Posted on 06/02/2015 5:47:35 PM PDT by concernedcitizen76
While most Americans like the idea of drug testing for welfare recipients, they LOVE the idea of drug testing for members of Congress.
According to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll, 64 percent of Americans favor requiring welfare recipients to submit to random drug testing -- a measure pushed by Republican lawmakers in recent years -- while 18 percent oppose it. But an even stronger majority said they're in favor of random drug testing for members of Congress, by a 78 percent to 7 percent margin. Sixty-two percent said they "strongly" favor drug testing for congressional lawmakers, compared to only 51 percent who said the same of welfare recipients.
The House of Representatives passed legislation this year that would allow states to require food stamp recipients to pee in cups to prove they're not on drugs. In 2012, Republicans pushed for drug testing of people seeking unemployment insurance benefits when they lose their jobs. At the state level, GOP lawmakers across the country have sought drug testing for an array of safety net programs.
While drug testing for both welfare recipients and lawmakers received support across party lines in the new poll, the congressional proposal was the one more likely to bring Americans together. Eighty-six percent of Republicans, 77 percent of Democrats and 75 percent of independents said they want drug testing for members of Congress.
Republicans felt especially strongly about drug testing of welfare recipients, with 87 percent favoring it and only 9 percent opposed. Among Democrats, 50 percent favored and 28 percent opposed drug testing of welfare recipients, while independents were in favor by a 64 percent to 16 percent margin.
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Isn't it about time to treat the federal political class and their staff as criminals? After all, they are responsible for crushing the people with unconstitutional, immoral and heinous laws and regulations from which they exempt themselves or are otherwise immune. The federal political class is the most dangerous class of criminals in these United States. Polls tell that fear and distrust of the federal government by Americans is at an all time high and that Americans view governmennt as the nation's #1 problem. The political class is addicted to power which they use against the people they are supposed to serve. Many of them appear to be out of touch with reality. Any connection to drug dependency and alcoholism? Why not then find out how many of them are on drugs, legal and illegal, andor have a drinking problem.
Baraq Mohammed Obama....aka Obie from Nairobi...alternately exhibits behaviors one ordinarily sees in cokeheads,...and heroin addicts.
Im pretty sure he’d flunk any drug test going..
well stated. they are dangerously close to becoming kings and princes.
Mikey-
That’s very interesting about his behavior.
“Obie from Nairobi.” Love it. lol!
He seems delusional lately.
I just want to make em pee in a cup. Drugs would probably HELP.
They’re all on the drug called “power”.
How would Nancy Pelosi pee into a cup? She misses the toilet half the time.
They used to call her “The Sprinkler Of The House”.
Let her stand in a bathtub and go. She’s used to that.
Not that I don't trust them of course.
I go further...waterboarding???
We need 24/7 body cams with audio on them continuously uploaded to the web.
Not to say Boehner is a lush, but his urine sample would likely have an olive in it.
CC
Doctor: “Go into the other room and pee in this cup.”
Patient: “Gee doc, I don’t think my aim’ s that good!”
The scariest thing would be that they all passed with flying colors.
I had to p** in a cup starting in Vietnam until I retired in 2011. Didn’t bother me a bit `cause I never did the illegal s***.
If I had to do it, then these lord high almighty muckymucks in Congress should do it. Government service is government service regardless of rank.
Not just Congress, but everyone who gets a government paycheck, including the president, his cabinet and anyone entering civil service. If that had been the case, we may have been spared the addicted Kenedy clan as well as Obama.
Word is that 0bama’s source flies in regularly from Hawaii.
Test for alcohol, too.
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