Ask Florida how it worked down there? Around 95% of recipients were drug free and Florida taxpayers lost $$$millions paying for their tests (oh, and Rick Scott’s family owned the testing labs)
Drug testing should be required, however, of all White House staff, agency heads, & Cabinet members. They have our future in their hands, and I, for one, prefer they not be substance abusers.
Technically, under the still apparently active Reagan EO, the Agency heads probably have the authority to require it for most employees right now (and definitely for Musk, as he meets both the sensitive position and obvious user tests).
Wow. I had no idea. Wouldn’t those results be interesting. The Press Sec always looks like she dropped in at Dr Feel-good’s office on her way to the podium.
I saw this in the Under The Bridge episode of @datelinenbc.bsky.social. The elite did nothing but hard drugs every night, even in front of CCTV. Oh, but that was considered Posh.
You have an extremely valid point. Threatening to refuse them food reminds me of when I was in a cancer support group. There as a woman there with lung cancer who had been a smoker. She deserved to get sick and die about as much as I did. And to be clear, no one deserves to die from cancer. No one.
We need to drug test Elon and Trump. That whole administration. Definitely DJT. Jr., Kimberly Gargoyle. Oh yeah they definitely need a test or two, holding the positions they do. But not people on food stamps.
Sounds like something they’d do under Christian Sharia Law…doesn’t it….Christian Nationalists putting out their icky little tentacles into our legal system…🙀😳😩
The reason we lost the expanded child tax credit? Joe Manchin (Disgrace-WV) was convinced that large numbers of parents were using it to buy drugs rather than help their kids (which, of course, is bullshit).
I have to say tho, that there should b a way where they can’t turn around and sell them tho. I know many people that would sell their food stamps for cash instead of using them. So I do get it from THAT standpoint, but NO! They should NOT b excluded from eligibility.
I was going to apply for WIC after giving birth to twins. Low ranked military don’t make much. They wanted to do blood tests to see if my babies were malnourished. I said no one needed to put more needles in them. We got by somehow without their help.
They wanted to test your babies to see if they were malnourished in order to qualify for our cooperative program meant to ensure that nobody goes hungry?
I am so sorry. How are we so terrible to new moms and new babies?
You’re a veteran, you deserved that food to just show up.
No, I was a military spouse then later a long time DoD civilian. I thought it was pretty pathetic too. Those kind of stupid rules need to be removed. But, no one is looking for them.
Military spouses sacrifice so much to make sure our military system works. The idea that you were recovering from growing and birthing two babies, and were worried about having enough nutrition to keep your family fed, breaks my heart. You deserved better, mama.
Ah… I politely disagree.
They chose this life, just like they chose everything they could’ve sidestepped 4 a better quality of life.
Like the eejit who gets dozens of tattoos while his children r running around in nothing more than soiled diapers.
I’ve seen ppl w/ trucks bigger than their shacks!
Drug testing should only be required if it places those that have substance abuse problems in a good rehab facility. Which is 100% what we should do with homeless people that do that shit in the parking lot of every store i ever go to as well.
So we should use force on people to go to rehab?
We don't have enough shelters for people without drug issues but suddenly there will be enough rehab beds for people not ready to go?
Or we could just deny them food
And my example of smoking crack in the walgreen parking lot? Every day here. It's also why the walgreens is completely locked down like fort knox, because they steal from it every day. It's also why the neighborhood across the street is number 1 in home invasions in the city.
If they are breaking the law, then yes, forced rehab is the best policy. We can't have people out on lawn chairs smoking crack in the Walgreens parking lot in the middle of the day.
We have plenty of shelters in my city for people with and without drug issues. If we can do it, anyone can.
If they are breaking the law they arrest them and throw them in jail, where they violently detox. Then they get out and do it again.
Withholding food is never an answer.
Btw repeated studies show force rehab does not work.
Decriminalization of use and possession of drugs for personal use. In 2022, the Norwegian Supreme Court ruled that people suffering from drug addiction are no longer subject to fines if caught using illegal drugs or possessing drugs for personal use.Mar 10, 2023
I don't want them to withhold food at all. I want them to feed them extremely well, but I don't want them in jail. I want them in rehab. A rehab designed exactly for people like them.
Letting them sit on the streets or sending them to prison doesn't work.
Conclusion
There is limited scientific literature evaluating compulsory drug treatment. Evidence does not, on the whole, suggest improved outcomes related to compulsory treatment approaches, with some studies suggesting potential harms.
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Huge failure
Cost the state when 99% of the tests came back negative & FL had to reimburse all who passed
See, he had them tested at his wife’s lab & charged his constituents for the privilege
Meantime Scott paid the highest fine in history for defrauding Medicare
The law is there. The willpower isn’t.
I am so sorry. How are we so terrible to new moms and new babies?
You’re a veteran, you deserved that food to just show up.
https://bsky.app/profile/chedo-b.bsky.social/post/3liprv2dgts2s
They chose this life, just like they chose everything they could’ve sidestepped 4 a better quality of life.
Like the eejit who gets dozens of tattoos while his children r running around in nothing more than soiled diapers.
I’ve seen ppl w/ trucks bigger than their shacks!
We don't have enough shelters for people without drug issues but suddenly there will be enough rehab beds for people not ready to go?
Or we could just deny them food
We have plenty of shelters in my city for people with and without drug issues. If we can do it, anyone can.
Withholding food is never an answer.
Btw repeated studies show force rehab does not work.
Has a total of 3700 homeless people (0.7% of the pop). Among the lowest.
Guess what they do to drug addicted homeless people? They force them to go to rehab. They don't send them to prison.
Letting them sit on the streets or sending them to prison doesn't work.
There is limited scientific literature evaluating compulsory drug treatment. Evidence does not, on the whole, suggest improved outcomes related to compulsory treatment approaches, with some studies suggesting potential harms.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4752879/