Predictable Florida Governor Will Drug Test Poor People

[upstatecajun]

Koch-gobbling weirdo Rick Scott is about to sign a bill that would require welfare recipients to undergo routine drug testing. Better still, this new legislation makes the poor people pay for their own drug tests! (Do you need welfare money, for food? No sir, you need that money to pay for your drug test.) Anyway: “Recipients who test positive for drugs would lose their benefits for a year. If they fail a second time, they lose the benefits for three years. Parents who test positive must designate another adult to receive benefits on behalf of their children.” Sounds legit. Just another assault on poor people that will go entirely unnoticed. Pass the hobo beans! (What hobo beans? Oh, you mean this delicious drug test? Yummy in the tummy.)


http://wonkette.com/445423/predictable-florida-governor-will-drug-test-poor-people

[malaise]

1. And then he'll throw them into private prisons

and make the taxpayers' money make his friends rich

[ixion]

4. Yep, that's the plan

Screw the poor, enrich your buddies. That is SOP in US politics, I'm sad to say. :puke:

[HowHasItComeToThis]

30. HEY FOXXEY.... PUNISH THE VICTIM

[Johonny]

23. +1

[hlthe2b]

2. If it is Federal aid, is that even legal?

I so detest these nasty assed Rethugs.

[Duer 157099]

3. Is Floriduh just trying to increase the homeless population?

Or don't they understand cause-and-effect?

[ixion]

7. It's not easy to be 'homeless' in Florida

the cops harass the homeless constantly, at the behest of city/county governments. They need to keep things bright and shiny for the tourists.

[onethatcares]

14. wtf, there are over 300,000 vacant homes thoughout the state

counting the condos that have been walked out on never to be re financed again.

Gladfully the growth management law was tossed and the developers can get to work building more vacant properties no one can afford.

Makes me proud to be a floriduhan.

[ixion]

24. Yeah, I understand. I'm here, too...

very sad. :(

[fascisthunter]

5. these rich pricks make me sick! They create poverty then treat the poor like crap

fuck you republican scumbags!

[LiberalAndProud]

6. Stupid.

There are about 900 ways around this law. Not one of them keeps the test labs from making money though. I believe that's the point of it all anyway.

[rfranklin]

8. It is important to show your inferiors what their place is...

Once they know they are happier. :sarcasm:

[LiberalAndProud]

9. If they already jump through all the hoops to get the aid in the first place,

likely they have become innured to this kind of treatment. They'll find out the specifics. If they use, they'll figure out the loophole and they'll jump through that. This kind of legislation infuriates me, because it appears to be oh so reasonable, but does nothing except to enrich the underwritten-by-legislation testing labs.

[rfranklin]

28. Yep, I think that's the reall reason...

Just think of those testing fees rolling in!

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. I really want to follow the ensuing lawsuit on this.

I can think of all sorts of issues.

[BlueJazz]

11. I think it's a good thing and about time.

When these Rich corporations come to get their tax rebates and tax exceptions, we can see if they're on the "up and up".

What???,,,it doesn't apply to THOSE welfare people??...Oh...I get it....

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[onethatcares]

15. I think you need to be drug tested.

because somehow, I think you drive the same roads I do and that scares the beegeesuz outa me.

Do you like pizza?

[LiberalAndProud]

16. Because if they're poor they are probably users, right?

This accomplishes nothing, except to make sanctimonious people feel good. There are children who will go hungry because of this law. Count on it.

[CatWoman]

17. Holland my ass

[golddigger]

19. You do know that he has a vested interest in the drug testing

companies? It's all about money for this scumbag. He will be lining his pockets with money on the backs of the poor.

[LiberalAndProud]

20. I really didn't know that. I'm more right ... I mean more correct ... than I thought I was.

Taking food out of the mouths of children and putting the money in his own pocket. Righteous!

[Ramulux]

22. Yeah fuck drug users!

Its not like those people probably have serious mental and physical problems which may cause them to do drugs, lets just take away their only source of income and that will magically fix everything.

[AC_Mem]

25. So...2 posts and this is what you came here to say?

How.....interesting.

[onethatcares]

13. gaud it's getting bad down here.

we have a complete repuke stanglehold on the legislature and the courts. the legislature is so corrupt they passed a bill ok ing the taking of bribes, excuse me, donations to "leadership funds" that get laundered into every smary buttheads pocket without knowing who/what/when and where.

prickscott or his staff won't use email in order to defeat the sunshine law.

the farking legislature has proposed cutting 1 billion dollars from education in order to balance the budget which will lead to teacher layoffs and furloughs.

the unemployed will only have 12 weeks to find employment or lose their benefits (jesus that one just kills me), they'll probably have to get drug teste to just to insure they aren't spening that $165.00 a week friviously.

but on a brighter note, corporate taxes were cut an automatic $1100.00 a year, the growth management law has been stomped into the polluted aquifier and
we got the barking tree frog as our state amphibian.

Thank gaud we didnt' get highspeed rail.

[Initech]

18. Time to uncover his personal stash!

[Ramulux]

21. I dont think anyone has any idea how much harm this will cause

Many people will lose their benefits because of this and they will turn to the only option they have left- crime. This bill will force poor people who have done drugs to do terrible things in order to keep themselves and their families alive.

I'm sure there are a lot of welfare recipients who have drug problems and taking away their only source of income is going to destroy these people's lives.

[WCGreen]

26. We may have to storm the Bastille..

Jean Valjean (also referred to as "Monsieur Madeleine," "Ultime Fauchelevent," "Monsieur Leblanc," "Urbain Fabre," "24601" and "9430"; c. 1769-1833) is the protagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables. The character's nineteen year-long struggle with the law for stealing bread so he could feed his sister's children (5 years for the theft, 12 years for four attempted escapes and 2 years for fighting back during one escape attempt) during a time of economic and social depression - along with police inspector Javert, who relentlessly pursues Valjean - has become archetypal in literary culture. While in prison, he was first labeled 24601 then labeled 9430.

[Lucinda]

27. I think Kentucky has something similar now.

[Oasis_]

29. I would agree with it IF..

the test was performed one time max during the period of eligibility and the state picked up the entire cost. Random testing, however, with the burden of payment placed on the recipient seems counterproductive and unfair.

We want welfare recipients out looking for gainful employment. How's an individual to schedule an interview if they never know when exactly they'll be called to submit for a mandatory (for continuation of benefits) drug screening?

Oasis