53% Support Automatic Drug Testing For Welfare Applicants

[Brian4Liberty]

First it was drug testing to get certain safety related jobs.

Then it was drug testing for parolees and convicts.

Then it was drug testing for kids to play high school sports.

Then it was drug testing to hold a multitude of jobs, when it was not even required by law.

Now it's drug testing for state benefits.

And what will be next, eh?

Let's see...

I second this. Include medicare/medicaid recipients as well.

There we go!

Can we drug test Goldman Sachs, Citi, BoA, Boeing, ADM, and the myriad other corporate welfare queens?

Best idea yet!

I think we should drug test all government employees.

Absolutely, and it must include Congress, the President's Cabinet and the Supremes.

And how can we forget: all recipients of Unemployment Insurance and Social Security!

 

[nicoleeann]

We shouldn't have to deal with this nonsense at all. of course i dont want my money going to all the potheads and drug addicts and alcholics out there. typical government "fixing" a problem by more regulation and control. Eliminate public welfare and there would be so many less drug addicts anyways. They couldn't afford it.

 

[Razmear]

Wow, how the R3volution has changed since 2008.
I can't believe how fascist some of our members are now, don't turn against your fellow citizens because the government is corrupt.
It's perfectly OK to waste a few trillion blowing up brown folks overseas, but if the family down the street gets food stamps they are the enemy?
WTF?
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[Razmear]

Maybe you want this to be the new status quo?
http://www.wpxi.com/news/28583965/detail.html?cxntlid=cmg_cntnt_rss
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- A Lawrence County woman claims local officials improperly seized her newborn son after a positive test for opiates she said was triggered by a poppy seed bagel.

The lawsuit is the second in a year accusing Children and Youth Services of improperly taking a newborn.

Eileen Ann Bower is suing the county agency, a caseworker and Jameson Health System for negligence, invasion of privacy and violation of due process. She says the baby was taken from her three days after birth and returned two months later.

 

[AGRP]

They would void welfare all together if they really wanted a solution.

 

[Bman]

But they should be able to grow it for free, or buy some shwagg for about the same price as tobacco.

If they can grow it they can sell it and thus not need welfare.

 

[Bman]

Let's see...



There we go!



Best idea yet!



Absolutely, and it must include Congress, the President's Cabinet and the Supremes.

And how can we forget: all recipients of Unemployment Insurance and Social Security!

Of course socialism only works with more socialism. Then when you run out of the ability for more socialism your left with a big pile of shit.

 

[DamianTV]

This is why Democracy as a System of Government FAILS.

The Majority vote to take away from the Minority until no one is left with anything.

And for those of you that still think that the USA is a Democracy, and in Direct Contradiction to what any Politician will tell you, I will tell you that it is not. But since you may not believe me, you might want to ask one of the Founding Fathers.

When Benjamin Franklin exited the Constitutional Convention, he was asked by a woman "Sir, what have you given us?" to which he replied "A Republic Ma'am, if you can keep it."

Now, on the notion that the USA is a Republic and Not A Democracy, when the majority of the people vote to deprive the minority of the fruits of their labors, and insitute a Welfare System, then turn right back around and say that anyone who receives benefits from the Welfare System should be drug tested, not only do we create ourselves a lower class of citizen, and the equivilant of a Slave System, we make everyone that is a part of that system Less and Less Free.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXBZd3jmbWg

 

[oyarde]

I do not support drug testing or welfare .

 

[Anti Federalist]

I do not support drug testing or welfare .

That ^^^

Short, simple and to the point.

 

[brushfire]

I do not support drug testing or welfare .

That ^^^

Short, simple and to the point.

Cant argue there...

 

[matt0611]

I want being on welfare to be as unpleasant as possible. The less people stealing my money the better.

 

[Anti Federalist]

I want being on welfare to be as unpleasant as possible. The less people stealing my money the better.

Unpleasant is one thing.

Wholesale violation of fundamental rights is another thing.

All that does is set yet another precedent, kicking the can of tyranny another few feet down the road.

 

[Krugerrand]

This topic almost got me to give out some -rep the last time it came up. I can't believe how quick some of us can be to let the totalitarian camel nose under the tent. What's up with this "well don't accept the government money" line? Does your state accept federal highway funds? Sorry ... but accepting federal funds should not forfeit your inalienable rights. You do not get to control the actions of others.

Too bad if you don't like the chemicals they ingest or leaves they smoke. If you have a problem with that they are getting government funds and doing something in violation of the FDA ... then stop the government from redistributing funds and work towards abolishing the FDA. Those are your constitutional options.

 

[Anti Federalist]

And that's worth a +rep.

This topic almost got me to give out some -rep the last time it came up. I can't believe how quick some of us can be to let the totalitarian camel nose under the tent. What's up with this "well don't accept the government money" line? Does your state accept federal highway funds? Sorry ... but accepting federal funds should not forfeit your inalienable rights. You do not get to control the actions of others.

Too bad if you don't like the chemicals they ingest or leaves they smoke. If you have a problem with that they are getting government funds and doing something in violation of the FDA ... then stop the government from redistributing funds and work towards abolishing the FDA. Those are your constitutional options.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

I do not support drug testing or welfare .

I'll forth that position.

 

[Johncjackson]

if people want a free hand out. then they shouldn't be buying bags of marijuana or any drug. If they really want freedom stop sucking the state and federal titties!!

What if they are buying shoes or potato chips or duct tape or vegetable plants or bubble gum or condoms or toenail clippers or cheetos or postage stamps or gas or furnace filters or paper plates or pens or bandaids or any other random thing that shouldn't be illegal but reasonable people will disagree on whether they personally find it a good purchase based on individual needs/wants/prioirties?

 

[Johncjackson]

What about corporate welfare? How about drug testing of every executive, board member, and shareholder of every corporation or business that receives welfare? I guess that's not as easy/cowardly as beating up people on food stamps.

 

[Krugerrand]

What about corporate welfare? How about drug testing of every executive, board member, and shareholder of every corporation or business that receives welfare? I guess that's not as easy/cowardly as beating up people on food stamps.

Let's at least start with elected officials!

 

[mczerone]

No TV, movies, visits to the water park, video games, alcohol, tobacco, fast food, boxed food, couches, baths (only showers), growing a beard, having friends visit, going to a sporting event, reading fiction, or wasting time in church either.

These damn parasites need to work, damn it, and the State gets to decide how they live if they want a handout.