What these bills are all about is convincing people (Reply #30)

In the discussion thread: Maine Democrat submits bill to drug-test welfare recipients [View all]

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 10:56 PM

30. What these bills are all about is convincing people

that anyone needing assistance is just a drug-abusing loser, dehumanizing them so it's easier to pull the plug and let people starve on the street. After all, if they weren't abusing drugs (even if they aren't, which is more likely the case), they would not be in that situation. Not sure what they plan to do with all of those starving kids.

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73 replies	Author	Time	Post
Maine Democrat submits bill to drug-test welfare recipients [View all]	Maine-ah	Feb 2013	OP
Ditto WTF!	elleng	Feb 2013	#1
Fucking idiot.	bluedigger	Feb 2013	#2
Like everyone else is? Since when is ME testing everyone?	MADem	Feb 2013	#22
Well how about them? They are getting paid by the citizens. They are government employees.	southernyankeebelle	Feb 2013	#29
Absolutely!	FarPoint	Mar 2013	#33
Yep. However, it really is a waste of money. FL has done it and come to find out it	southernyankeebelle	Mar 2013	#47
Sorry....I didn't identify properly...my bad.	FarPoint	Mar 2013	#48
It's ok. Another old saying "A Pig can't smell it's own hole". Republicans are pigs.	southernyankeebelle	Mar 2013	#50
Hey, now!	IrishAyes	Mar 2013	#67
Actually I love pigs. In Germany pigs are good luck. I collect them. I just thought	southernyankeebelle	Mar 2013	#71
This message was self-deleted by its author	sammy27932003	Mar 2013	#73
Random drug testing should be imposed	AnotherMcIntosh	Feb 2013	#3
Random hell!	bluedigger	Feb 2013	#5
OK. I'm in with that.	AnotherMcIntosh	Feb 2013	#10
And test for alcohol!!!	Kelvin Mace	Feb 2013	#14
LOL!	bluedigger	Feb 2013	#17
Allen's makes a coffee brandy? I never knew!	MADem	Feb 2013	#23
You have no idea...	bluedigger	Feb 2013	#24
How could I have missed this? I need to get out more!	MADem	Feb 2013	#25
Just stop at the State liquor store on 95 in NH.	bluedigger	Feb 2013	#28
I pass that store all the time when I go up to northern ME...	MADem	Mar 2013	#72
Brandy	IrishAyes	Mar 2013	#68
they like it mixed with 1/2 & 1/2 or milk.	Maine-ah	Feb 2013	#32
Sort of like a downscale Baileys!	MADem	Mar 2013	#36
Blender it with some cheap vanilla ice cream	Mopar151	Mar 2013	#39
With a stiff penalty to booth	roxy1234	Mar 2013	#56
Fuck her	MotherPetrie	Feb 2013	#4
Or, as Republicans call it...	LTR	Feb 2013	#6
And this is a DEMOCRAT?	RT_Fanatic	Feb 2013	#7
Rec for wider exposure. "everybody else" is drug tested? WTF?	uppityperson	Feb 2013	#8
They don't care because it was never about saving money . . .	markpkessinger	Feb 2013	#12
Also about MAKING money for whoever owns the firm responsible for testing...	Blue_Tires	Mar 2013	#57
"Also about MAKING money for whoever owns the firm ..." That seems to be right.	AnotherMcIntosh	Mar 2013	#59
IIRC, this was tried in Florida and the cost of the testing	Arkansas Granny	Feb 2013	#9
Fuck the Deficits!! We will spare NO expense	99th_Monkey	Feb 2013	#11
Not only that	Kelvin Mace	Feb 2013	#15
The author of that Huffington Post article over-stated what the 11th Circuit did.	AnotherMcIntosh	Mar 2013	#60
How to respond: "I'll take a drug test if you'll take an IQ test."	Comrade Grumpy	Feb 2013	#13
Random drug testing violates the Fourth Amendment.	Comrade Grumpy	Feb 2013	#16
what if your boss is the gov't? ie. the military.	littlewolf	Feb 2013	#18
The civilian Federal government doesn't really drug test.	bluedigger	Feb 2013	#31
Primary them. nt	onehandle	Feb 2013	#19
we can't! you don't understand. try and be sensible for gawds sake!!1	frylock	Feb 2013	#26
but being back on subject:	littlewolf	Feb 2013	#20
I would think	timdog44	Feb 2013	#21
Great point! I suggest she fill her pee cup in public so we can tell if it's really hers, too.	freshwest	Mar 2013	#44
Some lawmaker in Kansas	timdog44	Mar 2013	#45
They're really arguing over disrespecting humans and treating them as animals.	freshwest	Mar 2013	#61
Sorry about the headache. Very aggravating.	timdog44	Mar 2013	#62
Thanks. And agree with you on all your points.	freshwest	Mar 2013	#63
Thank you	IrishAyes	Mar 2013	#69
Thank you. Today is a better day. I hope that people will reason this out with open minds.	freshwest	Mar 2013	#70
that dime is getting thinner and thinner	frylock	Feb 2013	#27
What these bills are all about is convincing people	nobodyspecial	Feb 2013	#30
Damn it, it's poverty that CAUSES the drug use, not the other way around.	Ken Burch	Mar 2013	#34
what IS this garbage???	Skittles	Mar 2013	#35
Drug testing for ANYONE is a gross violation of Constitutional rights	Proletariatprincess	Mar 2013	#37
Every study has shown that welfare recipients have lower incidences of drug use	Fearless	Mar 2013	#38
Linky?	1983law	Mar 2013	#40
Here you go.	PotatoChip	Mar 2013	#53
Rock on	1983law	Mar 2013	#65
Despicable	davidthegnome	Mar 2013	#41
I don't think the right reframed it better. The US always had a powerful puritanical streak.	Selatius	Mar 2013	#42
Well	Bigredhunk	Mar 2013	#43
This is nonsense, and it is isn't gonna fly.	RBInMaine	Mar 2013	#46
I hope a REAL Dem. primaries her, come the spring of 2014.	PotatoChip	Mar 2013	#54
She actually has been pretty progressive on most things, but this is just weird.	RBInMaine	Mar 2013	#64
So the "Democrat" representing Ed Muskie's hometown is a co-sponsor? WTF indeed.	Scuba	Mar 2013	#49
Let's drug test the politicians first! They, are the ones that can cause real harm to millions of	RKP5637	Mar 2013	#51
Goodness!	Turbineguy	Mar 2013	#52
What a damn waste of money, too.	mainer	Mar 2013	#55
Those who test positive	They_Live	Mar 2013	#58
Sickening	IrishAyes	Mar 2013	#66

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