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Your link with the ACLU (notorious Leftists) numbers are bogus.

Sure.
Florida's four-month drug-testing run in 2011 yielded 108 negative drug tests, according to Department of Children and Families data. Only 2.6 percent of applicants who took the test failed, though supporters of the law say that does not account for people who walked away from the application process because they were on drugs.

Continuing on:
Obviously taking 108 dope fiends off welfare will save tons more money than 46K.

You know what? You're right. It wasn't $46k.

It was a lot more than that.
The pass rate was 96.3 percent, leaving the state to pay more than $100,000 to adults who paid for the test and passed. The average time an adult receives TANF is four and a half months, said DCF spokesman Joe Follick.
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Expecting people to work for their money isn't controlling them. Expecting people to surrender their rights under the 4th Amendment is, especially to safeguard against a threat that doesn't exist.

In the meantime, this whole mess is going through the courts (where it will lose), which will cost me, the taxpayer, even more.

All in the name of... what, exactly? Protecting us from 'dope fiends?'

Because I'll be honest, it's not potheads in the neighborhood I'm worried about. It's meth addicts blowing themselves up next door.

And meth users can skate past urine tests a whole lot easier than potheads can.

But in my experience, meth addicts won't be the ones going on unemployment while they look for new jobs; they'll rob you at knifepoint to get money to pay for their supplies.

So we have a system that is:

Arguably unconstitutional.
Gives the government yet another excuse to nose around in people's lives.
A waste of money.
A waste of time.
And it ignores the actual dangerous people in favor of going after the low-hanging fruit.

It's a great system, if you're big on authoritarianism.

So?
46K + 100K is still only 146K. Removing 108 druggies from welfare would still save much more than that.
Unless you are saying drug abusing losers only go on welfare for a month.
And then there is this:

Florida's four-month drug-testing run in 2011 yielded 108 negative drug tests, according to Department of Children and Families data. Only 2.6 percent of applicants who took the test failed, though supporters of the law say that does not account for people who walked away from the application process because they were on drugs.

Constitutionally, drug testing is nothing new. Fifteen years ago when I worked construction in NYC, I was required to be drug tested or I could not work. I had no problem with that.

You can spare me your personal experiences. Your desperation for welfare, drug testing and quoting the sickening Leftist ACLU is not painting you as someone who has interesting insight on the topic, to be quite frank about it.