AZGrizFan wrote:Still waiting for an explanation as to how this puts "an unfair burden on the poor".
Why? Because they won't pass the test and not get their money and get pissed off and not continue voting for the donks who are giving them their heroin in the form of welfare checks?
First, Dick the Bruiser, list your source.
Democrats work hard too and ain't interested in giving anyone a free pass. We just have compassion and empathy for the poor.
Democrats were split on drug-testing of welfare recipients, with 49 percent disapproving and 50 percent approving. But 90 percent of Republicans endorsed the law, with independent voters supporting it by a 75-24 percent margin.
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Second, they're targeting the poor and thus further vilifying them. And that's ultimately what this is about:
Feeding a perverse and ever-present need in conks to blame all of society's ills on niggers, mexicans and the poor.
You're even willing go against your own alleged principals of limited government and fiscal conservatism to do it. The data does not warrant the need:
Florida's neophyte Republican governor, tea-party-friendly Rick Scott, signed a bill back in June requiring the state's welfare recipients to undergo drug-testing urinalysis before collecting their monthly assistance check of around $241-to-$303. The measure, he said, would save taxpayer money by barring drug addicts from getting the dole. "Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare," he said.
Florida's welfare recipients are proving that Scott's assumption wasn't worth a warm bucket of pee. Now, the state is effectively being forced to pay for 11.5 gallons of welfare applicants' drug-free urine every month, to the tune of around $34,000.
Of the 1,000 or so recipients who have taken the required drug tests (at their own expense) since early July,
only 2 percent have tested positive for drugs, according to the Tampa Tribune. That's well below the national population's average, and it's so low that the testing plan—which was expected to cost $187 million by some analysts' estimates—could end up costing taxpayers even more in the long run.
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$30-35 bucks may not be alot to you, but it is to the poor. This is an unfair burden.
In Florida, the average TANF household payment is $253-a-month and the average time receiving benefits is just under five months. The new law required that applicants pay for their own drug tests -- with fees of $30-$35 -- and said they would be reimbursed by the state when the applicants pass.
Z, how bout we drug test your crowd? White collar welfare fucks with drinking, nicotine and cocaine problems?
Do your research on the poor, Z. Reagan was wrong.
They ain't monsters, they're single women with children who have been abandoned by irresponsible men.
...while wearing a dunce cap and reciting liberal political slogans......
