Comments on: Senate Democrats don’t use advantage to kill drug testing bill

By: wayne goodman

wayne goodman — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:40:21 +0000

4.These drug test programs in other states have cost
the taxpayers more than they have saved.

Comment by Rob Thommins — February 2, 2013 @ 9:54 am

Exactly! In every state that has gone this route, the cost of the testing program has exceeded the savings in reduced benefits paid and the testing programs have shown that the instance of drug use among welfare and food stamp recipients is LOWER than it is among the general population. And the net effect of the program has been to take away food from children whose diets are already deficient.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:01:53 +0000

What a bunch of friggen busybodies the RWnuts are. Get your nose out of everyone else’s business and worry about your own maybe. Yet another expensive solution in search of a problem.

By: Sandi Saunders

Sandi Saunders — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:59:24 +0000

Until we stop producing human beings incapable of taking care of themselves and have the jobs and opportunity for all able bodied/minded people to gain employment, kicking people to the streets, for whatever reason you care to use, will have only detrimental effects on our society. This is not going to help anyone, not them and not us.

If you discard the disabled and the elderly, the number of people you believe are “scamming” you for those plush benefits is a drop in the bucket of what we give to corporations and the high class parasites in this nation.

“America’s Four Socioeconomic Classes
1. Parasitic financial Aristocracy (creates no value, skims national surplus)
2. High value creation (employed, heavily taxed)
3. Low value creation (employed/informal economy, lightly taxed)
4. No value creation (unemployed, dependent)

…If the wealthy parasitically skimmed their wealth, they are in effect depriving the economy of capital that could have been productively invested elsewhere. I

…What we need to consider is what happens as the parasitic and dependent classes take an ever-larger share of the national surplus while the classes creating most of the value decline in size and political influence.”

http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2013/01/americas-four-socioeconomic-classes.html

By: belle

belle — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:18:32 +0000

There needs to be a limit on the length for welfare. They need to re-qualify every (x) amount of months. Food benefits should be limited to certain foods (fresh fruit, fresh veggies, some meat, eggs, cheese, grains, beans, peanut butter, etc).Doing so will also contribute to better focus in school for children, instead of all the cheap sugar/fat/carb filled junk that is the currently what they can get more for their buck. There should be an incentive program for those that remove themselves for an extended period of time. This is a mindset that needs reform, just as much as it is a mismanaged government program. This is not the Entitlement Generation for nothing. As with almost anything, I think the private sector could do a lot more than the government. Communities know their people better than the federal government. Working together to assist and find this guy work or that woman work, or meals for that family or a shelter for that one, is faster and more efficient than going and signing up and knowing where your food and rent money is coming from. The psychological aspect of panic and providing for yourself and your family should drive any person, not the benefits office.

By: Star Womanspirit

Star Womanspirit — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 19:10:58 +0000

The democrats are plain awful…..UNTIL the banksters and corporate CEO’s AND our Congressional members have to be drug tested when they take government funds then and only then should others be drug tested!!!

By: Larry H

Larry H — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:45:40 +0000

ALL welfare programs should have this qualifier. If they do not submit to drug tests or fail a drug test, no welfare for you!

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:45:32 +0000

With thinking like this the government should demand drug testing for any person who gets a tax deduction or tax break. These people get a break and should have to prove they don’t do drugs to get it. They too are getting money back from the government using the logic that closing tax loopholes is a tax increase.

drug test people for drivers license too while your at it……

By: Eddie

Eddie — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:24:22 +0000

I agree with Larry. We buy their groceries and pay their rent and they spend their low wages on crack and Ganga.

By: gary

gary — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 13:01:14 +0000

That should be called the Starve or Steal Bill

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 12:54:06 +0000

terrible idea….perhaps put other limitations on it such as time.