Sorry....I didn't identify properly...my bad. (Reply #48)

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

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Fri Mar 1, 2013, 08:56 AM

FarPoint (10,797 posts)

48. Sorry....I didn't identify properly...my bad.

I want the politicians tested if they want to test welfare recipients.

The old say, " Whats good for the goose is good for the gander".

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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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