Posted on 10/24/2011 3:17:23 PM PDT by Carbonsteel
ORLANDO, Fla. — A federal judge temporarily blocked Florida’s new law that requires welfare applicants to pass a drug test before receiving the benefits on Monday, saying it may violate the Constitution’s ban on unreasonable searches and seizures.
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Can't let something like being a crack head from getting in the way of getting taxpayer dollars.
he can’t pass a pre-employment drug test. He also would likely qualify as disabled.
Yes people. it’s come to this.
As others have said CW 2 is coming. It’ll be short. We will win.
In locale after locale, common sense laws are being passed and then being overturned or blocked by the effing federal judiciary. Time for the states to tell district court judges to shove it. Past time for congress to start impeachment proceedings against these usurping black robed swine.
We must work to reduce welfare in this country -- not just accept it and try to make the recipients' lives miserable to compensate.
Yeah, well my side thought it’d be short at the last rodeo. Depends on who is on who’s side.
there is no search or siezure...
if you want the money, submit to drug testing
if I have to submit to testing to EARN the money, the least they can do is the same when TAKING the money
there is no search or siezure...
if you want the money, submit to drug testing
if I have to submit to testing to EARN the money, the least they can do is the same when TAKING the money
I disagree. Volunteering to go collect my money means you have to follow my rules. Don’t like it, leave my money on the table and get a job.
Sadly, it seems “activist jurisprudence” would hold that the public has a “duty” to subsidize receipients’ drug habits ! >PS
there is no search or siezure...
if you want the money, submit to drug testing
if I have to submit to testing to EARN the money, the least they can do is the same when TAKING the money
“We must work to reduce welfare in this country — not just accept it and try to make the recipients’ lives miserable to compensate.”
????? Let the worthless slug take all the dope he wants. Just not on MY nickel!!!!
Answer? Stop all welfare payments.
Answer? Stop all welfare payments.
I swear, if I ever get another dog, my dream is to teach him/her to read, then give him/her a list of Federal judges to bite.
Would you consider this similar to DUI checkpoints in being forced to submit to a test where no probable cause exists?
Interesting, so a judge considers drug testing for welfare to be a case of illegal search and seizure.
Would the judge be so kind to rule on the TSA who won’t let people get on a privately owned aircraft with drugs. The TSA assumes I am a criminal, then denies me my 2nd Amendment Rights by violating my 4th and 5th. If I were to fly from Dallas to Houston, TSA would still want to do a search without Probable Cause and without a warrant, a clear violation of the 10th and 14th Amendments.
My Rights to engage in contracts with a private company is routinely violated by the FedGov while there is yet no claim in the Constitution where a drug addict has free access to my wallet.
“A federal judge temporarily blocked Florida’s new law that requires welfare applicants to pass a drug test before receiving the benefits on Monday, saying it may violate the Constitution’s ban on unreasonable searches and seizures.”
You are getting money from taxpayers for NOTHING, and we cant demand that you be clean before you do?!?!?!
%#%^#&*@ trailer trash judge!
I think the testing was a good idea. I believe that initially, the testing cost ... but the study said that it cost less than the money saved to the recipients. They didn’t have any way to measure how many people just didn’t apply BECAUSE of the testing requirement and there were some that, for some reason, hadn’t been measured.
When a recipient takes the dollars and has a drug habit, it has a ripple effect. They aren’t responsible with the money. Their kids are usually running around being “raised” by the community. If they get foodstamps, they are also selling them for drugs...and hitting up food pantries, emptying THOSE out.
And you are enabling all of that.
Maybe there should be a compassion clause, though, where if someone needs the help and has an addiction...they can claim it and comply with treatment.
“In locale after locale, common sense laws are being passed and then being overturned or blocked by the effing federal judiciary. Time for the states to tell district court judges to shove it. Past time for congress to start impeachment proceedings against these usurping black robed swine.”
It is time for the states to call a Constitutional convention to add amendments limiting the power of the federal judiciary and the federal bureaucracy over the states. In addition there should be no laws passed by Congress requiring states to tax its citizens to support or supplement federal programs.
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