What's up with this Yahoo article?

[ck4829]

Want government assistance? Just say no to drugs.

Lawmakers in at least eight states want recipients of food stamps, unemployment benefits or welfare to submit to random drug testing.

Blair is proposing the most comprehensive measure in the country, as it would apply to anyone applying for food stamps, unemployment compensation or the federal programs usually known as "welfare": Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and Women, Infants and Children.

On Wednesday, the Kansas House of Representatives approved a measure mandating drug testing for the 14,000 or so people getting cash assistance from the state, which now goes before the state senate. In February, the Oklahoma Senate unanimously passed a measure that would require drug testing as a condition of receiving TANF benefits, and similar bills have been introduced in Missouri and Hawaii. A Florida senator has proposed a bill linking unemployment compensation to drug testing, and a member of Minnesota's House of Representatives has a bill requiring drug tests of people who get public assistance under a state program there.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090326/ap_on_bi_ge/states_welfare_with_strings

I think my computer is messed up, it can't find any proposals of drug testing for leaders of companies that receive bailouts and other forms of corporate welfare.

[amyrose2712]

1. Just another way to keep the money away from the poor

and those that really need it. Not saying only poor people do drugs, but it seems to be more prevalent in lower income areas.

[704wipes]

2. buy stock in testing labs etc if this happens because

those tests aren't cheap and with that in mind, will the COST of testing be figured into the various assistance budgets, hmmmmmm?

[sarge43]

3. Along with CEO's, all candidates for public office

and they pay for the testing out of their own funds. If any score a positive, automatic arrest.

Considering their public statements and proposals, I know some of them are on serious shit.

Yeah, yeah dream on.

[shadowknows69]

4. I know registered nurses who are crack addicts, lawyers that drive drunk all the time

And Taxi drivers that don't even have a driver's license. Where is the scrutiny on these professional's personal lives?