Comments on: Proposed Florida law seeks drug testing for the unemployed …

By: Lynn2

Lynn2 — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:52:06 +0000

Mmmmmm I wouldnt want to target those collecting unemployment but if the objective is to keep them ABLE to work as well as keeping those recieving WELFARE able to work then so be it. If they arent working they shouldnt be druggin anyway because they need to be ready to go back to work at any given time. So who cares. If this is aimed more towards welfare recipients I can GUARANTEE that we dont need to charge for it. Getting those losers (the majority of them) off our system would pay for all the tests needed 1000 times.

By: Bubba

Bubba — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:43:07 +0000

Florida need new law makers! Florida State Senator Michael S. Bennett, and his cronies must go. Time to clean them out! They are the ones that hurt people more than they help. I think Crist once said ,”WE ARE IN THE PEOPLE BUSINESS. TIME FOR DEMOCRATS to run FLORIDA!

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:30:59 +0000

As if the person who gets laid off or fired doesn’t have enough to worry about now when they try and relax and smoke a joint to heal the emotional strain of where they are going to get money for the overdo light bill, here comes Bennett.
Q: what comes next Bennett? random breathalizars?
But I know your secret Bennett, when you used to visit us and stay over I went threw your suitcase and found your cocaine and your marijuana and took a little, think?
I will give you a hint? the year was 1982 when you were with Fawn Vending and you and my dad were in the navy together…
What a son of a bitch you turned out to be, leave the pot smokers alone you were once there too and maybe still are?

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Our Crazy Legislature, Week 6 — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:01:07 +0000

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By: salizaar

salizaar — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:03:08 +0000

Unemployment insurance is NOT a welfare program. It is not based on income or how bad you need it or how poor you are. Even when this idea was tried for those receiving actual welfare payments of some type, it was struck down as unconstitutional, because it violates the Fourth Amendment dictates against unlawful search and seizure. There is a big misconception that people who are on unemployment insurance are receiving your tax dollars, but this isn’t true. Unemployment is paid by employers, against the day when they might have to let their employees go through no fault of their own. You do not have to be poor or needy to get it,just out of work through no fault of your own, and able and available for work according to the dictates of your state. Drug testing for unemployment will not stand up to the first basic legal challenge, but is a mean, snotty way to try to make the unemployed feel demeaned. Blame the victim of this current economic recession for their own unemployment. Great idea!

By: Lynn

Lynn — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:57:08 +0000

Screw the people collecting unemployment. That means at some point in the near past they actually had a job. Im ALL for testing those collecting WELFARE. I have to take drug tests to earn my money why shouldnt they??

By: Ecommerce Job ... Where Are You?

Ecommerce Job ... Where Are You? — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:29:06 +0000

Wow! They must be joking. Your amendment sounds like a reasonable compromise though.
The drug testing company doesn’t make enough money from people on probation and in MLB? They need to go after people with no income?
Crazy.