04/28/2014 9:52:29 AM PDT
by
St_Thomas_Aquinas
( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
To: george76
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posted on
04/28/2014 9:57:14 AM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: george76
Surprised but happy to hear it
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posted on
04/28/2014 9:58:00 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: george76
That’ll never happen in Massachusetts while Presidential candidate “Coupe Deval” is Governor of the Gay State.It's racist...it marginalizes the most vulnerable among us...it discriminates against LBQT....it only benefits the 1%....
To: george76
If americans really understood the depth and width of welfare fraud that goes on every single day, they would be hanging their congressman from lamp posts....
I would estimate at minimum 50 % of these receiving entitlements actually don’t qualify. ..
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posted on
04/28/2014 10:07:05 AM PDT
by
Popman
("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
Yes, that’s our Gov.
It will be rolled out in a small area first.
I attended a few if the committee hearings about abuse in the system.
The career bureaucrats are dragging their feet about ANY kind of welfare reform.
They will figure out a way to sabotage this effort.
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posted on
04/28/2014 10:13:10 AM PDT
by
maine yankee
(I got my Governor at 'Marden's')
To: Kartographer
Photo ID should fix the identity fraud problem.
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Voter ID ping!
Thanks george76.
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posted on
04/28/2014 10:21:46 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Popman
Eligibility for food stamps is difficult to lose, and last I knew wasn’t permitted as sanctions when a client receives too much aid in some other area, or in that one. For example, they get food stamps and medicaid for three kids, but two of the kids wind up spending the summer with an aunt out of state, and the mother doesn’t report the change. When (that is, if) it is discovered, or reported later (that does happen), one or more grants get reduced by more than that amount in order to recoup the difference. Food stamps just goes down to the level that is appropriate at the time (based on mouths to feed), but the overage is never repaid.
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posted on
04/28/2014 10:26:48 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Lazamataz
And I would be willing to bet that the vast majority of those on welfare in Maine are white.
You see, welfare and welfare fraud are not race issues.
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posted on
04/28/2014 10:45:01 AM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
To: Vermont Lt; Lazamataz
Laz made no reference to race whatsoever in the post you’re replying to.
To: Vermont Lt
I hope that was meant as sarcasm, by the way.
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