You mean beer or Colt 45?
Posted on 05/06/2011 12:53:13 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
TALLAHASSEE -- Applying for welfare benefits in Florida? Soon you’ll need to get drug tested.
A measure requiring the tests passed the Senate on Thursday and is headed to Gov. Rick Scott, who called it one of his legislative priorities.
“It’s fair to taxpayers,” Scott said after the vote. “They’re paying the bill. And they’re often drug screened for their jobs. On top of that, it’s good for families. It creates another reason why people will think again before using drugs, which as you know is just a significant issue in our state.”
Scott already signed an executive order requiring random drug testing of state workers.
HB 353 requires all adult recipients of federal cash benefits — the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program — to pay for the tests, which are typically around $35. The screen would be for all controlled substances and applicants would have to disclose any legal prescriptions.
Recipients who test positive for drugs would lose their benefits for a year. If they fail a second time, they lose the benefits for three years. Parents who test positive must designate another adult to receive benefits on behalf of their children.
Those who pass would be reimbursed by having their benefits increased by the cost of the test.
“This is an effort to stop this cycle of drug abuse,” said Sen. Steve Oelrich, R-Gainesville, one of the sponsors, who added the requirement was similar to one that many employers make of workers.
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Not true. If the government searches everyone, for example at airport screening, or sobriety checkpoints it is permissible and has been upheld by the courts. You can refuse to be searched at airport screening points, but you will be denied boarding. You can refuse to be greeted at a sobriety checkpoint, but you will lose your driver's license.
You mean like the "no gun" rules for public assisted housing?
Welfare is NOT a constitutional right.
I haven’t heard anything about the bill here in Texas the last week or so, but hope our state does the same.
The way I understand it the test is voluntary, it means no test - no check. If somebody doesn’t want to take the test then simply that month they don’t get a welfare check. No 4th amendment problem there.
I’ve been laid off from the military-industrial complex where I’ve spent most of my 33 year career. Since about 1985 I had to submit to random drug testing just to have a job. I’m fine with that as drug users introduce many errors into their work and they have more accidents than non-drug users.
Since I’ve been laid off I thought I’d take advantage of the unemployment agencies’ free Microsoft certification program. (Not really free, thank you very much, taxpayers.) As a result I’ve been at the unemployment office every day. The unemployment office is also the welfare office and a bunch of other help-the-poor services, all rolled up into one office.
I’ve never seen so many worthless lumps of flesh in one place before. During the orientation session everybody has to go through, one young man was so high he suddenly freaked out and ran from the room.
The classroom I’m in is located on the sidewalk side of the building and has a long mirrored window. People aren’t allowed to use their cell phones inside, so they go outside and lean against the mirrored window to talk about drugs (buying, selling, using), cheating on unemployment and buying/selling/obtaining stolen goods. (My favorite; one guy tells somebody he was shooting a porn video. The entire class swiveled to look up and the lady behind me whispered, “Maybe he’s the cameraman.” ‘Cause he was FAT.)
That’s another thing; I’d say 85% of the unemployed I’ve seen are obese, as in 50-100 pounds overweight. One grossly obese woman tells somebody on her phone she was up until 4:00 am “killing the buzz.” As an employer I’d look at most of these tattooed, fat people…reeking with body language attitude and say, “Pass.”
Obama t-shirts and bumper stickers (and, I swear to God) tattoos are everywhere. Twice, there’s been a register-to-vote table set up in the lobby with some artsy, rich looking white woman I take to be a volunteer lambasting these folks that they need to get out there and vote for what they deserve.
You mean beer or Colt 45?
I read of one instance where TSA refused to let a person leave the airport and threatened charges for refusing to be searched.
No wonder my BIL’s commie NEA wife goes apoplectic when she hears Scott’s name. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside just to think about it.
I smell a whole new agency that will be setup to rehab these scum who fail the test. Psych tests, etc., and of course, it will stay the denial of benefits pending successful treatment.
You write the bill that in order to obtain the benefit you have to pass the test. Nobody is FORCING anyone to take a drug test. THAT would violate the constitution.
Just like nobody is FORCING you to drive. But...in order to drive (legally) you have to PASS a test (sight and driving). Same concept.
Colt 45 will give you a heck of buzz if you gun it down. Same with MD 20/20. College was so fun.
Another brushfire for the racist Holder to confront. He doesn’t have enough manpower or resources to extinguish them. States need to start more brushfires to overwhelm these commie pigs infesting Washington.
Will the Liberals who claim to care so much about the downtrodden see this as a compassionate move and the first step in getting these people some help?
Somehow I doubt it.
I suppose a question to ask before that would be, is it unreasonable to assume that illegal drug use causes unemployment? The 4th amendment is kind enough to throw in that “unreasonable” word for us.
I see a lot of potential problems here for fraud, corruption and abuse.
They should be allowed only to designate a blood relative of the children
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