GA drug testing bill could get interesting

[TalkingDog]

http://onlineathens.com/opinion/2012-01-08/editorial-drug-testing-bill-could-get-interesting

If it gets a serious hearing in the state legislative session that begins today, a bill filed by a Democratic state legislator in the Republican-dominated Georgia General Assembly could have some interesting implications for the state’s open records laws.

Clearly a political response to legislative proposals filed in both the state House and state Senate that would subject applicants for public assistance to drug testing, a bill filed by Atlanta Democrat Scott Holcomb would subject legislators to drug testing.

Holcomb’s bill should, then, get a serious hearing, insofar as it would show that lawmakers — who, like welfare recipients, are the recipients of taxpayers’ dollars — are willing to subject themselves to the same conditions under which they’d disburse taxpayers’ dollars to other citizens of this state.

[Politicalboi]

1. We need to do hair testing with this bunch

So we can go back a few months and see how the other half lived.

[glowing]

2. Would be very telling who was afraid of this bill?

Isn't the argument, if you don't have anything to hide, why object to it? Clearly, politicians make more money and receive more benefits than the average person who is so poor that they qualify by law to receive Food Stamps and Medicaid...