Meathead
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Why? Were not 23.5 ofOP is misleading.
What it says is that some 25% want to get welfare benefiTell me what this says?
During the period in which the law was in effect, 4,406 applicants submitted to drug testing. Only 108 — less than 3 percent — tested positive for drugs. Another 2,306 applicants failed to complete the applications or receive the drug screens.
“Viewing all of the facts in the light most favorable to the state, we agree with the district court that the state has failed to establish a demonstrable or peculiar drug-use problem among TANF applicants. If anything, the evidence extant suggests quite the opposite: that rates of drug use in the TANF population are no greater than for those who receive other government benefits, or even for the general public,” Marcus wrote.
Appeals Court: Welfare Drug Tests Unconstitutional
Mark
It tells me that 25% of those mooching on government benefits are using drug. It tells me that e people are free-loaders.=============25% of those test failed the drug test. Why is that so difficult to understand?===========An interesting article designed for dumbed down liberals which states that only 0.3% of those screened tested positive. Now, I would like to challenge those with US public education to figure out this paragraph of the article:
From the 7,600 recipients and applicants given an initial screening, social workers referred only 2% for drug testing. That amounted to 89 people. Of those 89, 21 people tested positive for drugs, representing less than 0.3% of the total number of those screened.
North Carolina reveals results of welfare applicant drug tests
Well somebody is full of shit somewhere.
Every time they have tested welfare recipients in other state they found it was a waste of time. Almost none tested positive. Guess what Eating and paying rent beats getting high for them.
The numbers don't add up either.
It says they sent 89 people. But first it said they sent 2% for testing and 2% of 7600 people is 152 people NOT 89.
21 test positive which is 13% of those they sent for testing and only .0027631 of the total of 7600.
WHICH ONCE AGAIN IS ALMOST NONE.
QUIT LYING
Taxpayers should not be subsiding the drug abuse of 25% of welfare recipients.
Once again, dumbass, get your fuckin' calculator out and have someone show you how to use it.
152 people were tested and 21 came up positive. 21 / 152 = .13185 --- nowhere near 25% it's 13%
and that is 13% of the small sample tested. It is only .002763157 of the total of 7600 people they pulled in.
ONCE AGAIN DUMBASS ... ALMOST NONE OF THEM TESTED POSITIVE.
Only 13% of the sample and two thousandths of a percent of the total 7600.
Even if the small sample was PERFECTLY representative of the whole group that would only be 988 out of 7600 which is 13% of the total and there is no evidence that that is the case.
Normally they would have selected those 152 people because they profiled them as being possible drug users but only 13% were. It is very likely there are drug users who weren't sent for testing but it would be a small small number.
THEY CAN'T AFFORD DRUGS