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riversedge

(69,721 posts)
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 04:26 AM Jan 2015

Wisconsin 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. .......

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Backing Down From Food Stamp Fight (Original Post) riversedge Jan 2015 OP
He figures he will use Medicaid cuts as his postulater Jan 2015 #1
How to shut down "drug testing for welfare" initiatives Man from Pickens Jan 2015 #2

postulater

(5,075 posts)
1. He figures he will use Medicaid cuts as his
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 07:01 AM
Jan 2015

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)
2. How to shut down "drug testing for welfare" initiatives
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 07:10 AM
Jan 2015

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

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