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....
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It should be spelled frentz frize
How about just their photo and name be posted that way no complaints about HIPPA or concerns about addresses. Maybe only those getting more than 3 months of assistance.
I have a better idea. Anyone who has received a payment of any kind other than a court judgement from the government since the last election should be ineligible to vote in the next election. This should include welfare recipients of course, but also government employees, elected officials, as well as employees and stock holders of government contractors.
My understanding is that the chip cards are going out now and will be mandatory by October 2016.
Reckon by then the thieves will have cleared the chip hurdle too.
Disabled veterans too?
Jenny’s on welfare now ?
I proposed that some time ago (military exempted).
BANG!
Nailed it!
I would agree to that!!!
Don’t know about Jenny, but 13th Floor Elevator’s Tommy Hall was living on welfare in SF when last heard from (2012).
Thanks for your service, but welfare is welfare and people shouldn't be able to vote themselves a check.
Really? When someone gets injured in the service of our country and society and is compensated for that loss, it’s the same as a welfare mom?
“”Works For Me!””
And how - a mayor who makes sense and a governor who makes sense. Now to get two real conservatives from that state in the U. S. Senate and we’ll be on our way!!
Once you’ve allowed the one exception you have to expect there will be legions who will answer yes to that question. After all, welfare began in this country with civil war pensions.
YOU CONSIDER CIVIL WAR PENSIONS TO BE WELFARE?
Sure. They did at the time.
They? They who?
The elected officials who voted the program in.
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