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Related: About this forumWisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Backing Down From Food Stamp Fight
I had read this weekend that Walker did not mention drug testing for food stamps in his big bragging speech at the Tea Party Freedom gathering in IOWA--which I thought was odd.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Backing Down From Food Stamp Fight
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/26/scott-walker-drug-testing_n_6534606.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
Posted: 01/26/2015 9:23 am EST Updated: 01/26/2015 1:59 pm EST
WASHINGTON -- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) had previously said he wanted to fight the Obama administration over drug tests for food stamp recipients, but it turns out Walker would prefer to ask nicely.
A Walker spokeswoman said that instead of just imposing the drug tests, the governor's forthcoming budget proposal will seek permission to do so.
"The budget will include language requesting waivers from the federal government to test all able-bodied adults without dependents on FoodShare, as well as all childless adults on Medicaid," Walker spokeswoman Laurel Patrick said in an email Sunday.
Wisconsin would need a waiver because federal law bars states from adding new eligibility requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (known in Wisconsin as FoodShare), though states have some leeway to add drug screening to other programs. Last year, Walker suggested he wanted food stamp drug tests even if federal law disallowed the policy, saying he would take the fight to the courts.
"We believe that there will potentially be a fight with the federal government and in court," Walker told the Journal Sentinel in September. .......
postulater
(5,075 posts)Divide and Conquer tool once he's in charge of all 50 states at once.
Another of his Big and Bold strategies he is paid to push by his owners.
He is a perfect Stepford politician. No critical thinking, highly authoritarian, obedient to his idols, covertly hostile, and without a shred of the compassion that his religion professes.
He is the ultimate christian terrorist. Using $$$$ stolen from those he rules he convinces them he is helping them by dismantling the common support systems. Then his masters can drain the last drop of blood from the collapsing social structures that are humanity's moral compass.
Man from Pickens
(1,713 posts)insist it is much much much more important to do drug testing of politicians and elected office holders
if the rationale for testing has any merit in the first place then the point is indisputable
also, it causes politicians to flee from the proposal like they'd been set on fire... weird how that happens ain't it