This mayor wants to publicize who’s on welfare and where they live

[David_42]

This mayor is a moron.
This mayor wants to publicize who’s on welfare and where they live

If you receive government assistance in the state of Maine, Lewiston Mayor Robert Macdonald thinks the public has a right to know about it.

In a Thursday column for the Twin City Times, Macdonald said a bill will be submitted during Maine’s next legislative session“asking that a Web site be created containing the names, addresses, length of time on assistance and the benefits being collected by every individual on the dole.”

He added: “After all, the public has a right to know how its money is being spent.”

Proposals to target welfare recipients and reform assistance programs have become lightning rods for broader discussions on how the poor are treatedand how taxpayer dollars are used.

Kansas lawmakers received both national criticism and praise this summer after approving a law limiting how people in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program can use their benefits. And at least 13 states have some sort of drug testing laws for public public assistance applicants or recipients.

[Kansas bans welfare recipients from seeing movies, going swimming on government’s dime]

Macdonald, a local Republican mayor who is up for reelection in November, can’t submit a state bill himself, so he would need a state lawmaker to back the plan in the legislature.

In his column Thursday, he wrote that Maine has a Web site listing the pension amounts individuals receive — something “taxpayers have a right to know,” he said — and wondered why welfare recipients’ information isn’t also publicly posted.

“The answer: our liberal, progressive legislators and their social-service allies have made them a victimized, protected class,” Macdonald wrote. “It’s none of your business how much of your money they get and spend. Who are you to question it? Just shut up and pay!”

 

[Sun Devil 92]

And he's wrong why ?

When you tie into the government....you get a lot more than you want.

 

[David_42]

And he's wrong why ?

When you tie into the government....you get a lot more than you want.

He's wrong because this is an invasion of privacy, puts peoples lives in danger, and is another pathetic way to demonize the poor.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

And he's wrong why ?

When you tie into the government....you get a lot more than you want.

He's wrong because this is an invasion of privacy, puts peoples lives in danger, and is another pathetic way to demonize the poor.

It's not an invasion of privacy.

They publish who gets speeding tickets......

Put's peoples lives in danger ? You are funny.

Demonize them ? What did he say he was going to do with the information to justify this claim ?

 

[SassyIrishLass]

And he's wrong why ?

When you tie into the government....you get a lot more than you want.

He's wrong because this is an invasion of privacy, puts peoples lives in danger, and is another pathetic way to demonize the poor.

Yeah but posting where the officer that shot the Gentile Giant lived like CNN did was OK? Right?

 

[David_42]

And he's wrong why ?

When you tie into the government....you get a lot more than you want.

He's wrong because this is an invasion of privacy, puts peoples lives in danger, and is another pathetic way to demonize the poor.

It's not an invasion of privacy.

They publish who gets speeding tickets......

Put's peoples lives in danger ? You are funny.

Demonize them ? What did he say he was going to do with the information to justify this claim ?

You loons are the ones who want people out of your lives, now you want to start tagging people on welfare so inbred hicks will have that information.

 

[David_42]

And he's wrong why ?

When you tie into the government....you get a lot more than you want.

He's wrong because this is an invasion of privacy, puts peoples lives in danger, and is another pathetic way to demonize the poor.

Yeah but posting where the officer that shot the Gentile Giant lived like CNN did was OK? Right?

That is wrong, I agree.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

And he's wrong why ?

When you tie into the government....you get a lot more than you want.

He's wrong because this is an invasion of privacy, puts peoples lives in danger, and is another pathetic way to demonize the poor.

It's not an invasion of privacy.

They publish who gets speeding tickets......

Put's peoples lives in danger ? You are funny.

Demonize them ? What did he say he was going to do with the information to justify this claim ?

You loons are the ones who want people out of your lives, now you want to start tagging people on welfare so inbred hicks will have that information.

Did the mayor say that ? Inbred hicks ?

 

[Obiwan]

Go for it!!!!

I have a right to know if I adopted a moron!!!!

 

[David_42]

And he's wrong why ?

When you tie into the government....you get a lot more than you want.

He's wrong because this is an invasion of privacy, puts peoples lives in danger, and is another pathetic way to demonize the poor.

It's not an invasion of privacy.

They publish who gets speeding tickets......

Put's peoples lives in danger ? You are funny.

Demonize them ? What did he say he was going to do with the information to justify this claim ?

You loons are the ones who want people out of your lives, now you want to start tagging people on welfare so inbred hicks will have that information.

Did the mayor say that ? Inbred hicks ?

No, I'm saying we don't need tea party members knowing the location of people on welfare.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

In his column Thursday, he wrote that Maine has a Web site listing the pension amounts individuals receive — something “taxpayers have a right to know,” he said — and wondered why welfare recipients’ information isn’t also publicly posted.

This was interesting:

Lewiston — with about 36,000 residents — is one of Maine’s most populous cities and has become home to many Somali refugees. Macdonald later attempted to clarify his remarks, saying that they were taken out of context and that he never said anything disparaging about the Somali community.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

And he's wrong why ?

When you tie into the government....you get a lot more than you want.

He's wrong because this is an invasion of privacy, puts peoples lives in danger, and is another pathetic way to demonize the poor.

It's not an invasion of privacy.

They publish who gets speeding tickets......

Put's peoples lives in danger ? You are funny.

Demonize them ? What did he say he was going to do with the information to justify this claim ?

You loons are the ones who want people out of your lives, now you want to start tagging people on welfare so inbred hicks will have that information.

Did the mayor say that ? Inbred hicks ?

No, I'm saying we don't need tea party members knowing the location of people on welfare.

So you are making stuff up....as usual.

For someone in college you have a lot of time to post.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

I think there are too many on benefits that don't belong on them but I don' see the point in doing this. It serves no purpose, the ones that need it will be hurt and the ones that don't won't care

 

[David_42]

He's wrong because this is an invasion of privacy, puts peoples lives in danger, and is another pathetic way to demonize the poor.

It's not an invasion of privacy.

They publish who gets speeding tickets......

Put's peoples lives in danger ? You are funny.

Demonize them ? What did he say he was going to do with the information to justify this claim ?

You loons are the ones who want people out of your lives, now you want to start tagging people on welfare so inbred hicks will have that information.

Did the mayor say that ? Inbred hicks ?

No, I'm saying we don't need tea party members knowing the location of people on welfare.

So you are making stuff up....as usual.

For someone in college you have a lot of time to post.

 

[imawhosure]

And he's wrong why ?

When you tie into the government....you get a lot more than you want.

He's wrong because this is an invasion of privacy, puts peoples lives in danger, and is another pathetic way to demonize the poor.

Yeah but posting where the officer that shot the Gentile Giant lived like CNN did was OK? Right?

Hey, your employer and benefactor has your home address, right Sassy! And who are these peoples benefactors? TAXPAYERS, that is who/whom.

And besides OP author; the lefties put up these POOR welfare recipients as wonderful, terrific, spectacular, people. Why hell, they are the salt of the earth! Therefore, we taxpayers need their address to go congratulate them on being so wonderful and spectacular. What is wrong with that?

 

[Sun Devil 92]

I think there are too many on benefits that don't belong on them but I don' see the point in doing this. It serves no purpose, the ones that need it will be hurt and the ones that don't won't care

From what I can tell, he's been raising the issue of where tax dollars go for years.

I applaud that.

This will never happen......

But if you read the article...you see that there are places like Kansas limiting what people can do on our dime.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

And he's wrong why ?

When you tie into the government....you get a lot more than you want.

He's wrong because this is an invasion of privacy, puts peoples lives in danger, and is another pathetic way to demonize the poor.

Yeah but posting where the officer that shot the Gentile Giant lived like CNN did was OK? Right?

Hey, your employer and benefactor has your home address, right Sassy! And who are these peoples benefactors? TAXPAYERS, that is who/whom.

And besides OP author; the lefties put up these POOR welfare recipients as wonderful, terrific, spectacular, people. Why hl, they are the salt of the earth! Therefore, we taxpayers need their address to go congratulate them on being so wonderful and spectacular. What is wrong with that?

I think, you could view it as more of.....

1. I see you are on welfare Brad....nice boat.

2. I see you are on welfare Brad. Was not aware you are looking for a job. I know someone...... (assuming Brad really cares...and the few people I know from Maine are pretty proud.

 

[whitehall]

Doesn't the left have more to worry about than Lewiston, Maine's welfare list?

 

[David_42]

Doesn't the left have more to worry about than Lewiston, Maine's welfare list?

Oh, we worry about plenty of things, like causing you guys to be butthurt over gay marriage.

 

[imawhosure]

OMG, didn't realize that the OP author was the "Kenyan, Marxist, Liberal, Socialist, Communist." Forget what I said, let us all get on bended knee and worship his arrogance, lol!