Maine Democrat submits bill to drug-test welfare recipients

[timdog44]

62. Sorry about the headache. Very aggravating.

But I don't think you are off course. So many of these things are so inter-related that it is hard to know how to end or whether to end fighting against the abuse. The studies I have seen actually show that the general population are bigger drug offenders (by todays laws) than are the poor. The poor really can't afford to do drugs, especially on a regular basis. And some times I don't fault if they do occasionally use, as it provides a temporary escape from their burdens.

Then there is the person in Florida who is governor whose only reason to do the drug testing is that he owns (actually he gave his wife the controlling interest) the company that does the testing and the places where the testing is done. So it is back to the almighty $ again. As an aside, I can't believe he was even allowed to run as governor after the Medicare fraud that the company he ran was convicted for and fined for.

There certainly are cases for drug testing, just as you mentioned. But you hear the one's, like Lindsey Lohan, who fail and nothing is ever done to them. $$$? again.

It may have been unflattering about her doing the testing in public, but would make it as humiliating as these poor people, being forced to be tested in order to receive their meager moneys.