Posted on 09/25/2015 8:38:59 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Well, the days of being quiet are gone, he wrote. We will be submitting a bill to the next legislative session asking that a website be created containing the names, addresses, length of time on assistance and the benefits being collected by every individual on the dole.
After all, the public has a right to know how its money is being spent, Macdonald said.
"Mayor MacDonald is wasting everyone's time, Democratic candidate Ben Chin told FoxNews.com in an email. He's never passed a single policy at the local level, let alone in the state legislature. Resorting to publicly shaming poor people is a sad, desperate act.
Maine, though, is no stranger to controversial restrictions on welfare. Though the program commonly known as welfare uses federal dollars, states have the authority to set conditions on the funding, and Maine Gov. Paul LePage has pursued such reforms including drug-testing some recipients.
Macdonald defended his plan in an interview with the Press Herald.
Go into a grocery store. They flaunt it, he said of welfare recipients. Im not sorry. I hope this makes people think twice about applying for welfare.
In his column, Macdonald also said hed introduce a bill limiting assistance to 60 months total.
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My wife works in a grocery store and can confirm that. She can also confirm that a lot of them are talking on cell phones and driving $30k cars. They're usually working under the table.
Governor LePage has done a great job in reforming Maine's welfare culture.
You need to dress up as a Native American and chuck their tea into the harbor.
Funny you say that. I’m flying my Gadsden Flag in honor of Boehner’s resignation today :)
The Mayor of this article is getting set to renew his tenure by framing a whole class that qualifies for assistance, rather than dealing with the qualification rules, or cutting off individual cheaters whose behavior exasperates the taxpayer.
Stiffening the selection rules takes too long to impact the next election. His move is a quick news-gathering, face-saving, and blame-shifting device at somebody else's expense. He's one of those to whom lax welfare administration ought to be credited, not to its recipients, whatever their motives.
Water and other things in it flow downward. The mayor is part of the problem, not the source of a solution.
Read the first page to find out who was working in the 1980s and 1990s:
http://www.ssntracking.com/trackmid/209-54-4
Gotta wonderits names don't read like crewmen of the USS Arizona.
:-/
Read the first page to find out who was working in the 1980s and 1990s:
http://www.ssntracking.com/trackmid/209-54-4
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