ways to get food... Meals at school is one of them... Last spring the budget folks shifted food dollars from those dealing with food insecurities and gave it to the schools... A family of four here in Wisconsin gets around 350 dollars a month... And now in Florida, Rick Scott is drug testing them for food...I'm watching the new drug laws as they get ready to launch. Here is one of Rick Scotts..."Scott is the flip side of journalism's old motto. He wants to comfort the comfortable, and afflict the afflicted.
Scott also defended his new drug-testing program for certain welfare recipients, even though only 2.5 percent are flunking. "That's out of the people that are deciding to take the test," Scott said.
He said a truer measure of effectiveness is the number who don't bother applying for benefits for fear of failing (hard to gauge so far), and the number who haven't shown up for drug tests after applying (about 7 percent)."
The war on drugs is a war on the poor and the ill...
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