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Illinois May Require Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients
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| February 2, 2011
| Tamara L. Morris
Posted on 02/02/2011 4:52:51 PM PST by Angelus
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To: microgood
My real point was why not an ID to vote?
The article is about drug testing, so I went with that.
So do you consider verifying the eligibility of a voter to be an infringement of freedom?
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posted on
02/02/2011 5:28:52 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
So do you consider verifying the eligibility of a voter to be an infringement of freedom?
Not at all. The government has a right to know where you live and who you are if you want to vote.
I was mainly speaking to the Fourth Amendment, or what is left of it.
To: microgood
I was mainly speaking to the Fourth Amendment, or what is left of it. The IRS alone pretty much did away with that.
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posted on
02/02/2011 5:37:03 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
To: Angelus
House Bill 0011 was introduced Jan. 12 by Rep. Jim Sacia (R-Freeport) and provides for the Department of Human Services to enact a "pilot program" for drug testing as a condition of eligibility for TANF. He can introduce it until he's blue in the face. It still has to pass a rat House, rat Senate and be signed into law by a rat Governor.
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posted on
02/02/2011 5:38:49 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
(nk too.<p>)
To: Angelus
It "Sounds" good, BUT it smells of "letting the camel get his nose under the tent"...
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posted on
02/02/2011 5:40:40 PM PST
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
To: Angelus
One could only hope ALL States pass 2 pieces of Legislation:
1) Mandatory Drug testing for ALL Public Assistance
2) Mandatory Photo ID for Voting, AND Public Assistance, including PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP.
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posted on
02/02/2011 5:46:09 PM PST
by
traditional1
("Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
To: traditional1
If someone is so poor they need assistance, where do they get the $ for drugs? My guess is they trade their EBT cards for cash, which goes for all kinds of goodies, like booze, strip clubs, gambling casinos, etc.
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posted on
02/02/2011 7:17:21 PM PST
by
boop
("Let's just say they'll be satisfied with LESS"... Ming the Merciless)
To: PissAndVinegar
DING! DING! DING! Today’s winner.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
This would not fly — it would catch too many big wigs.
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posted on
02/02/2011 11:40:41 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: boop
what, you never heard of the illinois subsidized dope program?
just kidding
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posted on
02/02/2011 11:41:50 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: Aevery_Freeman
Lol!
“The Happy Breed”
Of course they don’t need drugs anymore. All they need do is make sure the subject has an i-Pod and Comcast...
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posted on
02/03/2011 12:32:20 AM PST
by
djf
(Touch my junk and I'll break yur mug!!!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
“How about drug-testing to get to vote?
: )”
Or buy a gun? Collect Social Security? Get married? etc. Once it starts - where does it end?
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posted on
02/03/2011 12:52:19 AM PST
by
PeteCat
To: PeteCat
Tying outright welfare to that doesn’t sound so unreasonable. One could argue about Social Security at least as the pension supplement it was conceived to be rather than the Ponzi welfare fiasco it has evolved into, because they sure didn’t test you before taking the FICA tax.
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posted on
02/03/2011 12:56:57 AM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: Aevery_Freeman
Being that it’s Illinois...I would say that they are on drugs. Good drugs!
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posted on
02/03/2011 4:49:15 AM PST
by
Howie66
(I can see November (2012) from my house.)
To: boop
"y guess is they trade their EBT cards for cash, which goes for all kinds of goodies, like booze, strip clubs, gambling casinos, etc."There is NO proof required to claim you're poor....you just do "cash" business, and there's no paper trail at all.
Likewise, convienience stores, groceries, etc. in the inner-cities have a "going-rate" for food stamp exchange for cash, and then the cash goes to the bling, crack, and tattoo parlor dealers, etc.
This is BLATANT, and four generations of certain ethnic groups have developed this as a "way of life"....except for those who also deal drugs on the side, to supplement their income, or steal cars, and whatever else they can steal to get added income in the black market deals for items.
Reality of the inner-city/Democrat-run cesspools is ALWAYS ignored by the State Run Media, and there are inner-city areas that even the police are afraid to enter......
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posted on
02/03/2011 5:51:55 AM PST
by
traditional1
("Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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