Posted on 01/28/2011 11:00:19 PM PST by Duke C.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB Fox 41)--People who need help from the state could soon have to take a drug test to get that help. State Rep. Lonnie Napier of Lancaster introduced the House Bill 208. The bill would require random drug testing for adults who get food stamps, medicaid or other state assistance.
"I went on maternity leave when I had my daughter," says Irma Turner, who receives state assistance. Until she can get back on her feet, Irma Turner is on the Kentucky Transitional Assistance Program and receives food stamps. "It helps a lot when you can't get a job, you are able to provide for your family."
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“you are able to provide for your family”
Go Kentucky
2 questions.
1. What took so long?
2. Why aren’t all states doing this?
She'll have to push away from the table.
/johnny
Tennessee has a bill running that allows for a second test before benefits are stopped. A warning if you will. A second failure results in a one year suspension of benefits. They can then re-apply with a test to ensue after one year.
A good start, but since they are a drag on the tax dollar they should have some harsh conditions of life till they get back to work.
Problem is (at least in California by me) the great society benefits are so high that unless they get a starting job paying 50k a year, they will have no reason to get off the dole.
The great society safety nets have to be so tight that looking at a minimum wage job becomes a great option and until life on the dole isn’t that harsh, you are going to have tons of people dying on that dole from old age.
Cradle to grave baby!
Well, if you have to be tested to have a job, then you need to be tested to have no job...
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. - Benjamin Franklin
Amen.
I'm all for the tests, (should random test Congress and the Executive branch, too!). In ND a meth conviction excludes the user from public subsidized housing.
That's a start.
They should be required to assemble for a bowl of soup.
I’m not sure I like this...when they come down on the few it’s only a matter of time until they come for us. They get their foot in the door and...
For the love!
if those poor, poor people don't get their assistance money, how will they ever get into the casino's!
Oh the Hue manity!
I have no problem with that.
But the generational welfare Queens are going to have every "civil rights" group, 'Rat politician and Obama's DoJ suing for this injustice and prejudice. It won't pass.
It is important that working people be taxed so that they can not have kids, so that non productive people can have kids. An educated, independent working class has been a major irritant to both the Democrat and Republican party. ( Unless they want taxes, or soldiers ).
The ‘Social Service Industry’ is often the largest, most monied ‘industry’ in a city. Try fighting them. They have the money, they employ a desperate labor force that will fight tooth and nail to keep the money flowing, and they will claim the moral high ground.
There are hundreds of cites that are little more than welfare ghettos breeding Democrat voters. And, elite country club Republican like it that way. Both parties want the lower classes either on welfare or one step ahead. Keeps those people( me ) occupied and away from pestering the pseudo struggle amongst the big gov Democrats vs the big gov Republicans.
In my not-so-great state, half the welfare recipients get their drugs directly from the state (methadone).
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