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DU Poll: "Should congressmen be periodically drug tested?"
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Panasonic
(2,921 posts)Usually at midnight.
Surprise inspections.
Dems can test once a month, but if they vote for right-wing legislation, set that person aside for immediate drug testing.
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)monmouth
(21,078 posts)notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)but as long as the little people are required to go through the process, congress critters should too.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)Drug testing in the workplace should ONLY occur with reasonable cause and if it comes back clean, those ordering the test should be fired.
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)require drug testing for all of the little people. Few, I bet.
AzDar
(14,023 posts)Bucky
(53,795 posts)Good heavens no! The practice of dragging criminals behind draught horses is barbaric and untolerable!
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)DJ13
(23,671 posts)But thats just me.
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)who demanded all people getting government "assistance" from welfare, unemployment, to all public employees get drug tested with his "wife's" drug testing company, be the FIRST in line.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)And the drug cops too, they should be tested every day.
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)MysticLynx
(51 posts)yes, only because maybe then we will get rid of these ridiculous stop and frisk laws that disproportionately affect minority and low income youth- effectively making it even harder for them to get jobs. Most companies now have 'drug test ' policies, and many states have passed drug-test laws in order to apply for assistance, some have proposed them even for those applying for unemployment benefits (which most workers have ALREADY paid for in the form of a tax) - Why should our congressional candidates be held to any different standard than the majority of the US workforce faces every time they apply for a job?
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)DollarBillHines
(1,922 posts)Just as every one of them who votes against reproductive choice should go to the top of The Crack Baby Adoption List.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Which wasn't an option so I didn't vote.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)I'm not a fan of random drug testing.
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)Last edited Sat Sep 29, 2012, 06:45 PM - Edit history (1)
echelons that make rules for the little people that they skirt around. I wonder how many CEOs and execs. ever get drug tested. Drug testing IMO should only occur "if" these is probable cause and sufficient evidence to warrant drug testing. IMO running everyone through the mill (or at random) is asinine ... but as usual, follow the money trail and someone's making big bucks off of it, probably.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)I used to work in a prison back in the early '80s when random drug testing was first being tried out. I remember one particular inmate telling me then that they were just the guinea pigs, that if it became successful with prisoners, parolees and probationers, it would soon migrate out to the rest of society. Definitely prescient. I consider it really a violation of the Fourth Amendment, especially when it's used randomly without cause.
sad sally
(2,627 posts)RKP5637
(67,030 posts)little people. If what you said did happen, I bet drug testing would be gone in a flash.
quaker bill
(8,223 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,820 posts)factor in all the world's people who are affected by American laws and policies. If the guy working at the sock factory has to be drug tested as a condition of employment, how much more important is it that we make sure that such powerful people are in their right minds? I'll bet we see the end of the War on Drugs before we see such a law passed, however, which is just fine by me.
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)effect billions of people. It only makes sense to me, then, that they be in full control of their faculties. Of course, I also believe candidates for high office and at many levels should somehow ( and that somehow I admit is very difficult) have a personality profile done by a team of independent physicians. I've seen a number of candidates, as well as those in office, wherein I seriously question if they are really playing with a full deck.
In the old days, there was perhaps time to compensate for an impaired individual in high office ... today, there is little time, events happen far too quickly. If one just thinks vaguely about risk analysis, there is a very high potential for very high risk ... from the potential impairment of sound faculties at high levels and with great power.
LuvNewcastle
(16,820 posts)Plenty of Congressmen could use evaluation; James Traficant comes to mind. We've had at least one President with Alzheimer's and I think Dubya's mind was addled from his drugging and boozing days. Supreme Court Justices often stay on the Court until they're elderly; odds are that plenty of them have been at least moderately impaired. Drug tests and mental evaluations should be commonplace for officials with that much power.
porphyrian
(18,530 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)Only those who enable laws that force drug tests on the rest of us.
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)They should have to take an IQ test and undergo psychiatric evaluations.
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)glowing
(12,233 posts)BAC is on any given morning? And he's the head of the Congressional House that makes laws and appropriates money.
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)it should be required even more frequently who can spend $200,000,000 per day...just saying
if you are afraid of the waste of the small welfare dollars we should be much more concerned about the waste of trillions
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)themselves on the back, and skirt the laws they impose on millions. As you said, "... we should be much more concerned about the waste of trillions."
Salviati
(6,002 posts)Elephentine Spongiform Encephalopathy, a progressive condition that affects the brain and nervous system of many conservatives which can lead to:
Dementia (having conversations with inanimate objects, e.g. chairs)
Memory loss (the inability to remember the positions that one held as little as a week prior),
Personality defects (An increased propensity for dickishness, toolishness, and otherwise rampent assholery)
Paranoia (partciulary seeing conspericies involving communists, socialists, elitists, islamists, secularlists, and oftentimes especally incongruous combinations of these groups).