"lawmaker Proposes Drug Test For Mi. Wellfare Recipients"

[Anishfisher]

Ok, so how would this affect us?

 

http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/12/lawmaker_proposes_drug_tests_f.html

[RazrGuy]

Ok, so how would this affect us?

 

http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/12/lawmaker_proposes_drug_tests_f.html

 

This has been floated here before, it isn't cost effective. It wont pass.

[Northern Lab]

Didn't they just try something like this in Florida and it was a miserable failure?

[Anishfisher]

Didn't they just try something like this in Florida and it was a miserable failure?

 

I was reading that Florida tested some obsurd number of welfare people and only a handfull came back positive. Everybody just stopped smoking for a while before they had to test. What a waste of taxpayers money.

[TheBeagle]

i hope they do pass this....but,,,exclude MaryJane from it...... test of coke meth heroin etctec......that more $$$ in OUR pockets...as it less $$$ we have to pay out as citizens for the crackheads

[Mememe]

Coke, heroin and crack are only in the system for a couple days. The testing companies would end up getting rich at the expense of the taxpayer.

[purklize]

If you don't give crackheads food and a place to stay, then they will just steal (violently) more from us to get it. Better to just leave this alone.

[Iceman081]

Didn't they just try something like this in Florida and it was a miserable failure?

 

Yeah the only ones that made out in Florida was the companies that did the drug tests, they made out like fat rats. (Probably owned by Legislatures) Out of all the the people tested it was less than 2% that tested positive for drug use, when you look at the money spent to implement the program it was a total waste of money!! I was going to send this congressman a e-mail and tell him to research this kind of waste before you waste more of our money!!! Sounds like a good idea but in reality it is what is wrong with the system, too much government rules and regulation = Huge Wastes of Money!!!

[jjbigs]

Yeah the only ones that made out in Florida was the companies that did the drug tests, they made out like fat rats. (Probably owned by Legislatures) Out of all the the people tested it was less than 2% that tested positive for drug use, when you look at the money spent to implement the program it was a total waste of money!! I was going to send this congressman a e-mail and tell him to research this kind of waste before you waste more of our money!!! Sounds like a good idea but in reality it is what is wrong with the system, too much government rules and regulation = Huge Wastes of Money!!!

very well said!

[Anishfisher]

Coke, heroin and crack are only in the system for a couple days. The testing companies would end up getting rich at the expense of the taxpayer.

 

Why not? Everybody else is, lol! Joking aside I absolutely agree.

[cristinew]

How about we drug test the michigan senate and house?

[nthlghts]

I agree, then again I also agree politicians should be first in line too. Practice what you preach if your going to preach!