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From the Miami Herald:
Scott signs bill forcing drug tests on welfare recipients
Floridians will have to submit urine, blood or hair samples for drug testing before receiving cash benefits from the state, under a bill Gov. Rick Scott signed into law today.
"The goal of this is to make sure we don't waste taxpayers' money," Scott said. "And hopefully more people will focus on not using illegal drugs."
Taxpayers will reimburse welfare applicants for negative drug tests. Positive tests will carry an immediate ban on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families for six months. A second positive test will result in a three-year ban on state assistance.
Other details in the new law:
• The Department of Children and Families must inform applicants that they can avoid a drug test if they do not apply for benefits.
• The state must assure each applicant "a reasonable degree of dignity while producing and submitting a sample."
• Parents who fail drug tests can get benefits for their children by naming a state-approved designee to collect the money. That designee must also pass a drug test.
ACLU Florida has suggested they might sue the state over the new law. A statement from the group's state director today did not mention legal action, but said they would have an announcement tomorrow about Scott's executive order forcing drug tests on state employees.
"Once again, this governor has demonstrated his dismissal of both the law and the right of Floridians to personal privacy by signing into law a bill that treats those who have lost their jobs like suspected criminals," Howard Simon said in his statement. "This wasteful program created by this law subjects Floridians who are impacted by the economic downturn, as well as their families, to a humiliating search of their urine and body fluids without cause or even suspicion of drug use."
About 233,000 Floridians applied for cash assistance in 2009-10, including 114,000 families, according to DCF statistics. This month, 93,170 Floridians received cash assistance, a drop of 8.3 percent from a year ago.
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2011/05/scott-signs-bill-forcing-drug-tests-on-welfare-recipients.html
Kevin Hayden of Truth_Is_Treason comments:
I’ve been advocating this since the first year of my police career. Here I am seven years later, a police officer-turned-political activist and I still fully support it. Receiving state aid is not a right due to it infringing upon others; forcibly costing other taxpayers part of their hard earned money under threat of fine, arrest or violence.
I’ve seen what poverty and a lack of education does to people. It creates generations of poverty dependant on the system. In many cases – not all, mind you – but typically, drugs are involved to a degree at some point. I’ve never met a clean-shaven, non-drinking, non-drug-using, educated man on state aid unless it were an emergency or on a temporary basis. The decades-long and sometimes generational use of state aid has got to stop. Maybe this will help.
Mind you, a big reason I resigned from the police force was due to a strong disagreement with the War on Drugs. However, this is not punishment for doing drugs nor would I even consider it a part of the War on Drugs. If you require welfare to provide for your children, you better not be spending money on alcohol OR drugs. OR Burger King, for that matter. Your money – OUR taxpayer-funded-aid – needs to be purchasing quality food, clothing and shelter, that’s it. And it should be on a temporary basis.
If you have an extra $20 to purchase a bag of weed with, your welfare should be stripped from you because apparently, you now have positive cash flow above and beyond your needs.
http://www.truthistreason.net/florida-signs-law-requiring-welfare-recipients-to-pass-drug-tests-haydens-note-attached
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