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State Rep. Wants Drug Testing for Unemployed
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Posted on 03/17/2009 9:12:15 PM PDT by MindBender26

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To: monkeyshine

One place I worked began a random drug testing program but they only wanted it to apply to field employees. I was the only manager who said it should be applied across the board, office and field alike. Boy, did I lay an egg on that one! I never saw so many pained looks around a conference table.

IT WAS SO COOL!!! MOST FUN I HAD IN THE 15 YEARS I WAS THERE! Next round of layoffs I was gone. It was still fun to see the bastards squirm.


21 posted on 03/17/2009 9:50:58 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Get the bats and light the hay)
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To: montanajoe

“WTF is wrong with so called conservative Republicans. Why isn’t the idea that government should stay out of peoples lives a core conservative belief? “

you’re right. We should eliminate UI completely. But until that happens, if someone takes our money then he has to play by our conditions and use that money to get back on his feet again. Spending taxpayer’s hard earned money on drugs aint gonna do that.


22 posted on 03/17/2009 10:08:20 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Hail to the Dork!)
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To: monkeyshine

if you work for Geithner, it is already assumed that you must be on drugs.


23 posted on 03/17/2009 10:14:21 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Hail to the Dork!)
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To: upchuck
you should be willing to pass a random drug test.

But what drugs will they find? Refer? Beer? Viagra?

What really needs to be implemented is a 'greed' test on aholes like Dodd, Frank, and others who habitually run our economy into the ditch trying to win votes from idiots who receive the benefits they promise.

I'd get in the buffet line, but it's currently swamped by corporate bigwigs and others who've sold their souls for the 'free cheese'.

24 posted on 03/17/2009 10:14:30 PM PDT by budwiesest (Trust not, anyone who'll not trust you with a gun, a golf club, or rabid gopher.)
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To: ari-freedom
Fine if you believe that just don't call yourself a conservative. People who want activist government are not conservative.
25 posted on 03/17/2009 10:22:16 PM PDT by montanajoe
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To: montanajoe

you want welfare with no restrictions.


26 posted on 03/17/2009 10:25:01 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Hail to the Dork!)
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To: ari-freedom

I want the government out of peoples lives whether you call your self a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a progressive or a liberal if you want the government mandating shit like this you are no conservative.


27 posted on 03/17/2009 10:30:33 PM PDT by montanajoe
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To: MindBender26

Not a bad idea and they should add to that random drug tests for all public officials. Zero is on drugs, we all know that.


28 posted on 03/17/2009 10:31:54 PM PDT by Force of Truth (Sarah Palin in 2012!!!!!! WOOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!)
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To: montanajoe

With the employee paying in to unemployment and the employer also, how much is from taxes??


29 posted on 03/17/2009 10:33:09 PM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 -Happy B'day Daddy 2/20/23)
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To: montanajoe

so don’t take the money in the first place and the govt won’t ask for drug testing. Probably your employer will but that’s their right and you could make up your own job if you don’t like their conditions.


30 posted on 03/17/2009 10:34:01 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Hail to the Dork!)
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To: ari-freedom
Whatever I don't waste my time with folks that aren't conservative
31 posted on 03/17/2009 10:35:58 PM PDT by montanajoe
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To: montanajoe

The steam roller of communism/socialism is here and people aren’t seeing it coming, amazing.


32 posted on 03/17/2009 10:36:37 PM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 -Happy B'day Daddy 2/20/23)
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To: montanajoe

You’re not a conservative. You’re a freeloader.


33 posted on 03/17/2009 10:40:12 PM PDT by ari-freedom
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To: tina07

Yes once you start accepting government control of other peoples lives its not to soon that you start accepting government control of your life..


34 posted on 03/17/2009 10:40:31 PM PDT by montanajoe
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To: MindBender26

This is stupid. These people are unemployed not out on parole.


35 posted on 03/17/2009 10:44:37 PM PDT by Girlene (Congratulations, Lt Col Chessani)
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To: montanajoe
Why isn't the idea that government should stay out of peoples lives a core conservative belief?

It was but it isn't anymore. Few Republicans today follow this core conservative value. Failing to adhere to the "government should stay out of people's lives" ethos makes Republicans and Democrats two different sides of the same coin.

Sure, the merits of drug testing can be rationalized through the power, need or desire of the State to protect its expenditure. This same line of thinking is what will allow the State to ration health services when/if universal health care takes root. Either side of the coin, it's to the benefit of tyranny and the detriment of freedom.

36 posted on 03/17/2009 10:52:10 PM PDT by citizenK
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To: citizenK

Excellant point


37 posted on 03/17/2009 10:57:02 PM PDT by montanajoe
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To: montanajoe

There is so much more coming and so many aren’t aware of any of it. I just read a thread about Obama’s Zero to Five plan about mandatory preschool, and from birth no less. WTH is going on?????????

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2208800/posts


38 posted on 03/17/2009 10:59:11 PM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 -Happy B'day Daddy 2/20/23)
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To: tina07
WTH is going on?????????

In my opinion Obama is a master of picking off just enough people with his rhetoric no matter what they call themselves politically to be able to push through his aganda.

This is why I'm so disgusted with conservatives today. So many people want an activist government, so many think the government is their friend. Good government is limited government but once the citizens accept government intrusion to promote their agenda then they are co-opted and cannot argue or present a conservative view of government.

39 posted on 03/17/2009 11:10:06 PM PDT by montanajoe
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To: montanajoe

this site is loaded with many less than conservative...I knew the answer to my own WTH question :)


40 posted on 03/17/2009 11:25:27 PM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 -Happy B'day Daddy 2/20/23)
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