Florida Legislators to be Tested for Drug Abuse?

By NCD on Wed, 09/28/2011 - 10:05am |

Gov. Rick Scotts (R-FL) 'money saving' multi-million dollar scheme to expose drug abuse among Florida welfare families hasn't worked out. Test results of a program passed by Florida Republicans to drug test welfare recipients has shown only a 2.5% rate of illegal drug use among them, which is below the nearly 9% rate among all Americans. If they test negative, which almost all did, and if they fill out the government pee paperwork, they can get reimbursed from Florida taxpayers for the $10 to $25 dollar test from contracted (GOP/Rick Scott supporting?) private medical labs. Now, a Miami Herald columnist, Carl Hiiassen, has offered to pay for drug testing of all 160 Florida legislators, and presumably, Rick Scott himself. Carl Hiiassen believes the rate of drug abuse in the State House may be higher than with the jobless, as they 'whiz' away tax dollars on programs like this one.

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http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/09/24/v-fullstory/2423049/an-offer-legislators-cant-refuse.html

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You mean that worthless scumbag Scott is making the folks broke enough to get welfare front the test fee??

He really shoulda' gone away for the fraud beef...but I would settle for a serious affliction, like boils, or shingles, permanently.

by jollyroger on Wed, 09/28/2011 - 9:50pm

GOP SOP, JR.

They know paperwork/money hurdles work, be they photo ID, poll taxes or pee taxes in this case. In God, Corporations and the Rich We Trust, all others pay cash, up front. Of course if the jobless were such drug abusing scofflaws as Rick Scott apparently believed, the program would pay for itself with dropped cases.

by NCD on Wed, 09/28/2011 - 11:59pm

That is why I keep posting about buyers remorse here in Florida. I have not found one person who will admit they voted for him. The idea of drug testing that bunch in Tallahassee has been all over the media here. Originally they wanted to drug test food stamps and unemployment but ended up with just welfare. The UCLA and some other groups have got it in the courts. I have had people tell me they won't vote Republican this time because of him.

by trkingmomoe on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 4:23am

Hallelujah! As if 9/11, two failed wars, torture and the economic collapse after 8 years of George Dubya was not enough to deter them from the GOP!

by NCD on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 10:26am

Florida Legislators to be Tested for Drug Abuse?

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