Welfare isn’t supposed to be a cozy hammock; it’s meant to be a safety net that protects someone if they stumble.

When Paul LePage and Bruce Poliquin entered the state house in 2011, they had a big mess — nearly 9,000 Mainers on the TANF program stuck in poverty. Today, there are only approximately 2,000 Mainers on TANF, thanks to the welfare-to-work policies championed by LePage and Poliquin that provided a simple path out of poverty.

The basis behind that policy is an old adage: “When you give a man a fish, you will feed him for a day. When you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.” Bruce Poliquin knows that people need to be transitioned from welfare to work, which is why he recently introduced federal legislation based off his success in Maine.

That is why I am supporting Bruce Poliquin in November.

Jason Goulet, Lewiston