[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by Fluid Power

Drug testing Welfare recipients doesn't work:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/us...ests.html?_r=0

That's from the NY times baby! Not some internet only rag!

Darren

AH...... but here's the part you missed. And to most Americans it's probably the underlying sentiment. Sentiment IS IMPORTANT.


But supporters of the law said four months of numbers did little to discredit an effort they said was based on common sense. Drug users, no matter their numbers, should not be allowed to use taxpayer money, they said.

“We had to stop allowing tax dollars for anybody to buy drugs with,” said State Representative Jimmie T. Smith, a Republican who sponsored the bill last year. Taxpayer savings also come in deterring those drug users who would otherwise apply for cash assistance but now think twice because of the law, some argued.