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Trump To Sign Law That Increases Drug Tests for Unemployed Seeking Benefits
Conservative Tribune ^ | March 18 2017 | Conservative Tribune

Posted on 03/18/2017 12:45:01 AM PDT by CorporateStepsister

Welfare reform has been a high priority for Republicans and conservatives for many years, and now that President Donald Trump is in the White House, the possibility of such reform is finally feasible.

In what was quite possibly the opening salvo on welfare leeches, Trump was ready to sign a bill passed by Congress that would allow states to perform drug tests on those applying for unemployment benefits, WITI reported.

Under President Barack Obama, states weren’t allowed to test applicants for drugs unless they were applying for a job that already had mandatory drug testing. However, there’s a new sheriff in town — and he’s backed by a Republican-controlled Congress that, while far from perfect, is at least more likely to pass common-sense legislation like this than any legislative body under the control of people like former House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: congress; dopersrights; drugs; drugtest; iloveahappyending; pot; potheads; presidenttrump; republicans; trump; unemployed; welfare; welfarereform
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To: Maudeen

“How about random drug testing for government workers?”

I had to do that because of clearances. Pain in the ass, but necessary.


61 posted on 03/18/2017 7:31:13 AM PDT by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen)
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To: PLMerite

How about University Professors?


62 posted on 03/18/2017 7:32:13 AM PDT by Maudeen (No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
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To: Maudeen

“How about University Professors?”

Absolutely, and publish the results.


63 posted on 03/18/2017 7:44:19 AM PDT by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen)
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To: Maudeen
How about random drug testing for government workers?

How about random drug testing for ALL government workers.....including elected officials?

64 posted on 03/18/2017 7:48:32 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: pepsionice

They aren’t tested? They doesn’t make sense. If anyone needs to be sober and drug free, it’s them.


65 posted on 03/18/2017 7:57:12 AM PDT by JerseyDvl (PRESIDENT TRUMP trumps hate and racism! Put some ice on it Hitlery ;-)
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To: cba123

Are there any American jobs in Vietnam?


66 posted on 03/18/2017 8:09:36 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: conservative98
At one time pot may have been a natural substance, but not anymore

It's been professionally cultivated for at least a generation to optimize the potency and intoxicating effects that make the Maui Wowie of the 1970s look like tea leaves

The latest strains of cannabis are increasingly strong, serious and potentially dangerous drugs

67 posted on 03/18/2017 8:16:55 AM PDT by rdcbn (.... when Poets buy guns, tourist season is over ...)
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To: cba123

Can’t take one who starts a post with “just saying” seriously.


68 posted on 03/18/2017 8:23:54 AM PDT by pghoilman (Earth First. We'll drill the rest of the galaxy later.)
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To: CorporateStepsister

Good.


70 posted on 03/18/2017 8:43:33 AM PDT by Amish with an attitude
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To: CorporateStepsister

Good!


71 posted on 03/18/2017 8:54:40 AM PDT by luvie (Be still and know that I Am GOD.....Psalm 46:10)
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To: thoughtomator
...Check out the Florida experience - $100 million spent on drug testing, almost zero saved on benefits not distributed as a result....

Without a link to a reputable source this is an assertion, but not proof.

The total population of Florida ia ~19 million. If half is of working age, and there is 8% unemployment, that is 760,000 unemployed people. Weekly maximum unemployment comp in Florida is $275. If we take $200 as an average payment, that would be an annual payment of $7.9 billion.

The $100 million you claim for a cost is 1.3% of the annual payments. We only have to catch 1.3% of the recipients taking drugs to justify the cost.

Are you really claiming that 98.7% of the unemployed can pass a drug test?

My personal observation in Oregon is that no more than 20 to 30% of the unemployed around here could pass a drug test.

Even if the program does not pay for itself, it is effective in combating the moral rot that drugs cause in our society.

72 posted on 03/18/2017 9:10:30 AM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: CurlyDave

The “moral” argument is a farce. The real drug problem this country has is in legal prescription drugs, much of which the taxpayer pays for.

That’s where real savings - moral and fiscal - are to be had. If the moral claim is at all serious, that is what we need to be working on, not some marginal percentage of welfare recipients. Just bringing our per capita pharma spending down to OECD average https://data.oecd.org/healthres/pharmaceutical-spending.htm would be $200 billion in welfare payments saved, and it would do so specifically by curtailing curtailing drug abuse.


73 posted on 03/18/2017 9:49:56 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Purple: the color of sedition)
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To: CorporateStepsister

Logic shines


74 posted on 03/18/2017 9:59:54 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: lgjhn23
If I have to take a drug test in order to be employed (and pay taxes), they certainly can be drug-tested to take my hard-earned tax money for their welfare.

I have to submit random drug test. It's discrimination against working folks when the leeches get a pass.

75 posted on 03/18/2017 10:17:42 AM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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To: abbastanza

Yeah. Your money for SS was kept in that famous lock box. It’s practically an entitlement. Employers can also monitor your email, btw, for those comparing govt benefits to employment. Unemployment benefits eventually run out. It’s temporary assistance. I’m not in favor of growing the surveillance state and fattening the consulting class.


76 posted on 03/18/2017 10:41:48 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them.)
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To: Bratch

“My primary caregiver had prescribe another BP medicine because of side effects. It gave me a constant dry cough”

I’ve had a cough forever. Maybe that’s it.


77 posted on 03/18/2017 10:52:39 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: CorporateStepsister

I’m curious how this will work with those who use medical marijuana ? The legalization of pot is not uniform to testing methods. Seriously. alcohol clears the system in a day. However one could use it once every few weeks or whenever and it will stay in their system.

There should be away to find out if people are acutely high from pot as they do with alcohol if it is legal in their state.


78 posted on 03/18/2017 10:55:04 AM PDT by HollyB
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To: virgil

Plus, those retired have put in to the system. It is not a freebee. Personally, I am anti- drug. But, could care less about those who use recreational or medicinal marijuana.


79 posted on 03/18/2017 10:57:58 AM PDT by HollyB
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To: HollyB
But, could care less about those who use recreational or medicinal marijuana.

Fine and dandy as long as the get zero public welfare and unemployment. Test 'em. Do it!

80 posted on 03/18/2017 11:02:03 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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