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rurallib

(62,411 posts)
3. if so anyone getting a buck from the gummint needs to pee for pay
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 10:19 PM
Feb 2012

like governors, legislators, Grover Norquist, lobbyists etc.

RKP5637

(67,107 posts)
4. Frankly, congress, as well as presidential hopefuls should be drug tested.
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 10:29 PM
Feb 2012

Many of them are a bit bizarre. And, in a public venue, can and do, do a lot of harm.

Hugabear

(10,340 posts)
5. Corporations are now people, correct?
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 10:36 PM
Feb 2012

How about drug testing for corporate CEOs who get government subsidies, bailouts, and tax incentives.

 

Lionessa

(3,894 posts)
7. Since FL has proven it's nothing but a waste of taxpayers' dollars and he's supposed to be a Repub..
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 11:26 PM
Feb 2012

But we need to be sure to remind/point out to all the wingers we know that this isn't small gov't, and it isn't useful, and it causes state and federal budgets issues/deficits because of its complete waste of taxpayer money.

Did I say, it's a complete waste of taxes? Yep, and I'll keep saying it, because that's the only financial/economic word they know, and they are claiming this is an economic decision to get rid of welfare waste...... This would be the waste. Did I just say that? Let me say it again and again. Oh, wait, ya'll are the choir, okay off to enemy camps to spread the word.

Yes, I'm feeling temporarily goofy, got to blow off some anxiety somehow and silly seems better than anything else. My apologies.

 

unkachuck

(6,295 posts)
9. "...ANYONE who's getting Government benefits?!?"
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 11:38 PM
Feb 2012

....does slick-willard, the rich wall-street Mormon, include tax breaks for the rich 'government benefits'?....if so, we can start with him....

....there's something not quite 'right', about that man....

 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
10. It's Not About Saving Money It's About Sadistic Abuse.
Sat Feb 11, 2012, 01:20 AM
Feb 2012

Drug testing is about punishing someone who is desperate because you can do it with impunity. It is a form of sadism. Colorado just had a GOP pee cup bill pass out of committee today. Now the GOP is proposing mandatory voluntary work for unemployment recipients.

This crap won't stop until one of these bastards is confronted to his or her damned face. They don't fear the publlc or the people they abuse. They can just go to their gated community or hide behind their private security guards when they have a meeting or meet in some secret location with their filthy rich donors while they plot how they can abuse their constituency more effectively.

They won't quit until they are forced to or are voted out. And if you openly dissent and demonstrate they will just have the cops beat you senseless or gas you.

 

YOHABLO

(7,358 posts)
12. Romney Clueless
Sat Feb 11, 2012, 01:52 AM
Feb 2012

It's not so much that he said "people who receive government benefits", it's that he's so clueless about government in general. He probably forgot, maybe, about all the beneficiaries who receive government benefits, including the U.S. congress. He's an idiot.

ThoughtCriminal

(14,047 posts)
13. Just once I'd like to see a member of the press ask
Sat Feb 11, 2012, 04:46 PM
Feb 2012

Does that include military veterans?

(let me side step that while we check with the focus groups)

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
15. Pleasure is streng verboten, whether from sex or drugs
Sat Feb 11, 2012, 09:45 PM
Feb 2012

It's the puritanical mentality. Sex is for procreation only. Drug use is primarily outlawed because it might happen to be fun and we can't allow that.

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