Georgia Republicans Push Bill To Require Random Drug Tests of the Unemployed..

[lib2DaBone]

http://wdef.com/news/georgia_republicans_push_bill_to_require_random_drug_test_for_the_unemployed/03/2010

The bill would impose random drug tests on anyone who gets public assistance.
That includes unemployment benefits and food stamps.
If you flunk the test.. you don't get your money.
The republican sponsors say they are doing it for the taxpayers.

St. Rep. Michael Harden\(R) Georgia
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A local TV station in Florida says that $20-an-hour jobs in Georgia are going begging because no one can pass a drug test.

Where are these jobs? $20-an-hour...? Man, my car is loaded and I'm on the way to Atlanta... !

[rcrush]

1. So they dont want to fund unemployment but they are willing to pay for massive drug tests?

Sense

[Arctic Dave]

2. How does one deny a person benefits that they paid into?

[KansDem]

3. South Carolina considered requiring drug tests of anyone running for office...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — People filing for public office would also have to submit to drug testing if legislators concerned about the fallout of former state Treasurer Thomas Ravenel's admission of cocaine use of have their way.

Senate Republican Leader Harvey Peeler filed his bill a day after news broke that Ravenel had been indicted on a federal cocaine conspiracy charge. The June indictment came just six months after the Republican Charleston real estate developer took office. He has since pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing.

"The reason I introduced this bill was in response to my constituents' outcry over our state treasurer and his situation," said Peeler, R-Gaffney, who took a drug test himself to get a commercial drivers' license. "It just makes sense to me that elected officials must first pass the drug test."

"What's good for one man should be good for the next man," Freddie William, 60, said as he sold art on a Columbia street corner. "If it's required for me to take a drug test, why shouldn't a man in a public office?"

Ravenel's indictment surprised people like Bobbie Futch, 61, who works at a Columbia music store. "I thought he was such an up and coming guy."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,328380,00.html">FOX, yeah, I know...

It didn't go...

[wilt the stilt]

9. were number 1 in stupidity

this from Gwinnett county. "We gotta get out of this place if it's the last thing we ever do" Eric Burden

[Grand Taurean]

4. Unemployment insurance is an earned benifit.

You have earned it!
Bastard pigs! :argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh:

[KamaAina]

5. And food stamps are a Federal program.

Not that an Administration whose No. 2 guy is a four-star drug warrior would have too much of a problem with that. :eyes:

[warm regards]

11. You didn't just earn it--you paid for it.

[leeroysphitz]

6. Fucking Georgia. Are they in a contest with Texas to see which state can be more obnoxious? n/t

[LiberalFighter]

7. How much will it cost for the testing? Problaby more than they would save.

[Newsjock]

8. They will require the unemployed to pay for the tests. Really.

From the story:

But Georgia won't pay for the drug tests. The unemployed will have to pay for the test.. whether they pass it or not.

[depakid]

10. If it's petty, mean spitited and self-destructive to the economy watch a Southern State do it

As the US declines further an further into third world status, the South will lead the way.

[Subdivisions]

12. Everybody is guilty until proven innocent in Georgia. n/t