Eliot Cutler on Welfare & Poverty

We need welfare reform but not demonization of recipients

Eliot Cutler was critical: "I can't believe he meant to do that because it's extraordinarily insulting to the thousands of Maine people who worked all their lives and are now retired & trying to make ends meet by relying on Social Security and Medicare, programs to which they--and for that matter, Gov. LePage--are entitled," Cutler said. "I understand that we have welfare challenges in Maine and we need reform. I just don't talk about it in the way he does. I want to talk about how we can fix the problem. He is simply demonizing people and now expanding the definition of welfare beyond any definition I've ever observed."

Never abandon citizens who are unemployed, ill, or hungry