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AnArmyVeteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-10 04:41 PM
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What about DRUG TESTING for Corporate Welfare recipients? (Add this to Sen Hatch's bill)
Edited on Tue Jun-22-10 04:55 PM by AnArmyVeteran
Things to add to Sen Hatch's proposed bill to drug test 14 million unemployed:

- Drug test every CEO of any business receiving any government money in the form of tax breaks, subsidies or contracts.

- Drug test board members of all corporations receiving government money.

- Drug test all members of congress, including everyone who worked in government.

- Give all members of congress polygraph tests and if they fail they would be immediately fired and lose their retirements.


Since Senator Hatch is wanting to test 14 million unemployed people at an enormous cost to the taxpayers, why not have our democratic leaders in congress add amendments to Hatch's bill to drug test EVERYONE receiving any government aid of any kind?

Drug test CEOs of every company that does business with the government. And drug test all their employees. Even board members of every corporation that receives government contracts or subsidies should also be tested. If any business receives a subsidy (taxpayer gift) of any kind make them submit to weekly drug tests.

To ensure Hatch's bill would never be passed we should also require every member of congress to be tested for drugs. And why not force all officeholders and every person who works in high levels of government to submit to monthly polygraph testing? And if they fail either the drug or polygraph test they would be immediately fired and not receive their retirements.

If I was in congress I would add these amendments to ensure that Hatch's hate-filled law wouldn't be passed. It would also shine a light on his callousness and insensitivity to those who are most vulnerable, because Hatch would never agree to drug testing his beloved business leaders. No conservatives would ever stand for having leaders of businesses tested for drugs, even though they receive hundreds of billions a year in contracts, subsidies and tax breaks.

Anyone notice how conservatives love to only attack those who are most vulnerable, while praising and supporting the very rich? Conservatives believe in using force, threats, wars and other punitive measures to resolve any problems. They don't ever think of humanity or approach things in a way that helps others.

At least 100 house republicans support BP over the Gulf fishermen who can no longer make a living. Almost every right wing radio host supports BP over the victims. They always take the sides of the powerful and the strong over the weak and oppressed, or more simply put, they side with the abusers instead of the victims.

Most conservatives seem to lack basic human abilities to have empathy or compassion for their fellow man. Their entire conservative belief system is built around leaving the most vulnerable out in the cold while letting businesses run amuck with no laws or regulations to restrict them. In 2000, Bush said "Businesses MUST be allowed to regulate themselves!". We've seen how the conservative belief of absolute lack of accountability for businesses has caused so much damage to every part of our country and the American people.

How long are we going to continue to let them get away with their callous, soulless form of governing before we expose them for what they are?

(NOTE: These additions to Hatch's inhumane proposal would obviously not be passed, but it would shine a light on the insensitivity and callousness in which conservatives view the most vulnerable in society. It would also expose conservatives for the way they use government to hurt others rather than to help them.)
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-10 04:52 PM
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1. YEAH!!! Oh, and Senators, on a daily basis; they have the fate of the nation in their hands
Edited on Tue Jun-22-10 04:52 PM by librechik
and for all we know they could all be on Ambien!

What a two-faced blot on Christianity Hatch is. DNA test him to see if he's got any human in him.
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-10 04:57 PM
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2. And Senators who live much of their lives on the government dole.
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