Bill to Drug Test for Welfare Advances in Tennessee House

A proposal to drug test people as a condition for receiving welfare is advancing in the House.

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UnoHoo - 4/24/2012 6:33 PM

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The only people who would be opposed to this are the ones GETTING something from those who DO pay taxes, & have something to HIDE..... MANY companies have random drug testing, and there is a REASON for it......

ReligionStinks - 4/24/2012 1:26 PM

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This is just another easy targeting of poor people by the wealthy elite who use wedge issues to distract voters from real problems. The people who are fleecing this country are not welfare recipients they are the obscenely overpaid CEO's and upper executives of this country who line their pockets with our tax dollars. Make THEM submit to drug tests before they get their CORPORATE WELFARE.

JeffersonTao - 4/24/2012 11:51 AM

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This is a waste of taxpayer money. Just look at Florida where the extremist governor put this in place. The number of failed applicants is 2 percent. Hardly an epidemic or a reason to enact such legislation. This notion that welfare recipients have all this money to spend on drugs is absolutely absurd and born of right-wing hysteria and greed.

anothervoice - 4/24/2012 9:06 AM

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They don't necessarily have to take a drug test to get benefits, its says new applicants would undergo a special screening process. If suspicion is raised after the screening, then the applicant would be drug tested." Who judges the suspicion? They should test all applicants, not just new ones. This is just going to cost us all more money.

emj2740 - 4/24/2012 1:16 AM

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I know, let's cut spending by adding to the debt salies and costs associated with testing people who may have fallen on hard times. Google it, the majority race on welfare are white people and don't all take drugs. I think it is somewhere in the Bible Jesus said 'I will help you my poor child, but pee in this cup first'.

Frayserboi - 4/23/2012 4:23 PM

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Should have always been done from the very beginning....maybe it will cut down on some of the "Entitlement" generations breeding like rabbits just to get more benefits....

UnoHoo - 4/23/2012 4:20 PM

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At least it's a start, IF it passes! Get rid of as many leeches as possible! There are too many who DO need/deserve assistance that CAN'T get it.....

MSLADY57 - 4/23/2012 3:05 PM

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and i'm sure if they know they have to take one to get benefits , they'll stay clean for a week or two knowing they are going to take one..