So, Florida saved a bundle by drug testing welfare recipients, right?!?!

[OmahaBlueDog]

If you think so, you've got another think coming.



From "I Will Vote For Obama In 2012": http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/I-will-vote-for-Obama-in-2012/109880029049898

[teddy51]

1. Now wasn't that an exercise in futility and expense? These F***ing Repugs are going to be the

end of this country financially.

[SharonAnn]

3. Sidn't Gov. Scott's family own the drug testing firm? Seriously.

[OmahaBlueDog]

6. Thanks SharonAnn. I FORGOT TO ADD THIS

From the FB post at the link I cited in the OP:

Florida Governor Rick Scott (Republican) passed into law a bill mandating drug testing for those on public assistance. The company he founded, Solantic, does a big drug testing business. Although Scott divested himself of interest in the company in January, the controlling share went to a trust in his wife’s name.

According to an April 5 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Florida was suffering one of the largest uncontained TB outbreaks in 20 years -- ...and the largest spike nationwide -- resulting in 13 deaths and 99 illnesses...

Gov. Scott closed the hospital three months after the federally-issued report anyway, prompting questions: what did the state know, and when did they know it? And why was the outbreak kept secret?
Photo via: Addicting Info's Photos
Sources: Palm Beach Post and Huffington Post

What are your thoughts?

ps

[handmade34]

2. and who favors it?

[OmahaBlueDog]

5. ..and there you have it ladies and gentlemen.

The candidate in favor of spending $178M to save $60K.

[DirkGently]

4. Well, it IS kind of the perfect Republican policy.

What with the smearing and humiliation of the unemployed, diverting public funds to corporations. Screw the people AND steal their money? Perfect!

[Honeycombe8]

7. I was explaining this to my Dad after he voiced approval of the drug testing.

I brought up the Florida example. I think it made an impact on his thinking. This drug testing thing is not about money.

Besides, as I explained to him, what if a single mother with kids is on drugs? Should she really not get food stamps for her kids because she's smoking pot? He said, well, "yeah, that may not be the right thing, there."

[handmade34]

8. yes, but

it is about money in one sense... the profit made by the drug testing company

[OmahaBlueDog]

9. ..just in case the morning shift hasn't seen this

[A Simple Game]

10. I'll bet Scott feels pretty stupid right about now.

He could have used that money to help purge the voter rolls.

[RockaFowler]

11. I don't think so

They think this was great

Never mind the waste of money, how degrading to the people.

This state is killing me. How does a man who bilked Medicare out of money get elected to a state where over 1/2 our population is on Medicare?? I can just scream!!

[justabob]

12. how many more people could have been helped

with 178 million?! If not via welfare, then by hiring teachers, or firemen, or keeping a library open.... or any other beneficial thing?! It just makes me

[Hubert Flottz]

13. Well at least that 2%'s kids will go hungry, because a test is not foolproof...

or because the kid's parents made a mistake.

That should make all those compassionate CONservatives happy.

[Lyric]

14. Part of that 2% statistic wasn't even people who failed the test.

The 2% statistic also included everyone who refused to take the test. Not all of them were necessarily drug users. Poor people can have dignity enough to refuse to submit to humiliation, too. Even if they have to suffer for it.