Florida Welfare Drug Testing Graphic- DO THE MATH.

[stlsaxman]

Found this on Facebook and know not who to credit this to... but- DAMN- it's astounding.

[Fresh_Start]

1. send it to every damn news organization in Florida

and hopefully someone will research the legislatures links to drug testing companies and that will turn up some dirty laundry.

[Fresh_Start]

2. wouldn't it be sweet if they outsourced the testing too? nt

nt

[immoderate]

3. If 2% didn't pass, how is that only $60,000?

I want to send this to people, but they will question this number. What am I missing?

--imm

[xmas74]

4. Considering a family of two only receives a little over $200 a month in

TANF I could possibly see this number working on a monthly basis.

[The Genealogist]

5. The maker of the chart is missing the point of the law

Sure, $178 mil for the drug testing companies is great, in Repuke eyes. The real goal of this is to punish, marginalize, other, and scapegoat poor people. Poor people are evil, and evil people are giving hard working peoples' money to the evil ones. Those free handouts for poor people should be going to rich people, whom God himself chose as special and righteous! Vote Repuke!

[HockeyMom]

6. Rick Scott's wife "owns" a drug testing company

The wanted to test all state employees also. Just imagine the MONEY that would be made from both of these. There is legal precidence on random testing of CURRENT state employees without a reasonable cause about a particular employee. There was so much outrage over this one that Scottie dropped it.

These morons seem to think if you are receiving government "entitel,ents", o r work for government not a FOR PROFIT company, you must be on drugs. How about drug testing these LEGISTATORS?

[Massacure]

7. I don't believe these figures.

The cost of a drug test runs about $50 a pop, maybe a little more. That is 3.5 million tests conducted with $178 million.

If 2% of those 3.5 million people failed, that means 70,000 people are not receiving benefits. There is no way those 70,000 people were in line to earn $60,000. That would imply they were each in line to receive 85 cents...

[immoderate]

8. Thanks. I alluded to this above.

I questioned the $60,000.

I came back this time to wonder about the $178 M. That seems like a lot of testing to account for.

It's a nice graphic, but it doesn't make sense to me and it's tough when you're the only one.

--imm

[creeksneakers2]

9. Here's a link that gives some of the same figures

but for different catagories. The $178 million is the cost of the entire assistance program.
The $60,000 is what the state saves after the cost of testing everybody is deducted from the savings from dropping 2% (or 4%, because another 2% doesn't complete the application/test process.) The tests cost about $30.

http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/08/98_of_florida_welfare_applicants_pass_newly_implemented_drug_tests_discrediting_governor.html

[stlsaxman]

10. thanks for doing the research... having posted the graph i realized those numbers

could mean anything... or nothing.

again- thanks!

[Festivito]

11. Now 4% lack food and may have a drug problem (half do). What will they do? Hmm. Huh?

Of course they'll find a job during what Republicans who want this bill say is a failed job market.

Rather than turning to begging, stealing, prostituting and selling drugs, all of which make Republican buddies more fun.