This article is a follow-up from past articles regarding the invasion of non-residents from other states who have been crossing the New York state lines in order to collect taxpayers’ money for welfare and free benefits the first of every month because the state has no residency law to stop this problem.

Chautauqua County is accepting these non-residents on a monthly basis, but no one in the County Legislature seems to care about this wasteful money given away free to other states’ welfare recipients. I realize this is a state matter and has to be investigated by Albany, but they don’t seem to care about this mishandling of taxpayers’ money.

It is bad enough the taxpayers have to take care of freeloaders who live in this state, but why do we as taxpayers have to pay for outsiders as well? When will Albany wake up and understand this problem and take this problem seriously?

Why doesn’t our County Legislature wake up to this problem and try and get some answers from Albany? It seems that those in politics are not doing their jobs in reference to this major problem of outsiders taking New York state taxpayers’ money and going back over the state line to their home state.

We need a residency law put into place now, not next year.

Mayville, wake up! Again I contacted our leaders in Buffalo who are supposed to represent us and again they state they know nothing about this problem. Of course not.

The out-of-state freeloaders are not collecting checks in Albany, they are enrolling in Chautauqua County. How much longer is this giving of our money away to out-of-staters going to continue?

We as taxpayers living in Chautauqua County deserve answers and deserve those answers now, not next year. Wake up, Chautauqua County. We cannot afford to pay out-of-state freeloaders anymore.

Richard Makuch is a Dunkirk resident. Send comments to editorial@observertoday.com