Posted on 06/01/2012 12:00:10 PM PDT by Ken H
That’s absolutely disgusting. Why are “free” people so accepting of being forced to pee in a frickin cup on demand? Especially if they don’t have a record and already have proven experience in their field. It’s disgusting, Orwellian and serves no purpose except for conditioning us to accept government intrusion.
Testing is complete BS and a complete waste of time and money. The only substance it is effective for is pot. One can use pretty much anything else and test negative the next day. Even if they use every day, the test at most work for 2 days. Most chemicals are water soluble and they leave your body as quickly as alcohol.
Private companies understand that it is your performance and skills that matter, not the contents of your bodily waste. You will not find a single private firm that wastes their time and money on this unless the feds force them to.
I’m coming to the conclusion that pot should be legalized.
The current war on terror is extracting a terrible, violent
price on humanity - making much of the world a transit system
- and raising the price of drugs that gangs have control over.
Is it bad for you? Sure, at least for your lungs. Can we keep people
from doing stupid things? Apparently not.
I’d let it go.
License and tax it if you wish.
Its worse than you know.
I would disqualify from voting anyone who had ever been convicted of voter fraud, all felons and ex-felons, all recipients of Federal aid, and anyone who does not pay Federal income tax. (I understand FR wishes to repeal the income tax, but while it is in effect I would use it as a means test to separate producers from parasites.)
As long as degenerates vote, degenerates will be elected. Neither the Roman Republic nor our own founders thought that suffrage was a universal ‘right’.
Then you are a statist of the very worst sort.
Once and for all, children, voting is a privilege - not a right.
You don’t want the guy who does your tires to also be your cardiologist, you don’t want a rig hand to run Exxon, You don’t want a PFC fresh out of boot camp to plan a major offensive;
and you don’t want criminals, or the mentally insane, or drug abusers, or those incapable/unwilling to provide for themselves and their families to choose your nation’s leadership.
You have bad leaders because they are chosen by bad voters. Nancy Pelosi is reelected every two years by a margin of 80% because her District is full of gay, drug abusing (mutant?) parasites who will ALWAYS choose evil over good. If we were selective about granting the voting privilege - as the founders were - then the qualified voters would choose qualified leaders.
Give me liberty or give me death!
I favor allowing it. The fewer ways government tells Americans how to live their lives the better. I hate the nanny state and while smoking pot can have bad effects on those who do it so do a lot of other behaviors that we allow. We should allow it, tax it, and regulate it. It’ll also have the effect of cutting down on the cost and carnage of the drug war.
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