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In reply to the discussion: Congresswoman Who Used To Receive Welfare Wants To Drug Test Rich People Who Get Tax Breaks [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)these supers-predators, thugs really, aka Congresspeople, started using the laws to waste and steal people's money. They are the ones performing your political theater.
Turns out people on food stamps get high on illegal drugs less often, because they have no money. The people who have the money are the ones getting high. But if we assume, incorrectly, that black folk are the problem, aim the laws at particular demographics, and associate them with food stamps, we can destroy a bunch of lives for profit and change the public perception of reality, even make us afraid of each other.
This is purposeful. By design. Follow the money- who got rich?
It is a lie and political theater to tell people we need to spend taxpayer funds to check people who we know - statistically, mathematically, with plenty of data in the bank - don't do the drugs you are looking for as often as people who are recipients of corporate tax incentives. They and their employees will do more illegal drugs than people with food stamps.
If we are honest, and NOT acting for the benefit of just a few, then we must test the corporations and their employees who are benefits of this money, which we know is being received in furtherance of illegal activity - statistically, mathematically, with plenty of data in the bank. We can make a paper trail. The President can staff the FBI with forensic accountants to investigate and return with facts. It is within his written powers to do so. If we are not acting, there are no really good excuses.
If we want to test people who are doing drugs, we HAVE to test people who have money. There is a positive correlation with how much money you have and how much you spend on illegal drugs. If we want data on who is doing them, the only sane thing to be doing is to be testing the people with money.
It we are not doing that, and we are not, what is happening today is just kabuki,