Florida welfare drug testing

[arabianequine]

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but alcohol is legal certain drugs are not and if it is prescription prove you have it ordered by the doctor.

 

[arabianequine]

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Makes me laugh....me and my husband and some other family and friends we know always joke about how to get hired at walmart and mcdonalds.

 

[arabianequine]

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Sounds like a great plan to me.

 

[chics in the sun]

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Well said, Kikiriki. Even if we set aside all the debate about civil rights and de-criminalizing drugs and how we treat the poor in this country, we can look at it this way:

It will be a colossal waste of tax payers money.

The money spent will most likely line the pockets of our rat of a governor, who's wife has shares in the company that will do the testing.

No research has ever determined the need for this legislation, or that it is an effective means of reducing drug abuse. We will be spending MILLIONS of dollars to drug test people who have never used, and likely never will use, drugs - to recoup just a few thousand dollars in aid money. And are we going to provide drug treatment to those that test positive? Don't make me laugh. Those programs are being cut left and right by the same rat that is implementing this.

I've lost a job I love thanks to the budget cuts. I know some cuts needed to happen, and I'm okay with that. I'm a social worker in an urban high school, working with teen mothers to make sure they graduate and have a plan for supporting themselves and their children, as well as try to make them the best mothers they can be. Teach them how to raise children that will be non-violent and sucessful in school. We have numbers to support the effectiveness of my program, but that doesn't matter. Instead money that COULD HAVE saved my job is being spent on a worthless program that will not help anyone - except the rat. And it makes me SO VERY ANGRY. I demand better of my elected officials.

 

[Two Creeks Farm]

Where is it a "right" to even have welfare? We want a government that is a minimal intrusion in our lives yet we expect them to handle aspects of our lives that quite frankly arent within their powers to handle.....such as many many entitlement programs and welfare/assistance programs. They havent been able to manage one program efficiently or positively and we want them to do more?

Get back to the Constitution, bare bones government and let those on the public dole ruck up and do better.

 

[Wifezilla]

 

[bakerjw]

If you think that we treat our poor poorly then you need to spend time in the third world where there are no safety nets. Where there is no right to an education. The poor in those areas are strong people with a determination to work hard to get ahead. Sure some of them will rob you blind given the chance but they do what they have to do. They also know the value of an education. When Oprah opened her school in South Africa she caught grief because we have poor people here. Her response was that when asked what they wanted most in the world children there usually answered that they wanted an education while kids here wanted a Playstation or Air Jordans. Education is the key but unfortunately we have a culture that is all about gimme gimme gimme and we keep giving giving giving. We've lost a lot of our work ethic. To deny that there is a segment in this country that knows how to use and abuse our system would be extremely naive.

I'm sorry that you lost your job working with inner city kids due to budget cuts. Unfortunately there are going to be a lot more coming in the not so distant future. It will be a sad day when that happens because we'll have a lot of people with no idea of how to fend for themselves or survive.

IMHO if you are a government employee (includes every one of them all the way up to the POTUS) or receiving assistance with taxpayer dollars (regular social security exempted) then drug testing should be a condition.

 

[zazouse]

I have to take a drug test to get a job and pay welfare, but people on welfare don't have to take a drug test to GET welfare
I do hope our state passes the same law very soon it has been along time comming.

There are many people out there that need help and don't misuse the system but there are many more that do misuse the system and that should have been addressed long ago IMO

 

[Kikiriki]

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Did not know this, and it explains the everything. Isn't that an ethics violation? Reminds me of Jeb and testing in schools...follow the money and you will often discover why there is a sudden need for something...

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

The CNN article indicated that he is selling off his shares in the testing companies. So is his wife. I think it said the deal should be done in the next couple of weeks (before testing would begin).