Federal judge overturns Florida law requiring drug testing welfare recipients
 

Good deal. The Fourth Amendment is alive, even though RGA and ALEC have tried to kill it. Enough of the GOP meme of "welfare queens". It's been baloney since Ronald Reagan invented it out of thin air to win an election. Let alone requiring people applying for welfare to pay for their own drug tests.

Good deal for drug cartels and assorted government officials on the take. Hooray!!

Bad news for Florida Governor Rick Scott, R-Record Medicare Fraud, who got this passed, and whose chain of Florida private medical clinics (now "owned" by his wife since he ran for Governor) specialize in things like drug testing.

Federal judge sure threw a wrench into that money-making scheme.

thats to bad..so as the johnsons sit on the new couch and ride around in a 2010 explorer..they wont be bothered to quit smoking weed and chillin on the state..ps they have 6 kids and noone has had a job sence 1992..fire up da blunt..stake on the state knucka..:tro::tro:

(Newser) – Florida’s controversial new program to drug test welfare recipients isn’t exactly catching droves of addicts.

So far only 2% of those tests have come up positive, the Tampa Tribune reports, with 96% testing clean and 2% declining to complete the application process.

That rate of failure may still be enough to save Florida a tiny bit of money, but it undermines Gov. Rick Scott's argument that welfare recipients are more likely to use illegal drugs.

Applicants must pay for their own drug tests, but Florida will have to reimburse everyone who tested drug-free. At least 1,000 applicants have taken the test since the program started July 1; at least 1,500 are expected to take it each month.

At this rate, that will amount to $28,800 to $43,200 in reimbursements a month.

http://www.newser.com/story/127011/o...rug-tests.html

Why should welfare recipients be reimbursed? I am sick of having to pay my own way and those god-damned motherf.uckers do NOTHING to survive. Nothing. You're telling me there are that many people in this country who are unable to work?

They're depressed you say? Well here's a gun and two bullets in case you miss. We'll reimburse your family the cost of the second bullet if you miss on the first shot.

This country is beyond gone.

So if the original plan had been followed 1,629 would have been cut off for failing or not testing (almost 1 in 5 or 18%). Seems to me the plan would have worked.

BTW What’s the difference between testing welfare recipients and DUI roadblocks? Driving is a privilege and receiving welfare is not?

.....and to think, they be wantin peeps to pull up their pants when they go up in a bizness. Pullin up da pants is no prolem, just keep sendin tha free money, ya herrrrd!!!

Rick Perry and Donald Trump have brought back birtherism, for all those looking for someone to hate on.

So in the real world seven out of ten welfare recipients have been on the public dole for more than 2 years and half over 5 years. I wonder how many are illegals like auntie Obama.

However some good news

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According to the source cited by Riot there are more whites on welfare than black by 1%(38% v. 37%.) However when you consider 2010 census data that shows African Americans make up 12% of population while whites 65% it starts to make that stat a bit clearer.

Considering the differences in size of population by race, would show an African American is five times as likely to be on welfare compared to a white.

I was just about to refer to this fact, but why present this information when it is minimized by such a grand presentation of Fact vs. Myth.

It's sad watching people jump through hoops trying to justify their prejudices and hatred of welfare recipients.

Hey, the John Birch Society is always looking for a few more good haters: you gotta hate gay active-duty soldiers, hate uninsured who die from accidents, cheer governors that kill people.

Yay! It's morning in America! Your candidate appears to be Rick Perry. Unless you hate Muslims more than brown people, then it's Herman Cain.

It's sad that you feel numbers are now racist and full of hatred.

Yea cause he's white. :zz: That hatred comes thru loud and clear again.

It's sad you are posting numbers from 15 years ago. 1996 Congressional hearing testimony? Really? Maybe post something from the past 2-3 years? You know, after the financial crash, and the recession, that changed how many hundreds of thousands of people are on welfare?

What are you doing, if not trying to justify your dislike of those awful "welfare recipients"? You're desperate to try and find numbers that fulfill your bitter prejudices against "welfare recipients". Because otherwise, why would the numbers matter to you?

That doesn't even make any sense.

Herman Cain is the one who already made some pretty nasty public statements about Muslims. If you don't like Muslims, looks like he's your guy. Herb doesn't like them, either.

I didn't say racist, Dell. I said "prejudiced" and "hatred". You know, two words that have completely different meanings than "racist"?

My dislike for welfare has nothing to do with race and everything to do with self-reliance and fairness especially when one has been on longer than five years. In fact I'll go so far and say I dislike white welfare recipients more than black just because they have no prejudice/racism excuse, real or not, to get themselves out.

Just to be clear again I came up with the fact African Americans are five times as likely to be on welfare by using YOUR source that gave me the 38% v. 37% and then 2010 census numbers for population breakdown according to race.