Wednesday, July 30, 2014

If you're 'Able-Bodied' expect to Work for Food Stamps in the State of Maine (auto-on-video)

Gov LePage orders new work requirement for welfare:
The LePage administration is taking another step toward pushing welfare recipients to find jobs. The Department of Health and Human Services announced on Wednesday that, starting October first, "able bodied" adults with no dependents who get SNAP benefits -- often called food stamps -- will have to work 20 hours per week or do volunteer work. There are an estimated 12,000 recipients in Maine who meet that standard.
LePage who came from humble beginnings had this to say about his critics who claim he has a "War on the Poor":
"I want to teach people," he says. "You can give somebody a meal and they'll eat or you can teach them to earn a meal. I don't have a war on poverty. I have a war on the system."
He says critics are also wrong when they claim he won't negotiate or compromise, that he has a "my way or the highway" attitude. It isn't true, he says, and puts the blame for the lack of compromise and progress in the legislature on Democratic leaders.
LePage claims they are the problem, for refusing to negotiate with him on various issues.
"They walk in, sit down, they say no and walk out," says Lepage.
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