Posted on 12/22/2015 3:41:25 PM PST by TigerClaws
Republican Gov. Paul LePage recently began enforcing Maine’s volunteer and work requirements for food stamp SNAP recipients to keep their benefits. The end result was more than 9,000 non-disabled adults getting dropped from the program.
The rules prevent adults who are not disabled and do not have dependents from receiving food stamps for more than three months, unless they work at least 20 hours a week, participate in a work-training program, or meet volunteer guidelines for 24 hours out of the month. Any one of those three getting met will not result in the loss of their SNAP food benefits.
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Cut everyone off from everything. Hungry people WILL work. Those that can’t can use the church.
There are plenty of cash jobs that aren’t illegal, particularly in Maine. If you’ve got a pickup truck with a welding rig or a log splitter, you’re going to be making money.
I expect many will be coming down to NJ; our state is probably trying to attract them to stem the loss of population here. We ascribe to Nancy Pelosi’s apparent belief that any wealth transfer is as good as a paycheck; the other 49 states’ taxpayers will pay to keep these people housed, fed, and schooled here in NJ.
Let them eat cake.
How many of these parasites are recent immigrants”? Losers.
II Thess. 3:10: For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. KJV
6 hours a week... and they would have kept the benefits. Watch the LibTARDS scream about this.
Right. I should have say ‘day laboring gigs’ as well.
That’s 1/3 of those on food stamps booted off.
Disabilities to spike in 2016.
In Louisiana one of the first actions of our governor elect was to end work requirements. Gotta keep the breeders busy cranking out the next generation of DemonRats.
Obama switched millions over to the disability roles. Keep the dependent class in place and cook the book on the work numbers. Plus, added benefit, it weakens the economy of the nation and makes us more likely to collapse. Cloward & Piven.
better yet... let them leave town
That sounds like a good first step (trusting that any people with genuine serious disabilities or who really cannot get and hold down jobs can still get food stamps in Maine). We need a large- scale cleanup of all the welfare abuse obsma’s prompted these last seven years.
Our Tea Party governor Lepage has been great.
Proud to be a Mainie!
Although the article shows an automatically generated date of today, the article is from May 2015 as noted by the first comment. This has been reported several times as new!
Ha. Sorry about posting it then.
Odd feature of their website...
This governor sounds good to me.
Maine ping.
The Lib - Rats are call this Heartless and Cruel.
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