Hooray for Florida ! Only 49 more states to go!!!!!!!
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?
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tncdel 2012/06/21 01:42:35
When Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed the law requiring welfare recipients to pass annual drug tests to collect benefits, he justified the likely unconstitutional law by saying it would save the state money by keeping drug users from using public money to subsidize their drug habits. Drug use, Scott claimed, was higher among welfare recipients than among the rest of the population.
Preliminary results from the state’s first round of testing, however, has seemingly proven both of those claims false. Only 2 percent of welfare recipients failed drug tests, meaning the state must reimburse the cost of the $30 drug tests to the 96 percent of recipients who passed drug tests . After reimbursements, the state’s savings will be almost broke.
Rick Scott's program almost bankrupted this State!! HE found almost NO ONE on drugs!! LMAO So the STATE had to PAY for ALL those useless drugtests and THEN it was ruled unconsitutional!! And he was aware of that but did it anyway. SO really, he BLEW more of your money then anyone on Welfare would. And if that was not enought to WASTE your money on he has been purging LEGAL voters and the STATE is paying for that TOO, even tho he has been TOLD it is ILLEGAL to DO SO. SO you see cons love breaking the law on YOUR dime.
When Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed the law requiring welfare recipients to pass annual drug tests to collect benefits, he justified the likely unconstitutional law by saying it would save the state money by keeping drug users from using public money to subsidize their drug habits. Drug use, Scott claimed, was higher among welfare recipients than among the rest of the population.
Preliminary results from the state’s first round of testing, however, has seemingly proven both of those claims false. Only 2 percent of welfare recipients failed drug tests, meaning the state must reimburse the cost of the $30 drug tests to the 96 percent of recipients who passed drug tests . After reimbursements, the state’s savings will be almost gone.
When Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed the law requiring welfare recipients to pass annual drug tests to collect benefits, he justified the likely unconstitutional law by saying it would save the state money by keeping drug users from using public money to subsidize their drug habits. Drug use, Scott claimed, was higher among welfare recipients than among the rest of the population.
Preliminary results from the state’s first round of testing, however, has seemingly proven both of those claims false. Only 2 percent of welfare recipients failed drug tests, meaning the state must reimburse the cost of the $30 drug tests to the 96 percent of recipients who passed drug tests . After reimbursements, the state’s savings will be broke.
I have to laugh at her comment, with regard to Gov. Rick Scott's program, "HE found almost NO ONE on drugs!!"
REALLY?!? In Florida, NO ONE is on drugs???
Maybe she missed the news, but this article should be of interest...
"Florida is the primary destination for cocaine smuggled from South America through the Caribbean and into the United States. South Florida and, to a lesser extent, Jacksonville and Tampa serve as regional transportation hubs and transshipment points for multikilogram to multihundred-kilogram quantities of cocaine generally destined for distribution in states east of the Mississippi River. Colombian DTOs and criminal groups control the transportation to the state; however, they usually rely on Bahamian, Cuban American, Dominican, Haitian, Jamaican, Puerto Rican and other Caribbean criminal groups to transport cocaine into Florida. Maritime vessels are the primary conveyances used to transport cocaine to Florida. Colombian DTOs and criminal groups are the primary wholesale distributors of powdered cocaine in Florida. The primary criminal groups and gangs that distribute wholesale quantities of crack cocaine in Florida vary by area and include Haitian and Jamaican crimi...
I have to laugh at her comment, with regard to Gov. Rick Scott's program, "HE found almost NO ONE on drugs!!"
REALLY?!? In Florida, NO ONE is on drugs???
Maybe she missed the news, but this article should be of interest...
"Florida is the primary destination for cocaine smuggled from South America through the Caribbean and into the United States. South Florida and, to a lesser extent, Jacksonville and Tampa serve as regional transportation hubs and transshipment points for multikilogram to multihundred-kilogram quantities of cocaine generally destined for distribution in states east of the Mississippi River. Colombian DTOs and criminal groups control the transportation to the state; however, they usually rely on Bahamian, Cuban American, Dominican, Haitian, Jamaican, Puerto Rican and other Caribbean criminal groups to transport cocaine into Florida. Maritime vessels are the primary conveyances used to transport cocaine to Florida. Colombian DTOs and criminal groups are the primary wholesale distributors of powdered cocaine in Florida. The primary criminal groups and gangs that distribute wholesale quantities of crack cocaine in Florida vary by area and include Haitian and Jamaican criminal groups, African American and Hispanic gangs, and local independent Caucasian dealers. Various criminal groups, African American and Hispanic gangs, and Caucasian and African American local independent dealers are the dominant retail distributors of powdered and crack cocaine in Florida."
http://www.justice.gov/ndic/p...
Sorry, CC, but I have to give this round to Arthur... because you're delusional!
(Art, I had to post this on your comment board, because CCRider blocked me... just like a liberal would do!)
If you want to use drugs, do it on your own dime. Every State in the Union should follow Florida's lead!
Instead I have to continuously apologize for the likes of Chucky Shumer's and those that share his political ideals.
Sorry America.
Sorry USA, we got another lefty loon here thats an embarrassment for this state, part-time he says, so he's embarrassing some other state too which is a part-time relief for some of us here.
Your the minority in New York. I guess that's why you come to this sewer pit of right wing nut fanaticism , for consolation. I come to make fun of idiots like you.
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Preliminary results from the state’s first round of testing, however, has seemingly proven both of those claims false. Only 2 percent of welfare recipients failed drug tests, meaning the state must reimburse the cost of the $30 drug tests to the 96 percent of recipients who passed drug tests . After reimbursements, the state’s savings will be almost gone.
I have a way to really save money. Cut them all off and tell them get a friggin job.
When Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed the law requiring welfare recipients to pass annual drug tests to collect benefits, he justified the likely unconstitutional law by saying it would save the state money by keeping drug users from using public money to subsidize their drug habits. Drug use, Scott claimed, was higher among welfare recipients than among the rest of the population.
Preliminary results from the state’s first round of testing, however, has seemingly proven both of those claims false. Only 2 percent of welfare recipients failed drug tests, meaning the state must reimburse the cost of the $30 drug tests to the 96 percent of recipients who passed drug tests. After reimbursements, the state’s savings will be almost broke.