Welfare Abusers in 12 States Just Got Some Brutal Bad News

[TyroneSlothrop]

was White Republican Congressman Trey Radal offered substance abuse treatment....?

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

Shouldn't farmers who receive taxpayer funded crop subsidies have to prove they are not wasting the money on drugs?

Shouldn't the recipients of massive corporate welfare have to prove they're not on drugs?

Or that matter, I'd like to see them show us how they're spending the tax payer's money.

Yes I agree anyone involved in getting Government contracts need to be tested from the CEO to the clerks

 

[reconmark]

What's Really Behind the Republican Push to Drug Test Welfare Recipients


Unlike Gov. McCrory, who refused to defy common sense to pander to a wrong-headed partisan agenda, Republicans in Congress have sought to expand their state counterparts' bad ideas further: they would like to allow drug testing for food stamp applicants. Besides harboring such an irrational obsession against the poor, the politicians seem to be also motivated by being in the pocket of large pharmaceutical companies: Hoffmann-La Roche has worked extensively to promote drug testing in all areas where governments can mandate such screening in order to boost profits for its labs, while Florida Governor Rick Scott used to run a company selling drug tests.

It is uncertain whether Gov. McCrory's veto will be sustained as the legislature will have the opportunity to override it after Labor Day, and it is uncertain whether other states will heed his message. But it's my hope that compassion and fiscal prudence will prevail.

What s Really Behind the Republican Push to Drug Test Welfare Recipients - Mic

 

[reconmark]

Relatively modest is actually not looking at the costs saved by those not applying. It then goes on to show a saving of $350,000.
Didn't complete the process, drug testing.
Not only that, in a number of states they actually have programs they offer to these recipients, to help them beat their drug use. They also know, if their are kids in the custody of these recipients, and there is hard drug use, they know they need to check the welfare of these kids. Do understand, the kids benefits are not denied. The benefits of parents drug free to these children cannot be measured.

Where savings are reported, they are relatively modest. In its first year with a questionnaire-plus-testing policy, Utah reportedly spent $30,000 on the screening to net 12 positive tests. In total, 250 people were denied benefits, in most cases because they didn't complete the process. As a result, the state saved $350,000 in benefits not paid.

Did they find a job????...nah...it had to be they were drug users according to some posters...

Sure...

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

I find it comical that Trey Radel voted for drug testing welfare recipients and than gets busted for blow. What a hypocrite.

Because he knew it would only be applied to "those people."

The whole thing is intended to demean welfare recipient with the stereotype all welfare recipient are lazy drug using slackers...it is also a way for the GOP Governors to make money from drug testing...these laws are meant for the Ni**ers

Being on welfare shouldnt be easy. And I damn sure dont care if they get their feelings hurt.

Being on welfare is never easy jag off

So having the gov put money in your EBT account is difficult?
You and I have differing opinions on difficult.

 

[AmericanFirst]

Those drug tests make conservatives feel good but they yield painfully few violators

A waste of taxpayer dollars

Lets put it to the test and find out

-Geaux

What 7 States Discovered After Spending More Than 1 Million Drug Testing Welfare Recipients ThinkProgress

According to state data gathered by ThinkProgress, the seven states with existing programs — Arizona, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Utah — are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to ferret out very few drug users. The statistics show that applicants actually test positive at a lower rate than the drug use of the general population. The national drug use rate is 9.4 percent. In these states, however, the rate of positive drug tests to total welfare applicants ranges from 0.002 percent to 8.3 percent, but all except one have a rate below 1 percent. Meanwhile, they’ve collectively spent nearly $1 million on the effort, and millions more may have to be spent in coming years.

Thinkprogress is Soros, your source sucks as most libtarded ideas suck. Yawn, moving on.

 

[rightwinger]

Feel free to show any data that shows these drug tests are making a difference

care to provide proof of this lie ?

Arizona, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Utah — are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to ferret out very few drug users. The statistics show that applicants actually test positive at a lower rate than the drug use of the general population.

have you always been a libertard ?

Still waiting for your link

I will give ya twenty more minutes before I dismiss your post as talking out your ass

 

[1stRambo]

Those drug tests make conservatives feel good but they yield painfully few violators

A waste of taxpayer dollars

Lets put it to the test and find out

-Geaux

What 7 States Discovered After Spending More Than 1 Million Drug Testing Welfare Recipients ThinkProgress

According to state data gathered by ThinkProgress, the seven states with existing programs — Arizona, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Utah — are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to ferret out very few drug users. The statistics show that applicants actually test positive at a lower rate than the drug use of the general population. The national drug use rate is 9.4 percent. In these states, however, the rate of positive drug tests to total welfare applicants ranges from 0.002 percent to 8.3 percent, but all except one have a rate below 1 percent. Meanwhile, they’ve collectively spent nearly $1 million on the effort, and millions more may have to be spent in coming years.

Yo, drug testing should pay for itself after catching a few? The money used for Welfare should pay for it in the long run!!! The Radicals don`t like it because it might cost them voters in the long run!!! Because the ones who get caught will have to find a JOB, and eventually their mindset will change, hey, being responsible for yourself is the "RIGHT" thing to do!!!!!!

"GTP"

 

[rightwinger]

Shouldn't farmers who receive taxpayer funded crop subsidies have to prove they are not wasting the money on drugs?

Shouldn't the recipients of massive corporate welfare have to prove they're not on drugs?

Or that matter, I'd like to see them show us how they're spending the tax payer's money.

After the financial collapse of 2008, shouldn't we have insisted on CEO drug testing?

 

[rightwinger]

Those drug tests make conservatives feel good but they yield painfully few violators

A waste of taxpayer dollars

Lets put it to the test and find out

-Geaux

What 7 States Discovered After Spending More Than 1 Million Drug Testing Welfare Recipients ThinkProgress

According to state data gathered by ThinkProgress, the seven states with existing programs — Arizona, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Utah — are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to ferret out very few drug users. The statistics show that applicants actually test positive at a lower rate than the drug use of the general population. The national drug use rate is 9.4 percent. In these states, however, the rate of positive drug tests to total welfare applicants ranges from 0.002 percent to 8.3 percent, but all except one have a rate below 1 percent. Meanwhile, they’ve collectively spent nearly $1 million on the effort, and millions more may have to be spent in coming years.

Yo, drug testing should pay for itself after catching a few? The money used for Welfare should pay for it in the long run!!! The Radicals don`t like it because it might cost them voters in the long run!!! Because the ones who get caught will have to find a JOB, and eventually their mindset will change, hey, being responsible for yourself is the "RIGHT" thing to do!!!!!!

"GTP"
View attachment 37436

1. Show that she is on welfare
2. Show that welfare money paid for those things

All you have so far is a picture of a black woman

 

[Sonny Clark]

I support this

Lets get it expanded to cover all 50 states

-Geaux

In most states, people collecting welfare can “earn” more money than if they worked full time at a minimum wage job, and these welfare payouts can take up roughly one-quarter to one-third of eachindividual state’s budget.

In order to cut down on these insanely high and growing costs, many states have moved to crack down on waste, fraud and abuse in their welfare programs.

One method many states have chosen to do this, and that 12 more states are now seriously looking at, is through drug testing for welfare recipients, the theory being that if someone has enough money to buy and use drugs, they don’t need or deserve welfare assistance from taxpayers.

Of course liberals will weep and wail and gnash their teeth, calling the drug testing of welfare recipients cruel, unfair and discriminatory, apparently oblivious to the fact that a majority of the workers who pay the taxes that fund welfare were required to pass a drug test in order to get their jobs

Welfare Abusers in 12 States Just Got Some Brutal Bad News

Are the ones cutting people out going to be tested also? They get paid with tax dollars. Local, county, and state employees get paid with tax dollars. Shouldn't they also be tested? And, what is the states going to do with those that fail the drug tests? If a mother fails, and has three very small children to feed, what will happen to the children? Are the states going to allow them to starve because their mother failed the drug test? And, what about testing everyone that gets tax dollars? Those that are requiring the tests, get paid via tax dollars. Are we going to be fair across the board, or just single out the poor, the less fortunate, and the disabled? Are we going to deny disabled Vets benefits? Are we going to deny small children food? What happens to those cut from the program?

( P.S. --- I'm NOT Liberal, Conservative, Republican, Democrat, nor anything other than an American for America )

 

[ClosedCaption]

Those drug tests make conservatives feel good but they yield painfully few violators

A waste of taxpayer dollars

But they get to feel good and let's be honest...feeling good is priceless. That's why Republicans plan to pay for those test includes raising taxes...

 

[1stRambo]

Those drug tests make conservatives feel good but they yield painfully few violators

A waste of taxpayer dollars

Lets put it to the test and find out

-Geaux

What 7 States Discovered After Spending More Than 1 Million Drug Testing Welfare Recipients ThinkProgress

According to state data gathered by ThinkProgress, the seven states with existing programs — Arizona, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Utah — are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to ferret out very few drug users. The statistics show that applicants actually test positive at a lower rate than the drug use of the general population. The national drug use rate is 9.4 percent. In these states, however, the rate of positive drug tests to total welfare applicants ranges from 0.002 percent to 8.3 percent, but all except one have a rate below 1 percent. Meanwhile, they’ve collectively spent nearly $1 million on the effort, and millions more may have to be spent in coming years.

Yo, drug testing should pay for itself after catching a few? The money used for Welfare should pay for it in the long run!!! The Radicals don`t like it because it might cost them voters in the long run!!! Because the ones who get caught will have to find a JOB, and eventually their mindset will change, hey, being responsible for yourself is the "RIGHT" thing to do!!!!!!

"GTP"
View attachment 37436

1. Show that she is on welfare
2. Show that welfare money paid for those things

All you have so far is a picture of a black woman

Yo, you have to be like Obama, STUPID, if you can`t see the facts of life!!!

"GTP"

"Obama Hates America"

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Those drug tests make conservatives feel good but they yield painfully few violators

A waste of taxpayer dollars

Lets put it to the test and find out

-Geaux

What 7 States Discovered After Spending More Than 1 Million Drug Testing Welfare Recipients ThinkProgress

According to state data gathered by ThinkProgress, the seven states with existing programs — Arizona, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Utah — are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to ferret out very few drug users. The statistics show that applicants actually test positive at a lower rate than the drug use of the general population. The national drug use rate is 9.4 percent. In these states, however, the rate of positive drug tests to total welfare applicants ranges from 0.002 percent to 8.3 percent, but all except one have a rate below 1 percent. Meanwhile, they’ve collectively spent nearly $1 million on the effort, and millions more may have to be spent in coming years.

Thinkprogress is Soros, your source sucks as most libtarded ideas suck. Yawn, moving on.

AmericanFirst who always posts that he believes in America LAST can't post proof to the contrary.


Bottom line is RWs want to see the poor starve.

Many of those who tested positive were combat veterans which is a group the right despises. Yeah, they'll put little "support our troops" stickers on their cars but don't expect them to actually do that.

RWs also want to give even more to the 1%. That's why they don't demand an end to corporate welfare and why they vote for politicians who take from the poor and give to the rich.

 

[ClosedCaption]

Those drug tests make conservatives feel good but they yield painfully few violators

A waste of taxpayer dollars

Lets put it to the test and find out

-Geaux

What 7 States Discovered After Spending More Than 1 Million Drug Testing Welfare Recipients ThinkProgress

According to state data gathered by ThinkProgress, the seven states with existing programs — Arizona, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Utah — are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to ferret out very few drug users. The statistics show that applicants actually test positive at a lower rate than the drug use of the general population. The national drug use rate is 9.4 percent. In these states, however, the rate of positive drug tests to total welfare applicants ranges from 0.002 percent to 8.3 percent, but all except one have a rate below 1 percent. Meanwhile, they’ve collectively spent nearly $1 million on the effort, and millions more may have to be spent in coming years.

I bet when he said put it to the test he didn't know it had already been done lol.

 

[rightwinger]

Those drug tests make conservatives feel good but they yield painfully few violators

A waste of taxpayer dollars

Lets put it to the test and find out

-Geaux

What 7 States Discovered After Spending More Than 1 Million Drug Testing Welfare Recipients ThinkProgress

According to state data gathered by ThinkProgress, the seven states with existing programs — Arizona, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Utah — are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to ferret out very few drug users. The statistics show that applicants actually test positive at a lower rate than the drug use of the general population. The national drug use rate is 9.4 percent. In these states, however, the rate of positive drug tests to total welfare applicants ranges from 0.002 percent to 8.3 percent, but all except one have a rate below 1 percent. Meanwhile, they’ve collectively spent nearly $1 million on the effort, and millions more may have to be spent in coming years.

Yo, drug testing should pay for itself after catching a few? The money used for Welfare should pay for it in the long run!!! The Radicals don`t like it because it might cost them voters in the long run!!! Because the ones who get caught will have to find a JOB, and eventually their mindset will change, hey, being responsible for yourself is the "RIGHT" thing to do!!!!!!

"GTP"
View attachment 37436

1. Show that she is on welfare
2. Show that welfare money paid for those things

All you have so far is a picture of a black woman

Yo, you have to be like Obama, STUPID, if you can`t see the facts of life!!!

"GTP"

"Obama Hates America"

I see you failed to substantiate your post

I'll just mark it down as racist bullshit on your part

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Feel free to show any data that shows these drug tests are making a difference

care to provide proof of this lie ?

Arizona, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Utah — are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to ferret out very few drug users. The statistics show that applicants actually test positive at a lower rate than the drug use of the general population.

have you always been a libertard ?

Still waiting for your link

I will give ya twenty more minutes before I dismiss your post as talking out your ass

A waste of time on your part.

Wildman knows nothing and proves it with every one of his posts.

 

[1stRambo]

I support this

Lets get it expanded to cover all 50 states

-Geaux

In most states, people collecting welfare can “earn” more money than if they worked full time at a minimum wage job, and these welfare payouts can take up roughly one-quarter to one-third of eachindividual state’s budget.

In order to cut down on these insanely high and growing costs, many states have moved to crack down on waste, fraud and abuse in their welfare programs.

One method many states have chosen to do this, and that 12 more states are now seriously looking at, is through drug testing for welfare recipients, the theory being that if someone has enough money to buy and use drugs, they don’t need or deserve welfare assistance from taxpayers.

Of course liberals will weep and wail and gnash their teeth, calling the drug testing of welfare recipients cruel, unfair and discriminatory, apparently oblivious to the fact that a majority of the workers who pay the taxes that fund welfare were required to pass a drug test in order to get their jobs

Welfare Abusers in 12 States Just Got Some Brutal Bad News

Are the ones cutting people out going to be tested also? They get paid with tax dollars. Local, county, and state employees get paid with tax dollars. Shouldn't they also be tested? And, what is the states going to do with those that fail the drug tests? If a mother fails, and has three very small children to feed, what will happen to the children? Are the states going to allow them to starve because their mother failed the drug test? And, what about testing everyone that gets tax dollars? Those that are requiring the tests, get paid via tax dollars. Are we going to be fair across the board, or just single out the poor, the less fortunate, and the disabled? Are we going to deny disabled Vets benefits? Are we going to deny small children food? What happens to those cut from the program?

( P.S. --- I'm NOT Liberal, Conservative, Republican, Democrat, nor anything other than an American for America )

Yo, put them up for Adoption? The Mother doesn`t deserve to have kids if she is on drugs!!!

"GTP"

"Obama Hates America"

 

[reconmark]

Those drug tests make conservatives feel good but they yield painfully few violators

A waste of taxpayer dollars

Lets put it to the test and find out

-Geaux

What 7 States Discovered After Spending More Than 1 Million Drug Testing Welfare Recipients ThinkProgress

According to state data gathered by ThinkProgress, the seven states with existing programs — Arizona, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Utah — are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to ferret out very few drug users. The statistics show that applicants actually test positive at a lower rate than the drug use of the general population. The national drug use rate is 9.4 percent. In these states, however, the rate of positive drug tests to total welfare applicants ranges from 0.002 percent to 8.3 percent, but all except one have a rate below 1 percent. Meanwhile, they’ve collectively spent nearly $1 million on the effort, and millions more may have to be spent in coming years.

Yo, drug testing should pay for itself after catching a few? The money used for Welfare should pay for it in the long run!!! The Radicals don`t like it because it might cost them voters in the long run!!! Because the ones who get caught will have to find a JOB, and eventually their mindset will change, hey, being responsible for yourself is the "RIGHT" thing to do!!!!!!

"GTP"
View attachment 37436

1. Show that she is on welfare
2. Show that welfare money paid for those things

All you have so far is a picture of a black woman

Yo, you have to be like Obama, STUPID, if you can`t see the facts of life!!!

"GTP"

"Obama Hates America"

In other words, you are using this as your mouth and brain:

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Those drug tests make conservatives feel good but they yield painfully few violators

A waste of taxpayer dollars

Lets put it to the test and find out

-Geaux

What 7 States Discovered After Spending More Than 1 Million Drug Testing Welfare Recipients ThinkProgress

According to state data gathered by ThinkProgress, the seven states with existing programs — Arizona, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Utah — are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to ferret out very few drug users. The statistics show that applicants actually test positive at a lower rate than the drug use of the general population. The national drug use rate is 9.4 percent. In these states, however, the rate of positive drug tests to total welfare applicants ranges from 0.002 percent to 8.3 percent, but all except one have a rate below 1 percent. Meanwhile, they’ve collectively spent nearly $1 million on the effort, and millions more may have to be spent in coming years.

Yo, drug testing should pay for itself after catching a few? The money used for Welfare should pay for it in the long run!!! The Radicals don`t like it because it might cost them voters in the long run!!! Because the ones who get caught will have to find a JOB, and eventually their mindset will change, hey, being responsible for yourself is the "RIGHT" thing to do!!!!!!

"GTP"
View attachment 37436

1stRambo

Prove who she is and that she actually does all of that.