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-FAIL - Florida Gov. Rick Scott drug testing welfare applicants -FAIL-
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<blockquote data-quote="brett636" data-source="post: 872574" data-attributes="member: 249"><p>Absolutely! That should be implemented nation wide as government assistance should not be viewed as a way of life, but a means to keep food in someone's stomach and a roof over their head until they can do so on their own. If you encourage them to stay in the system as it is setup now they stay and try to figure out how to get yet more money from it. They attempt to vote in politicans sympathetic to their cause, and figure out what the system needs to see in order to pay out more money. In some inner city neighborhoods the amount of money the government sends you is a sign of success and that just isn't a sustainable way for government assistance to continue.</p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p>Sleeve, I will try to explain this to you another way. The $178 million is not the cost of the drug testing alone. That is the total cost of the government assistance in the state of Florida. As per your own article for the drug testing to cost nearly $178 million by itself the state of FL would have to drug test nearly 6 million people, and according to your own source the number is actually 1500 max per month. The savings comes from booting out those who fail the drug test as its better to spend $30 now rather than spend thousands assisting someone with their drug habit with taxpayer dollars later. Lets not also forget the disincentive created by having the drug testing program in place. Some drug users would rather the state not know they use drugs and will fore go asking for assistance so that they can avoid being tested. I know some hub workers that want into the feeder department, but choose not to go in simply because they would have to subject themselves to a drug test and they do not want that kind of attention so they pass on any opportunities to go into feeders.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brett636, post: 872574, member: 249"] Absolutely! That should be implemented nation wide as government assistance should not be viewed as a way of life, but a means to keep food in someone's stomach and a roof over their head until they can do so on their own. If you encourage them to stay in the system as it is setup now they stay and try to figure out how to get yet more money from it. They attempt to vote in politicans sympathetic to their cause, and figure out what the system needs to see in order to pay out more money. In some inner city neighborhoods the amount of money the government sends you is a sign of success and that just isn't a sustainable way for government assistance to continue. Sleeve, I will try to explain this to you another way. The $178 million is not the cost of the drug testing alone. That is the total cost of the government assistance in the state of Florida. As per your own article for the drug testing to cost nearly $178 million by itself the state of FL would have to drug test nearly 6 million people, and according to your own source the number is actually 1500 max per month. The savings comes from booting out those who fail the drug test as its better to spend $30 now rather than spend thousands assisting someone with their drug habit with taxpayer dollars later. Lets not also forget the disincentive created by having the drug testing program in place. Some drug users would rather the state not know they use drugs and will fore go asking for assistance so that they can avoid being tested. I know some hub workers that want into the feeder department, but choose not to go in simply because they would have to subject themselves to a drug test and they do not want that kind of attention so they pass on any opportunities to go into feeders. [/QUOTE]
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