Out Of Work? You're A Drug Abuser
Senator aims to force unemployed to take drug tests
"Though the Clinton Administration passed a law years ago allowing states to test welfare recipients for drug abuse, one Republican senator wants to go farther: require drug tests of anyone who applies for government assistance.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) offered an amendment Tuesday that would require drug tests for those who seek welfare and unemployment benefits. States have the authority to enact drug testing requirements for their welfare programs under the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, signed into law by President Bill Clinton, but they are not mandated to conduct tests under current law.
"This amendment is a way to help people get off of drugs to become productive and healthy members of society, while ensuring that valuable taxpayer dollars aren't wasted," Hatch said of his proposal. "Too many Americans are locked into a life of a dangerous dependency not only on drugs, but the federal assistance that serves to enable their addiction."
We ought to force scumbags like hatch, every day, to pass through naked X ray scanners, take a urine test and get anal probed before getting into his plush office, that we paid for. Every day.
"Though the Clinton Administration passed a law years ago allowing states to test welfare recipients for drug abuse, one Republican senator wants to go farther: require drug tests of anyone who applies for government assistance.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) offered an amendment Tuesday that would require drug tests for those who seek welfare and unemployment benefits. States have the authority to enact drug testing requirements for their welfare programs under the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, signed into law by President Bill Clinton, but they are not mandated to conduct tests under current law.
"This amendment is a way to help people get off of drugs to become productive and healthy members of society, while ensuring that valuable taxpayer dollars aren't wasted," Hatch said of his proposal. "Too many Americans are locked into a life of a dangerous dependency not only on drugs, but the federal assistance that serves to enable their addiction."
We ought to force scumbags like hatch, every day, to pass through naked X ray scanners, take a urine test and get anal probed before getting into his plush office, that we paid for. Every day.
posted by nolocontendere at 7:14 PM
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Let's start by defining all government "employees" - whether hired, appointed, elected, or contracted - to undergo a required drug test at least once a month. The best part of this idea is that with drug tests' reliabilities in the 98% range, on average ten or eleven congressmen and senators will be found to be users every month, and summarily fired with complete loss of pension, healthcare, and any other benefits.
This is similar to my proposal a few years ago that, since "nuclear waste" was declared to be perfectly safe, instead of putting it in remote sparsely populated areas the dumps should be located across the street from the governors' houses in each state.
This idea, like all ideas proposed by these vampires and vultures, is completely lame and useless. If they really want to save tax-payer money, they need to take pay-cuts themselves (all congress-reps make over 100,000 per year) and END THE WAR ON DRUGS, period!
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