Drug tests for welfare recipients

Under the Tennessee bill, welfare applicants will be required to pay for the test themselves.

So if they spend their money on drugs they won't take the test and won't be caught?

and again more begrudgery, how about drug test for the kunting bankers who rightly fuked this country, how about that

I would have to agree, fed up with these scroungers spending the states money on drink, drugs and in the bookies :mad:

If the same rules are carried out for alchohol or cigerettes then maybe, but it wont will it? Harder drugs stay in your system for a shorter period of time then canabis for example so there are also other side effects of such a system. Not really black and white.

xxxJennyxxx wrote: »

I would have to agree, fed up with these scroungers spending the states money on drink, drugs and in the bookies :mad:

your taxes are going towards paying off gambling bankers debt, not poor peoples drink or drug habbits

Temptamperu wrote: »

why not everyone seeking employment too?

Some companies do.

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

"Net savings to the state: $3,400 to $5,000 annually on one month’s worth of rejected applicants. Over 12 months, the money saved on all rejected applicants would add up to $40,800 to $60,000 for a program that state analysts have predicted will cost $178 million this fiscal year."

Tax payers are paying off 250 billion of banking debts, prawn cocktail munching ass hats who cost us 250 billion, and still you get mad over some lad spending his hundred quid on booze, its hilarious , only in Ireland.

The money the bankers lost that you all are repaying but are too thick to see anything but the lad drinking on the corner could pay for 2.5 million people drinking benefits for 10 years

so yea get mad at the guy drinking his benefits, his benefits are 1% of your tax, 99% of your tax goes to the well do do lovie dovies who don't spend benefits on drink, they just sh1t the country down the toilet while trying to get maaad rich. And laughing too because nobody cares, they are too mad they have to work and johnny spends his 100 quid on booze while they have to work, omg i have to work while he drinks (too fukin thick to realise the huge tax i pay is to subsidize gambling bankers and not to pay for Johnny's booze )


if you are concerned about how anyone spends benefits you are short a few pennies and are part of the problem

i think its a very good idea, but could be too harsh, if someone just smoked a joint at a party its not like other people on the dole who spend all there money on weed, drink and other drugs they dont deserve social welfare so i think its a brilliant idea if they test how much drugs are in the system etc. but will also need to put these people into some sort of rehab or care rather than cancelling their welfare making them homeless and addicted to drugs

xxxJennyxxx wrote: »

Arn't taxes not going towards social welfare too?

Don't be coming in here ruining the thread with facts and the like.

yammycat wrote: »

Tax payers are paying off 250 billion of banking debts, prawn cocktail munching ass hats who cost us 250 billion, and still you get mad over some lad spending his hundred quid on booze, its hilarious , only in Ireland.

Not true, it's just over 60 billion.

yammycat wrote: »

too fukin thick to realise the huge tax i pay is to subsidize gambling bankers and not to pay for Johnny's booze )

That's not true either, very little of the deficit is due to the bailout.