Lewiston Mayor Gets It Wrong (This Time)

A few months ago I discussed the words that Lewiston Maine Mayor Robert Macdonald commenting on Somalians living in the city. At that point, I agreed with what he said.

Now the mayor has criticized the welfare system by wanting to start his own crusade against anybody on welfare. He claims that if you are on welfare then don’t come to live in his city.

While this is a bold more, it is also a very dumb one at that now that he wants to alienate anyone on welfare. While I will agree that there is plenty of fraud to go around, there are certainly enough people who get on the roll by being a young (under 25 years) woman who is either expecting a child or has a child with no husband. Or maybe they are a foreigner that just arrived in the United States and want help; they too get into the system.

However people like myself, a guy with no children and have money in the bank has no chance whatsoever of getting on the system. I know people who purposely have children and remain unmarried just to get the benefits.

If the mayor wants to end the problem, I would recommend that he become an agent of the Department of Human Services and stop the fraud at the source rather than make sweeping statements offending everyone whether they are on welfare or not.

But then again isn’t Maine’s new slogan “The Way Life Shouldn’t Be”. It fits perfectly to me. Don’t you agree?