GOP Congressman: Drug testing for recipients of various welfare programs needs to be considered

[upstatecajun]

GOP Rep. Blake Farenthold Compares Unemployed Americans To Alcoholics And Drug Users

FARENTHOLD: Drug testing for recipients of various welfare programs, I really think that’s something that needs to be considered. We’ve gotta, you know, nobody wants to starve anybody. Everybody wants to help folks out. But we’ve got a system where you can stay on unemployment for an awfully long time. And I think we need to create a system of decreasing benefits over time to encourage you to get a job. I think anybody who’s had an alcoholic in their life or somebody with a drug problem, realizes that until things get bad enough there’s no incentive to change. I think that we’re so generous in some of our social problems that people are unwilling to get a job outside in the heat. Rather than get 15 dollars to go get roofing they’d rather get 9 or 10 dollars in benefits. I think drug testing is not an unreasonable requirement to get benefits.

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/29/blake-farenthold-unemployment-drugs/

[Hotler]

1. You first and every member of your family. Asshole. n/t

[atreides1]

2. Drug testing for members of Congress as well

The US military and law enforcement have to take mandatory drug tests, most employers now require it as well!

So, why not have mandatory drug testing for members of Congress?

[shraby]

3. Since most huge businesses are essentially welfare recipients

also..oil, farming, etc. The heads of those companies need drug testing as well.

[asjr]

4. A pox on his house!

[CurtEastPoint]

5. Hey, Blake, get tested for having at IQ why don'tcha? Nice PJ's.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rfYrR6H3hbQ/TOwzebk2oeI/AAAAAAAAAZY/6YCmXCru1Y0/s1600/blake+farenthold.jpg

[hobbit709]

6. Farenthold used to be a respected political name in TX

May the ghost of his grandmother haunt him continuously.

[Mnemosyne]

7. "Generous"! Fuck you asshole. I know young women with kids trying to survive on $350 per month.

Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

[Tesha]

8. I'm fully supportive of this just as soon as we implement monthly random screening...

...for all Congressional Reps, Senators, and their
immediate families.

For the Reps and Senators, we even have good precedent:
many employers drug test their employees and they are
simply our employees. Their families, of course, might
be a bit of a "reach".

Tesha

[CurtEastPoint]

9. And here's Blakie and the fam. Test them!

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. They passed this in MO just the other day

[Autumn]

11. Drug testing and an intelligence test need to be done

on Congress members and the Senate. And we need to know all of the details in your life too. Fuck you very much.

[WingDinger]

12. Do drug testing on repubs, Empathy drugs,