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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnyone who receives public funds should be drug tested....
if poor people are required to be drug tested to receive the pittance called welfare, than public officials who receive more than a pittance and are able to direct public funds should be drug tested as an even higher priority: each pay period would be approrpriate commensurate with the amount of money they are receiving from the public.
Another state is looking to make drug testing a condition of welfare...which is what led to this rant
JoeBlowToo
(253 posts)Boening, Dyncorp. Lockheed Martin, Kellog Brown & Root, GE, Microsoft, Apple, and many more!
surrealAmerican
(11,363 posts)Would you also need to test the board of directors? ... the CEO? the CFO?
... all the executives?
... all the employees?
... all the stockholders?
What does it mean to "drug test" a corporation, anyway?
every last one!
BuelahWitch
(9,083 posts)at least the lower level ones.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)After all, they are paid with public funds.
If I have to piss in a cup to receive SocSec, which I paid into for decades, the can do it, too.
I'm all in on this hand.
KT2000
(20,586 posts)It should be all or nothing.
Lesmoderesstupides
(156 posts)it is a condition of employment and you can be tested at any time.
KT2000
(20,586 posts)outsources jobs to private contractors. An example of this is that Federal employee records are now maintained by private companies - Northrup Grumman (sp?) for one.
All kinds of processes that were once done by government employees (state and federal) are now being done by private contractors. IT is a big one for that.
I know people who have done this and they have not been tested.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)of decision, pastors, advertising representatives, anyone who deals with the public, anyone in a service or manufacturing job...it just makes sense!
surrealAmerican
(11,363 posts)Why can't need alone define who gets welfare? Why do we have to just let people starve to death if they aren't "worthy"?
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)the poor, elderly, and disabled completely dependent on private charity.
Private charity, of course, is completely free to pick and choose who they wish to help and who they don't. I'm sure you can see whare this is leading.
The unworthy will simply starve, just like back in the good old days.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)higher than the thermometer in July.
Jus saying.......
LWolf
(46,179 posts)DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav
(408 posts)A recent survey by the nonpartisan, nonprofit Better Georgia shows that Georgians more heavily favor drug tests for elected officials and CEOs of corporations that profit from tax dollars than for recipients of unemployment benefits and welfare. The survey of 806 registered Georgia voters has a 3.5% margin of error and showed:
* 79 % support drug testing elected officials and senior appointed officials
* 66% support drug testing CEOs of corporations that get tax credits or government contracts
* 64% support drug testing welfare recipients and unemployment recipient
http://www.politicususa.com/georgia-drug-testing.html