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This mayor wants to publicize who’s on welfare and where they live
The Washington Post's PostNation ^ | September 24, 2015 | Elahe Izadi

Posted on 09/25/2015 3:27:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

If you receive government assistance in the state of Maine, Lewiston Mayor Robert Macdonald thinks the public has a right to know about it.

In a Thursday column for the Twin City Times, Macdonald said a bill will be submitted during Maine’s next legislative session “asking that a Web site be created containing the names, addresses, length of time on assistance and the benefits being collected by every individual on the dole.”

He added: “After all, the public has a right to know how its money is being spent.”

Proposals to target welfare recipients and reform assistance programs have become lightning rods for broader discussions on how the poor are treated and how taxpayer dollars are used.

Kansas lawmakers received both national criticism and praise this summer after approving a law limiting how people in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program can use their benefits. And at least 13 states have some sort of drug testing laws for public public assistance applicants or recipients....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: assistance; lewiston; maine; onthepublicdole; robertmacdonald; stolenmoney; taxes; welfare
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To: Gen.Blather

At the Wal-Mart checkouts the EBT slot is under the machine, not on the face like the one for credit and debit cards, which I’ve learned by watching the oxygen thieves. Take a look next time you’re there.


21 posted on 09/25/2015 3:43:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

List their job skills or last known employer & give businesses a bonus for hiring one of them.


22 posted on 09/25/2015 3:44:31 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Gen.Blather

My first wife was a certified gemologist and the Midwestern buyer for Zales, so I’m a little familiar.


23 posted on 09/25/2015 3:44:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: smokingfrog

We already reward employers with nice tax breaks for hiring them and have for quite some time.


24 posted on 09/25/2015 3:45:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I didn’t know that. Does every state do it?


25 posted on 09/25/2015 3:47:25 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Like the “media” boys always say, “The public has the right to know”.


26 posted on 09/25/2015 3:49:07 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Somebody wake me up when America's Popegasm is finally over.)
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To: smokingfrog

Federal:

Work Opportunity Tax Credit
http://www.doleta.gov/business/incentives/opptax/


27 posted on 09/25/2015 3:49:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

BR549...


28 posted on 09/25/2015 3:50:32 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Beware the Wisconsin Weasel - GOPe Plan B)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

[ At the Wal-Mart checkouts the EBT slot is under the machine, not on the face like the one for credit and debit cards, which I’ve learned by watching the oxygen thieves. Take a look next time you’re there. ]

Imagine a guerrilla attack on the card readers by inserting a piece of double duct taped card stock into the slot the day the EBT and SNAP cards get refilled, it would force all the EBT and SNAP people to not use self checkout.

One can dream....

Or course it would probably cause a zombie riot, os it is not recommended...


29 posted on 09/25/2015 3:51:15 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

But it’s all right to do the same for concealed carry permit holders.


30 posted on 09/25/2015 3:51:27 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes. About $140 billion. That’s why I used the word miniscule.


31 posted on 09/25/2015 3:52:22 PM PDT by Founding Father (The Pedophile moHAMmudd (PBUH---Pigblood be upon him))
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To: LegendHasIt

I once saw on FR (cannot remember who said it) someone suggest that, if the SHTF, they should raid the social service and housing offices and get a list of who has food stamps and Section 8. After that, find these people and, as I think I remember them saying, “get rid of the parasites for the good of the nation”.

Sorry....really BAD idea to publish addresses.


32 posted on 09/25/2015 3:55:31 PM PDT by hoagy62 (Only one solution left.....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
At the Wal-Mart checkouts the EBT slot is under the machine, not on the face like the one for credit and debit cards, which I’ve learned by watching the oxygen thieves. Take a look next time you’re there.

Actually, that slot is for all credit cards that use smart chip technology. I just received the last smart chip card the other day, so now I use that slot for all three of my credit cards. All cards in the US will have smart chips soon, if they don't already.

33 posted on 09/25/2015 3:56:02 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I always said when the feral gummint was tapping me for $40 and 50 K a year that it was enough to support a family. I wanted to know where they lived, how they were spending MY money, and it would be appreciated if they could at least pretend to be grateful.


34 posted on 09/25/2015 3:58:24 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Founding Father

That’s more than any country on Earth (save us) spend on defense and is bigger than most countries budgets or even GDP. Miniscule? Seriously?


35 posted on 09/25/2015 3:59:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: GraceG

The EBT cards at the Wal-Marts up here run through the same card readers as the debit and credit cards.

Also, EBT cards are NOT all refilled on the same day. In Washington state, the day they’re refilled is based on the last 2 or 4 digits on the card.


36 posted on 09/25/2015 3:59:49 PM PDT by hoagy62 (Only one solution left.....)
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To: gorush

I had to read the sign in your post several times before I realized it should have been spelt frize not frise.


37 posted on 09/25/2015 4:00:04 PM PDT by certrtwngnut
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To: Gay State Conservative

“Exact address? Possibly a bad idea.”

All you have to do around here is find where the Escalade with the rims is parked anyway.


38 posted on 09/25/2015 4:22:36 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: gorush

Hey, maybe somebody was looking for their dog, a Bichon Frise, and he was just saving them the trouble of going inside.


39 posted on 09/25/2015 4:40:26 PM PDT by LambSlave
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I like it, especially for those on some of the dole after 6 months.


40 posted on 09/25/2015 4:41:53 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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