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Sunday, November 09, 2014

Maine Changes Rule for Food Stamps that Every State Should Follow

Another state is making people work for food stamps, and it has some people up in arms without knowing all the details. Typical liberals, who are filled with lots of emotion but low on the facts, are worried that children and disabled people will now go without. If they did a little research, they would know this expired waiver will only affect able-bodied people with no children.

The federal waiver that has been in place since 2010 because of the recession has been allowed to expire in the state of Maine. This allows Maine to reinstate a mandate requiring able-bodied adults who are 18 to 50 years old and have no children to work or volunteer 20 hours per week or they will be limited to three months of food stamp benefits over a three-year period.

Just elected to a second term, Maine’s Republican Governor Paul R. LePage is focused on broad welfare reform and said, “People who are in need deserve a hand up, but we should not be giving able-bodied individuals a handout. We must continue to do all that we can to eliminate generational poverty and get people back to work. We must protect our limited resources for those who are truly in need and who are doing all they can to be self-sufficient.”

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8 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 9, 2014 at 9:06 AM

    Amen. Now if the newly elected gop follows and business thrives and jobs are in abundance, we will ALL win.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 9, 2014 at 9:22 AM

    At last someone with a set of ball$

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  3. AnonymousNovember 9, 2014 at 1:08 PM

    When are the bankers who received the bailouts going to work for their welfare?

    Didn't Jesus have stipulations about the poor in his Gospel?

    I'm sure he demanded the poor to repay it somewhere.

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  4. AnonymousNovember 9, 2014 at 2:06 PM

    1:08--
    This doesn't have to do with the poor as much as the able-bodied leeches that the rest of us are paying for! Quit thumping the bible over something unrelated.

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  5. AnonymousNovember 9, 2014 at 2:08 PM

    No matter what party gets elected the banksters will always stay on top.

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  6. AnonymousNovember 9, 2014 at 7:57 PM

    True, true, 2:08!

    I applaud this action. The question is, with the reduced jobs available, what work do they do?

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  7. AnonymousNovember 10, 2014 at 7:32 AM

    1:08. Remember Ruth gleaning in the fields? The grain wasn't delivered. She had to go get it and it was hard work to pick out the grains that were dropped or left on the edges.

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  8. AnonymousNovember 10, 2014 at 8:10 AM

    There are a huge number of public service activities that could be counted as work. Day care assistant, personal care assistant, teaching assistant, public property maintenance (picking up trash, etc.), shelter volunteer, after school program volunteer, etc, etc.
    There are some things that you wouldn't want some people doing for whatever reason, but there's opportunity for everyone to pull his and her own weight, at least to some degree.

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