Here's What Happened When 7 States Spent $1 Million Drug Testing Welfare Recipients

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From: The David Pakman Show

[ProudProg2u]

1. Reason # 3,987 to ...

Tar and Feather all the RepubliCON governors,and All the RepukeCON Politicians.

[midnight]

2. Wisconsin Gop jumped on this bandwagon too. I believe to facilitate the cultural message that

those not working are lazy drug addicts. However there was an equal push back on this M.O. and that was to drug test other's receiving any benefits too. I.E. govt. contracts, govt. salaries… etc… I want to hear that this drug testing of those is being rolled out…

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3. What is more important is that the test is imperfect.

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And that of those 48 who tested positive in Missouri, it is likely that a large chunk of them are false positives. That just falls out of the statistics and will be always true when screening a population with any such imperfect test. When you are screening a population for a relatively rare trait (e.g., drug use) with an imperfect test, the false positives must overwhelm the positive results. It's just math.

That is not an argument you hear very often, probably because we have a math illiterate populace.

R&

[Doc Holliday]

5. Not trying to be

a smart-ass here, but "populous" is an adjective... "populace" is the noun. (I'm sure that there is an actual word out there that means what you apparently meant by "math illiterate", but I don't know what it is.)

Carry on.

[longship]

6. Sorry, I stand corrected.

I am not offended by pedantry. I embrace it myself on occasion. So, carry on.


My best regards.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. I know a RW idiot who calls homeless people "heroin addicts"....

Because God is punishing them for their sins.

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7. KnR nt

[The Jungle 1]

8. we must help the poor

Christ did not ask us to help the poor.
He demanded we help the poor.
He said nothing about judging the poor first.
He made it real clear who would do the judging.
It ain't us.

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9. If they tested positive for drugs

and the state denies them their welfare check, that still leaves the person broke. A broke drug addict is likely to go steal stuff or do illegal activities to get money. So it doesn't solve anything.