Florida Senate panel approves plan to drug test welfare recipients

[upstatecajun]

A bill to mandate drug tests for welfare recipients was unanimously approved by a Florida Senate panel earlier this week, putting the proposal one step closer to coming up for a full Senate vote of approval.

The legislation, S.B. 556, would also require that welfare applicants pay for their own drug test before they can be approved for any state assistance.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/24/florida-senate-panel-approves-plan-to-drug-test-welfare-recipients/








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[joeybee12]

1. I say we drug test all corporations looking for hand-outs...nt

[DenverDad]

2. So much for "limited government".

:shrug:

[BlueIris]

3. This plus quarterly drug testing of public employees in FL.

Gross.

[DefenseLawyer]

4. That's insane on so many levels.

So if a person is so poor they can't afford to pay for the drug test, they are not eligible to get assistance for being poor? Oh wait, that's the ultimate goal. Nevermind.

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[csziggy]

6. How much did drug testing firms donate to the Republicans last election cycle?

It must have been a WHOLE lot of money because this legislature is really trying to pour our limited state money into the drug testing companies' pockets!

[bluerum]

7. Oh yeah. That will save a bundle.

Idiots.

[JoePhilly]

8. Make every member who votes for it and their family subject to the same law.

[Hugabear]

9. And yet Gov. Scott still refuses to clamp down on pill mills

Apparently smoking pot is much, much worse than getting hooked on oxy.