Scott Walker looks to gain votes by attacking jobless aid and food stamp applicants

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Scott Walker looks to gain votes by attacking jobless aid and food stamp applicants

by Laura Clawson at Daily Kos

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/15/1329953/-Scott-Walker-looks-to-gain-votes-by-attacking-jobless-aid-and-food-stamp-applicants

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is in trouble in his re-election campaign, so he's going back to a strategy that's served him well: divide and conquer. Walker's new plan involves targeting some of Wisconsin's most vulnerable by requiring drug tests for unemployment insurance and food stamp applicants, while using the fact that that's illegal to pick a fight with the federal government:


Few details were included on the new proposals, but advocates for the needy said the drug testing proposal for jobless and food stamp benefits would violate federal law — a complication that killed a similar proposal promoted by Republican lawmakers in 2011. Walker himself acknowledged the potential for conflict but said the move was still right for the state.

"We believe that there will potentially be a fight with the federal government and in court. ... Our goal here is not to make it harder to get government assistance; it's to make it easier to get a job," Walker said.

This is an obvious campaign ploy. Walker is offering the Republican base two distinct kinds of catnip: anti-poor people catnip and anti-federal government catnip. His actual drug-testing plan would be unlikely to hold up in federal court and even if it did, the experience of states that have implemented similar plans suggests that just a tiny percentage of applicants for aid would test negative. That means that either the state would waste a lot of money on negative drug tests or force people having trouble putting food on the table to pay for their own drug tests.


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[Jack Rabbit]

1. Walker is merely saying what Dave and Charlie Koch tell him to say

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He's still a Koch snorter and any money he takes from the Kochs is still tainted with corruption.

Legalized bribery is still bribery.

[Half-Century Man]

2. He was emboldened by his successfully Anti-American voter suppression law being upheld by

an apparent, I mean appellate court.
So now that the poor cannot fight the power amassed against them. Time for the amusing abuse.
A crap cake of dehumanizing conditions to get the tiny bit of help you might qualify for. With the frosting of proving your innocence of your assumed addiction.

By November, Walker will have us racing naked through city streets for food stamps.

[Thinkingabout]

3. He should take a drug test before he gets paid from the state also.

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4. He should take a hormone test to see if he is fully human.

[Thinkingabout]

5. Gotcha

[Skittles]

6. can we please drug test the rich white assholes who start senseless wars and crash economies?

PLEASE?