Thread: UPDATE- Maine Governor LePage Slashes State Aid For Cities That Give Welfare to Illeg

Maine Governor LePage Slashes State Aid For Cities That Give Welfare to Illegal Aliens

by Top Right News on
November 15, 2014

by Brian Hayes | Top Right News

Paul LePage is sending a message to Washington: putting Americans over illegal aliens is a winning strategy.

Fresh off a stunning re-election in a three-way race for Maine’s governor, Paul LePage is not wasting any time making good on a major campaign promise: to slash funds for cities who give welfare to illegal aliens.

LePage — called “America’s Craziest Governor” by Politico — was widely expected to lose by the media and even Republican establishment earlier this year. But he confounded the conventional wisdom of “moderation” on immigration in “middle of the road” Maine, by putting his fight against illegals in Maine front and center. Voters rallied to his side when he rallied to theirs.
Yahoo News reported:

Maine’s largest city has begun clamping down on spending as newly re-elected Republican Governor Paul LePage makes good on a campaign promise to cut funding to cities and towns that give aid to undocumented immigrants.

In an internal memo released on Wednesday, Portland city officials said they had frozen hiring and cut travel and overtime spending after their requests for reimbursement from the state for assistance provided to families with children in emergencies had gone unanswered since July.
Tea Party-backed LePage, who was re-elected last week with a strong mandate to reform the state’s welfare system, had threatened in June to cut funding to municipalities that give state-reimbursed general assistance to undocumented immigrants.

“Tell your city councilors and selectmen to stop handing out your money to illegals,” LePage said in a radio address.

Portland does not distinguish between documented and undocumented residents, and has argued state law forbids them from denying aid to residents in need, a position backed by Maine Attorney General Janet Mills, a Democrat.

This shows how crazy and out-of-touch are Democrats on this issue — they are actually willing to cut jobs for citizens in order to keep handing out welfare cash to illegal invaders — and exit polls showed that many Democrats and Independents were with LaPage on this one.

The LaPage victory paralleled a stunning result in Oregon on Nov. 4th, when 70% of voters in that super blue state rejected drivers licenses for illegals, a staggering margin that outpaced the margin for any other candidate or measure on the ballot.

Immigration patriotism wins. Will the new GOP majority finally get it?

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This is great news to hear of a major victory for Americans over illegal aliens in Maine of all places!

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Paul LePage is sending a message to Washington: putting Americans over illegal aliens is a winning strategy

Right on! Great to see when a politician puts Americans before illegals.

Maine Just Put Welfare Leeches In Their Place, Every American Needs To See What Happened Next

by Top Right News on
August 5, 2015 in Maine, Politics, Welfare

by Jason DeWitt | Top Right News
Governor Paul LePage of Maine isn’t running for president. But perhaps he should be.
Because he is doing in Maine exactly what Americans want to see — but which most candidates are not even talking about.
Last November, just one week after his re-election, LePage did something unusual — he made good on a major campaign promise, by slashing funds for cities who give welfare to illegal aliens. The policy has already had a huge impact, with illegals fleeing in droves, and stunned Democrat mayors forced to defend giving handouts to illegal invaders before angry voters at the next election.
Now, just 6 months later, LePage is making good on another promise: to put an end to welfare leeches in his state, once and for all.
The results are something every American should see — an EPIC victory. And Democrats are FURIOUS.
Governor LePage passed a measure last year that requires recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program (SNAP) to complete a certain number of work, job-training, or volunteer hoursin order to be eligible for assistance. The new requirement has resulted in a dramatic decline in food stamp enrollment, resulting in a logical win-win for all of Maine.
At the end of 2014 the enrollment count for SNAP was approximately 12,000 individuals. Now that individuals have to complete either 20 hours of part-time work a week, volunteer for at least 24 hours per month, or get involved in a vocational program, the amount of SNAP recipients has dramatically dropped from 12,000 to approximately 2,500 by the end of March — a nearly 80% reduction in welfare.
The drop in numbers exceeded Republicans’ expectations by leaps and bounds.
Instead of just giving welfare applicants an easy way out, Maine is forcing people to explore every opportunity for employment before allowing capable adults to take advantage of the system and the people of Maine.

Of course Democrats are insisting that the program targets those in poverty or rural areas but their argument is invalid. The individuals benefiting from the new food-stamp law are the ones who really need the assistance and aren’t just lazy parasites to society who suck the vitality out of taxpayers.
This is a huge victory for the Republicans of Maine and of course the sore loser Democrats are trying to tarnish the reformation’s success. Democrats are urging for special measures to ease back on some of the new requirements because they are “too strict”. Too strict to get off your butt and earn your money, or at least volunteer or learn a skill? Maine citizens aren’t buying it.

Below: Irate Portland SNAP recipients wait on line for vocational programs
Maine was one of eight other states that took similar measures and declined a federal waiver for the new rule that requires welfare recipients to get off their behinds and contribute to society like everyone else.
This huge drop in the number of able-bodied welfare leeches after forcing them to work for their needs proves everything we’ve ever reported about welfare abusers. They’re only looking for the next handout.
Now if only we could get every American governor to do what Paul LePage is doing — against both illegal aliens, and welfare leeches — we might well save our nation.
http://toprightnews.com/maine-just-put-welfare-leeches-in-their-place-every-american-needs-to-see-what-happened-next/


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