I would like to know where people think the money is coming from to support our welfare system. Can you tell the taxpayers what the percentage of working and not working people.

As a working person, we don’t have it easy either. We get up every morning to go to work.

Do you think I could get welfare because I’m too tired, or my car broke down.

I just want to commend our governor for his backbone. Who are the one’s who don’t like him? Every working person I talk to loves him.

So, what is the percentage that are working to the people who are not?

And, where is the money coming from to support the welfare people.

Diane Thomas, Greene

Editor’s note: According to the Maine Center for Workforce Research and Information, which is part of the state’s Department of Labor, in May 2015 the available civilian labor force in Maine was measured at 691,150. Of those, 658,937 were employed. Maine’s unemployment rate is 4.7 percent; the rate in the United States is 5.5 percent.