12-05-2013, 05:47 AM
I'm not compelled to argue with you, aussie. It would actually be politically correct to agree with you and ramsey and jump on the "drug test them all!" bandwagon. Nobody wants to pay for welfare recipients and politicians who abuse drugs. I can be PC all day long, it's easy.
You and ramsey can tackle creating another governmental agency (or another department of an existing one) to administer drug tests at tax payers' expense. And, what quantity/measurement of the thousands of prescription drugs that are abused should constitute a failure - abuse of legally available drugs is more widespread than meth, so that'll be very important. And, how many Heinekins would constitute abusing alcohol and disqualify a welfare recipient from parenthood and continued assistance. And, how to deal with denying food to those welfare recipients who fail a drug test. You can't toss them in jail and feed them with that pool of taxpayer revenue - unless you also wanna change the laws about probable cause and evidence and all that silly stuff, and build more prisons, or let other criminals out of the already over-crowded facilities to make room for the new drug abusers. You'll need more taxpayer revenue to fund all those extra public defenders, and judges, and court personnel as well.
Since taxpayer expense doesn't really seem to be your concern after all and the betterment of children's lives is really your motive, you'll probably wanna push for new legislation and taxpayer revenues to drug test foster parents as well - that's not currently part of the stringent expert qualifications in place for those receiving governmental/taxpayer assistance for taking in children. A plan for where to next shuffle all the kids whose foster parents fail will be necessary, too.
When you have all those pesky little details ("excuses") ironed out, I'd consider supporting drug testing for welfare recipients and Congresspersons despite my general objection to more governmental intervention. I haven't seen a plan that solves more problems than it creates and no one claims to really have one, but maybe the Congresspersons investigating the options are all on meth and need level headed parents like you and ramsey to figure it all out - for the children.
You and ramsey can tackle creating another governmental agency (or another department of an existing one) to administer drug tests at tax payers' expense. And, what quantity/measurement of the thousands of prescription drugs that are abused should constitute a failure - abuse of legally available drugs is more widespread than meth, so that'll be very important. And, how many Heinekins would constitute abusing alcohol and disqualify a welfare recipient from parenthood and continued assistance. And, how to deal with denying food to those welfare recipients who fail a drug test. You can't toss them in jail and feed them with that pool of taxpayer revenue - unless you also wanna change the laws about probable cause and evidence and all that silly stuff, and build more prisons, or let other criminals out of the already over-crowded facilities to make room for the new drug abusers. You'll need more taxpayer revenue to fund all those extra public defenders, and judges, and court personnel as well.
Since taxpayer expense doesn't really seem to be your concern after all and the betterment of children's lives is really your motive, you'll probably wanna push for new legislation and taxpayer revenues to drug test foster parents as well - that's not currently part of the stringent expert qualifications in place for those receiving governmental/taxpayer assistance for taking in children. A plan for where to next shuffle all the kids whose foster parents fail will be necessary, too.
When you have all those pesky little details ("excuses") ironed out, I'd consider supporting drug testing for welfare recipients and Congresspersons despite my general objection to more governmental intervention. I haven't seen a plan that solves more problems than it creates and no one claims to really have one, but maybe the Congresspersons investigating the options are all on meth and need level headed parents like you and ramsey to figure it all out - for the children.