Bumper to bumper traffic due to MASS EXODUS of FLORIDA!
Yo'Adrienne..AFCL
2012/07/20 19:35:13
Mass exodus of Florida.......
Only 49 more states to go!
Hooray for Florida !
I-95 and I-75 will be jammed for the next month or so with druggies and deadbeats heading North out of Florida, because this is the first state in the union to require drug testing to receive welfare!
Hooray for Florida! In signing the new law, Republican Gov. Rick Scott said, "If Floridians want welfare, they better make sure they are drug-free."
Applicants must pay for the drug test, but are reimbursed if they test drug-free. Applicants who test positive for illicit substances, won't be eligible for the funds for a year, or until they undergo treatment. Those who fail a second time will be banned from receiving funds for three years!
Naturally, a few people are crying this is unconstitutional.
How is this unconstitutional? It's a legal requirement that every person applying for a job has to pass drug tests in order to get the job, why not those who receive welfare?
Let's get welfare back to the ones who need it, not to those who won't get a job.
I AGREE, DO YOU?
{and P.S. Thanks Governor Scott....You rock! / Yo'}
Only 49 more states to go!
Hooray for Florida !
I-95 and I-75 will be jammed for the next month or so with druggies and deadbeats heading North out of Florida, because this is the first state in the union to require drug testing to receive welfare!
Hooray for Florida! In signing the new law, Republican Gov. Rick Scott said, "If Floridians want welfare, they better make sure they are drug-free."
Applicants must pay for the drug test, but are reimbursed if they test drug-free. Applicants who test positive for illicit substances, won't be eligible for the funds for a year, or until they undergo treatment. Those who fail a second time will be banned from receiving funds for three years!
Naturally, a few people are crying this is unconstitutional.
How is this unconstitutional? It's a legal requirement that every person applying for a job has to pass drug tests in order to get the job, why not those who receive welfare?
Let's get welfare back to the ones who need it, not to those who won't get a job.
I AGREE, DO YOU?
{and P.S. Thanks Governor Scott....You rock! / Yo'}
Top Opinion
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Jill 2012/11/27 22:03:07
Wait till Florida finds out that all those tests cost a lot more than they save on the 2% who turn up positive.
This is petty, punitive and shows a cluelessness only a politician.could muster. Create a problem, diagnose it incorrectly and apply the wrong solution
This isn't going to solve anything, it's just more govt bureaucracy and another paper mountain..
Since Florida is a retirement mecca and the bars are full of seniors getting sloshed that should catch more than enough drunks to save the Fed some money!
Those are called facts!
Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who rode his own fortune and the tea party’s adoration to office last year, has stated publicly several times that people on welfare use drugs at a higher rate than the general population. So at Scott’s urging earlier this year, the legislature implemented a policy requiring all temporary cash assistance applicants pass a drug test before getting any help.
The Department of Children and Families says about 2 percent of applicants are failing the test; another 2 percent are not completing the application process, for reasons unspecified, according to the Tampa Tribune.
The Tampa Tribune did some simple math and found out how much the governor’s assumptions about poor people going to cost the state:
Cost of the tests averages about $30. Assuming that 1,000 to 1,500 applicants take the test every month, the state will owe about $28,800-$43,200 monthly in reimbursements to those who test drug-free.
That compares with roughly $32,200-$48,200 the state may save on one month’s worth of rejected applicants.
Net savings to the state: $3,400 to $5,000 annually on one month’s worth of rejected applicants. Over 12 months, the money s...
Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who rode his own fortune and the tea party’s adoration to office last year, has stated publicly several times that people on welfare use drugs at a higher rate than the general population. So at Scott’s urging earlier this year, the legislature implemented a policy requiring all temporary cash assistance applicants pass a drug test before getting any help.
The Department of Children and Families says about 2 percent of applicants are failing the test; another 2 percent are not completing the application process, for reasons unspecified, according to the Tampa Tribune.
The Tampa Tribune did some simple math and found out how much the governor’s assumptions about poor people going to cost the state:
Cost of the tests averages about $30. Assuming that 1,000 to 1,500 applicants take the test every month, the state will owe about $28,800-$43,200 monthly in reimbursements to those who test drug-free.
That compares with roughly $32,200-$48,200 the state may save on one month’s worth of rejected applicants.
Net savings to the state: $3,400 to $5,000 annually on one month’s worth of rejected applicants. Over 12 months, the money saved on all rejected applicants would add up to $40,800 to $60,000 for a program that state analysts have predicted will cost $178 million this fiscal year.
yada yada yada!
I mean, it's the Governments right to impose restrictions on who they hand out money to. Especially if in the face of medical evidence it will help people stay clean. Is alcohol and nicotine included? It should be. Otherwise see proof of a medical certificate.
That said it does impose on a persons own free will to do what they want to do with their bodies. However, the law is the law is the law and enforcing the law is something the state does, if this means random on the spot drug tests, so be it. I see no difference here. Those who break the law (take illegal substances) should not be awarded state subsidy.
However, if something is legal to take and the government say: "Nada" then I'd have to say sorry, but we're doing legal stuff. Unfortunately, that's alcohol and nicotine which I think should be illegal.
I sure do...especially about getting welfare back to the ones who need it, not to those who won't get off their fat asses and refuse to work
So here he is again ? Failed so fabulously in 2011 he has decided to go for a repeat performance?
Do hair drug testing and then you'll get the truth but drug testing is a waste of tax payer money .