Law would require drug test for unemployment assistance

I dont agree with it ether im just telling you what the right is up to in georgia.If they pass it here watch out everywhere else.dont 1 star me.I just posted what was in the news today.According to cnn it was to includ food stamps also.You guys are worried about helth care for the poor .There just gonna starve us and our children.They can make a test say anything they want to.Plus they want to charge you to take it.Thats some bs.

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A Toccoa legislator is sponsoring a bill to require random drug testing of recipients of unemployment compensation benefits and other government assistance.

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.HB 1389, sponsored by Rep. Michael Harden, would require that the cost of the drug test be paid by the recipient or deducted from his or her benefits. Failing the drug test could result in a loss of benefits.

Harden's proposal calls for the Georgia labor commissioner to conduct annual random drug testing of unemployment benefit recipients.

Those testing positive for use of "marijuana, dangerous drugs, or a controlled substance" would be tested a second time, according to the bill.

Anyone failing a mandated second test would lose their benefits -- and the ability to apply for benefits -- for two years.

Refusing to submit to drug testing also would make a person ineligible for benefits, according to the bill.

Harden said Tuesday that the intent of the legislation is to “level the playing field” since most of the employed are subject to drug testing.

He said the cost of the drug test would be about $20 and that it could be paid, if necessary, in installments so it would not be a burden to any individual.

Georgia's unemployment rate currently is 10.8 percent, the highest on record and among the highest in the United States.

Use "Urine Luck" works EVERY TIME!!

FUCK the Government.

You want to know the REAL reason why they don't want you to smoke pot? Because it coats the nerve ganglii in your brain and prevent ELF waves from altering your conscious thought.

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20.00... which they may allow you to pay in installments?!

Can you say -REVOLUTION-?

Remember when they FIRST started this Bullshit drug testing in America... I think it was the early or mid 80's.

Some people were smart enough to say : 'No. You have no right'. But the Govmint, lucky as they always are with such things, had an engineer or subway driver somewhere supposedly 'on drugs' who crashed and killed innocent passengers.

The govment said: "we will ONLY do these tests where it is a matter of Life and Death... Pilots, Engineers, etc."

Then, the media did 'Investigative Reports' and came out with stories about truck drivers: "Oh, 97% or so of all truck drivers on the road are out of their minds on PCP, Crack, or Heroin." Then, ''Bus driver high on Speed kills 12".

So OK, we'll just have to drug test people with commercial licenses.

Then, some dickwads running public schools somewhere said:
"It is a privledge to play sports in high school. 97% of the kids in our local school are out of their minds on Mushrooms. We need drug testing!"

So OK, we'll just test kids if they wish to play sports, act in plays, be on the debate team, science team, whatever. It will keep kids safe!

So it used to be 'drug tests if you want to work.'

Now, it is 'drug tests if you can't find work'.

Anything to penalize the lower and middle classes.
Now damn near everyone is tested. Know who should face mandatory drug tests on a weekly, if not daily basis? ALL LAWMAKERS!!! ALL LAWYERS!! ALL JUDGES!!! THey all think they are important. But they are never important enough for mandatory testing!

You sir, win the internet. So fucking true. So fucking true.

Politicians can't pay their taxes and can't take drug tests... but it's ok for them to take payoffs... no wonder the country's in the toilet.

Outstanding they should drug test all the federal and state employees also.

By the way I posted this a day or two earlier and now it's gone!!!!!

Grea idea!!!!!!!! Do hair follicle tests.

Ditto for collecting welfare and child support.

And worker's comp.

doesn't drug testing cost a lot though?

Fine with me. I dont do drugs so I dont care.

Not as much as smoked up fools sponging off society.