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• Anonymous

  Martin biggest loser from the democrates  Good luck to the rest of the task force.

• Anonymous

  Hmm lets see, what else can we take from our seniors?  Heck, they only worked 50, 60, or 70 odd years in this state.  They didn’t earn anything did they?  Plus hey, that was then and this is now.  They aren’t working now so they don’t deserve our concern.  Then there are those who cannot speak for themselves.  How about the poor, they are always an easy target?  LePage learned that at Mardens.  What about the disabled, they are another easy target.  Why should we pay for their care they’re just lazy anyway?  Heck if Lepage works this right he might be offered a slot in the Tea Party as VP in 2012.  I am not against cutting spending on things that are not necessary.  However I am against cutting spending on the backs of those folks I speak of above.

• Anonymous

  I still say go after fraud and we would not have to cut.

• Anonymous

  We’d have to start in the legislature if we did that. I’ve never met anyone who repeatedly made that type of remark who wasn’t stealing something themselves. Just an observation.

• Anonymous

  or maybe someone who is sick of working hard and seeing people abuse our State system  including abusing MaineCare and nothing is done to them. find them and prosecute them and make it serious….no excuses..

• Anonymous

  or maybe someone who is sick of working hard and seeing people abuse our State system  including abusing MaineCare and nothing is done to them. find them and prosecute them and make it serious….no excuses..

• Anonymous

  I thought that might be true for the first decade or so. But I learned prosecuting these people was much faster if I started with investigating people who made the type of comments you keep making. It’s like going fishing in the water.

• Anonymous

  I thought that might be true for the first decade or so. But I learned prosecuting these people was much faster if I started with investigating people who made the type of comments you keep making. It’s like going fishing in the water.

• Anonymous

  I thought that might be true for the first decade or so. But I learned prosecuting these people was much faster if I started with investigating people who made the type of comments you keep making. It’s like going fishing in the water.

• Anonymous

  I am sure it is like fishing in water….but when someone complains and you know the person is putting fake information on the form or not saying all the income…IE: tells the court has no money, ZERO…. yet has an on-line store selling products for YEARS….and states in other articles how much they make….and this person is getting State Aid…and nothing gets done about it…it is pretty sicking!  These type of people I have found out over the years always pushes blame to other people….and nothing ever happens to them.   Lets hope the State really steps it up!

• Anonymous

  Sounds like you have a real potential fraud to report. The best thing you can do is put all the information you have in writing, then call the local office of whatever State Aid you’re talking about, ask for a supervisor, and tell them you want to report suspected fraud, answer any questions, and then send the information where they tell you to send it. If everyone would do this when they have a real issue to report, you’re right. We’d all be better off. But people who make general claims that make it sound like everyone who receives help from the State is suspect, 99 times out of 100 the only real fraud they know about is the fraud they and their friends have committed, or they’re just lying. If everyone is doing it, why shouldn’t they. That’s what I’m talking about.