The Republican Strategy to Smear Democrats as a Bunch of Druggies

First in Florida, now in Wisconsin and elsewhere, Republicans are trying to make drug testing a requirement for anyone receiving unemployment and other benefits. Why?

There's little evidence that such testing would accomplish anything. But there's only one group of People willing to fight against this further invasion of civil liberties - Democrats.

And you can bet than any and all Democrats who speak out against these invasions will be smeared as a drug addicts, drug dealers, drug whatevers by the right. And it'll scare Grandma.

OK, Scott owns the drug testing firm in Florida, so he's got that going for him too, but I can see no other reasons for pushing this legislation except pandering and smear tactics.



Am I missing something?

includes all federal workers including congress critters, the pres, and vice prez, everyone who take one thin dime of taxpayer (ie federal) money, must be drug tested.I would also include any and all government contract & grant recipients.

Just asking.

And only Republicans can end the drug war..

But they won't, it's far too useful for hippie punching..

Even if they lose passage of the legislation, it will be - as you say - because of the Democrats, so the Dems will come out looking like they're "soft on crime" and "fiscally irresponsible" and "pro having the government financially support the drug usage of the unemployed". Even though unemployment isn't government money, they spin it that way.

And if the bill passes, then the Republicans win again by further marginalization and shitting on the poor and unemployed.

And the last win is the increased use of expensive drug testing supplies will line the coffers of the already rich (who probably use more drugs than any of the folks getting unemployment).

versus the return for that testing.

The idea is fiscally irresponsible.

GOPers like to pretend they were not smoking dope and dropping out in the 60s and 70s...which is bullshit because they were in droves! Then they became greedy asshole yuppies and started destroying America from the inside. Now we have criminals in charge of making decisions about crime!!!

Fucking down is up and night is day...

to get some coverage on this.

Just another step toward a fascist state.

The governmnet will facilitate it by looking into your wee-wee.

The future is bright.

:sarcasm:

Drug testing isn't going to save tax payers any money.. it's going to cost them more.

What happens when a drug test comes back positive? Is that recipient then put into jail? Rehab? How much do either of those cost vs. the amount of welfare money they were going to recieve?

Second, what happens to the kids of druggy welfare reciepents? Now they're even further up a shit-creek. Yes - technically the drugged up parent can deem another adult to recieve the money on behalf of the child.. but who is going to make that choice? The drugged up parent. And they're more likely to choose another adult who will give the money to THEM instead of making sure it goes to their kids.

Frankly - at this point, the kids of welfare recipients are the ones i'm most concerned about.. but that's not the Republicans target here. So screw 'em.

Send the parents to jail, put the kids in "foster camps" to train them to hate, be angry, fight (hmmm.... maybe 10% make it to age 18 in the constant fighting in the barracks...), survive on little, then turn them into the super warriors needed for the constant war economy for the fuedal lords, which is the only kind of government or economy that Republicans get a boner about.

May as well get it out in the open. It's still the case that the common tests are much more sensitive to marijuana than other drugs.

So no, you're not really missing anything.

It's a divisive issue among Democrats. Sure win for the Republicans there.
It's a direct attack on progressives. Sure win for the Republicans there.
It's another addition to the MIC. Sure win for the Republicans there.
It's another systematic violation of liberty to get used to. Sure win for the Republicans there.
It's another example of ignoring problem behavior and dividing people up into castes instead. Sure win for the Republicans there.