Maine Democrat submits bill to drug-test welfare recipients

Bangor Dailey News ^ | 02/28/2013 | By Matthew

[GeronL]

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[gdani]

I guess I am too dumb to get it

The Fourth Amendment applies to government only, not private workplaces.

[Ouderkirk]

The bottom line is that anyone colleting assistance from the public teet should be scrutinized for all non-prescribed drugs and it should include alcohol and cigarettes.

[Neidermeyer]

Wonder if that dem has stock in the clinics like Gov. Rick Scott who also passed it here in FL.
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It was just struck down here in FL wasn’t it?

[fieldmarshaldj]

She may not give a damn about what they think. This is her 4th term, which means she is term-limited out (unless she runs for the State Senate).

[Iron Munro]

Florida passed this same requirement into law but the court overturned the law.

See:

Drone Strikes Okay, Drug Testing Welfare Recipients, Not So Much

[goldstategop]

People are not going to be thrown on the streets in this country and allowed to starve.

But even from a liberal viewpoint, its not compassionate to give public taxpayer dollars to people bent upon destroying their own lives.

We talk about looking after the less fortunate but the flip side is they have to be responsible for their own lives, too. I don’t think that’s too much to ask of them.

[trebb]

Doesn’t that off-the-plantation Dem know that his proposal is racist? IMO they need to test as stringently as the fussiest company before they give our money to those on welfare - if they’re not clean enough to get a job, they’re not clean enough...period. How do we expect them to get off the teat if they aren’t employable?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

We need mandatory drug testing of all legislators as well.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

The bottom line is that anyone colleting assistance from the public teet should be scrutinized for all non-prescribed drugs and it should include alcohol and cigarettes.

Yet watch the Drug Warriors fight tooth and nail against alcohol testing, so deeply in denial are they about the simple fact that alcohol is a drug.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

“We give them public funds because they need it to survive. We give it for the children. We give it to them to have a better life, but not to be using it in that fashion,” Beaudoin said. “It’s to be used for food, for heat, for everything it has to be used for. Not for drugs.”

So these measures include the addictive mind-altering drug alcohol too, right? Nobody needs alcohol to survive.

its not compassionate to give public taxpayer dollars to people bent upon destroying their own lives.

We talk about looking after the less fortunate but the flip side is they have to be responsible for their own lives, too.

People irresponsibly destroy their lives with alcohol.

[Ouderkirk]

I am of the position that if you are collecting government living assistance then there will be no alcohol, no tobacco, or any other non-prescription drugs and no association with known felons and other miscreants.

The functional equivalent of being on probation or parole.