The out-of-control welfare and handouts continue. Benefits have soared 70 percent, with 47.8 million receiving benefits.

Lewiston Mayor Bob Macdonald and Social Services Director Sue Charron are cracking down on welfare fraud in the city. Yet one day at a store I saw a young man with an EBT card buying food and then he asked the cashier for cigarettes and pulled out a roll of money of $50s and $100s.

I was in shock.

Local and state government officials have been giving program benefits to the wrong people for years.

I loved it when Mayor Macdonald said Lewiston was not going to be known as a welfare town anymore.

I say “good job” to Macdonald and Charron.

Reggie Bechard, Lewiston