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.
Blow-by-blow:
DCF’s own stats do indeed say that unemployment (not welfare) is drawn, on average, for a month.
I’m not desperate for welfare. I’ve never been on it.
I’m not desperate for drug testing. I’ve done it, since I still have to make rent; but I oppose it, since it strikes me as invasive and counter-productive and more than a little bit creepy.
I really don’t care what my boss does after he goes home from work. As long as he doesn’t screw up the business and I can count on a steady job, it doesn’t affect me, so I don’t care.
If someone’s showing up drunk or high and they can’t do their job, they’ll lose it.
If someone’s on time and reliable, whether or not they get drunk or high off the clock isn’t really the boss-man’s business.
But if you’re telling me that spending $100,000 in taxpayer money to test clean urine and then give it back is somehow fiscally responsible, I don’t know what to tell you.