no pity for the lazy...How was this law applied to those who already had jobs?
So, was the drop a result of people going to work, or was the drop a result of those people moving out of the state?
Next step make SNAP like WIC. They can get help to purchase necessaries such as cereal, juice, milk, deli meats/cheese, hamburger, fresh veggies, etc. Tax payers shouldn’t be paying for their lobster or filet dinner.
Another reason why Paul LePage is one of America’s greatest Governors.
I’d like to see the number breakout of the 9,500 who dropped out that got a full time job since uncle sugar cut them off....
My bet would be a large percent...
Of course the democrats are upset rather than delighted for these people. The republicans are weening these people off the democrats vote buying heroin.
Wow, 12,000 to 2,500... that’s pretty amazing.
Great idea. Hope it catches on.
No taxpayer should be used as another mans slave.
At the close of 2014 approximately 12,000 individuals were enrolled in the state assistance program.
This:
http://www.governing.com/gov-data/food-stamp-snap-benefits-enrollment-participation-totals-map.html
shows about a quarter million food stamp recipients in Maine
“Do you see what Maine did there? They’re making people exhaust their possibilities for employment before giving them a handout.”
Fingers crossed that this actually works!
I bet that a lot of those 9,500 welfare bums are Somali immigrants who moved to Minnesota or California where they can join their Somali relatives who are sucking the Minnesota and California taxpayers dry.
Its like being on FR!
I know "Its" should be "It's"! I did that on purpose.
Paul Lepage is a true hero. He makes Christie look like a wimp and he is the real deal.
“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”—Benjamin Franklin
The comments on the bottom are great.
I thought I was reading Free Republic there for a moment with the grammar Nazis.
Great that everything is working out in Maine. A success story for sure.
The entire welfare state needs to be destroyed. Its premise is to buy votes for one group while stealing from another.
It will exist as long as we have have present currency and financial system.
no pity for the lazy...Forcing food stamp recipients to work is like spraying a can of Raid down an anthill. Almost everybody scatters.
An exodus took place to the most generous welfare area. Someone told them Maine. I read that the Mayor of Lewiston pleaded with the "Somali Community" of Georgia to not send any more people. He was promptly called a "racist". The hitherto available resource centers and financial outlets were being taxed to the point of collapse.
Someone there even employed a Canadian woman adviser on how to successfully integrate Somalian residents into the culture. Oh no! exclaimed I, another well meaning bureaucrat. I wonder if anyone from Maine knows just what is the situation regarding this sudden influx into a peaceful society?