[Schmedlap]

How is this for a compromise? Stop paying for all social programs. No welfare, food stamps, housing assistance, English as a second language, nothing. Then, there will no longer be an influx of people looking for a handout, and the people already there looking for a handout will be forced to go elsewhere. This will weed out the good Somalis and the good Americans from the bad ones. Oh wait. I forgot. If you don't want people taking your money, then you're a racist, bigot, homophobe, nazi, and you want to starve grandma and push her down the stairs. Nevermind.

[Risa]

Schmedlap...
>>Stop paying for all social programs. No welfare, food stamps, housing assistance, English as a second language, nothing.<<

A good idea, I think, would be for Maine's people to rally for welfare reform, so the state's beneifts are at the least no more generous than those of other states. This would eliminate an influx of all members of the human race who would travel here solely for generous benefits.

risa