Today's Gripe

[Calgon1]

Like a lot of folks, I have a job. I work. My employer pays me. I pay my taxes. The government distributes my taxes as they see fit. In order to get my paycheck, I am required to pass random drug testing. I have no problem with that.

Where I do have a problem, however, is with the distribution of my taxes to people who do not have to pass a drug test. Shouldn't one have to pass a drug test to get a welfare check? After all, i have to pass one to earn it for them.

Please understand, I have no problem with helping people get back on their feet. I do have a problem with helping someone sitting on their butt, using (and often selling) drugs, while I work.

Can you imagine how much money the government would save if prople had to pass a drug test to get public assistance?

[reggae]

Sounds like you live in my state (Michigan) :)

My dd has to be randomly drug tested at her job. So far this year, four times.

Michigan needs to do something quick, we are sinking in quicksand

[suer182]

Sorry reggae, Calgon is talking about New York State. Dont even get me started. We use to own rental property........

[Rubysky]

great idea

[Cruise cutie]

Work's for me..as a nurse..at our facility..an International company.. we are BONDED!!, and they have the right to haul us in any old time should they feel like it..


My Dear Momma & Poppa owns a construction firm that's basically out of Manhattan, and DC.. and you should hear the "workman's comp disabilities"..etc etc that befalls my folks.... it's so sad.. Folks that work SO hard to support a system that rewards lazy, shiftless, cheating no- accounts.. I am so for helping anyone truly in need, always..in a heartbeat.. especially the young and elderly..

but too many to count work the system to have it be they get a free ride, on the coat-tails of hard working honest folks.. sigh.. I'll end here..or be booted....Joanne

[duskbat]

drug testing? sign me up!

but really. drugs illegal and not are big business. would our taxes be best used for locking up every illegal drug dealer and user? i dont know. i dont think it will ever stop unless we lock drug dealers uo for life. maybe in the desert or a lost island.

[Whimsy]

I totally agree with you Calgon. I have a few other comments I could add but I won't.

[ShipMaven]

Don't get ME started either! :X

Years ago, in the heyday of psychedelic drugs, I taught at one of the Ivy League universities. Drugs were rampant - we, as faculty, were NOT allowed to report students. Students were permitted to come to class so freaked out that they barely could put an entire sentence together and we could do NOTHING. If the administration or campus police got wind of an impending drug bust by the local police or FBI, they warned the students to get rid of evidence. They were supposedly acting in loco parens. The psychiatric wards of the local hospitals and university facilities were filled to overflowing - some, little more than vegetables. Remember - Ivy League - "cream of the crop" intelligentia!!!

I agree both with Calgon and Duskbat.

[gram]

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Calgon I have to totally agree with you. I could go on and on about that subject but won't!!!!!!!!

[cjbee]

When they announced our plant closing, management expected all to rush out and find jobs (me included). Very few people are. Instead they are waiting to collect unemployment and some have even checked to see how much they can get in food stamps.

And let me tell you, here in VA, unemployment pays $363 weekly, regardless of how much you make. I couldn't pay the monthly rent with that.....
CJ