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Trey Radel votes for drug testing for food stampers, busted with cocaine
Posted on 11/20/14 at 9:33 am
Posted on 11/20/14 at 9:33 am
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If the government's going to make sure recipients of taxpayer-funded benefits are clean, the argument went, then why not also make sure the recipients of taxpayer salaries are clean, too?
In June, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) made that very suggestion when he questioned why recipients of crop insurance and other government benefits weren't also targeted for drug tests like people on food stamps.
"Why don't we drug test all the members of Congress here," McGovern said shortly before the drug-testing measure passed. "Force everybody to go urinate in a cup or see whether or not anybody is on drugs? Maybe that will explain why some of these amendments are coming up or why some of the votes are turning out the way they are."
Radel apologized Tuesday for his cocaine bust and said he'd seek treatment.
"I struggle with the disease of alcoholism, and this led to an extremely irresponsible choice," he said.
If the government's going to make sure recipients of taxpayer-funded benefits are clean, the argument went, then why not also make sure the recipients of taxpayer salaries are clean, too?
In June, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) made that very suggestion when he questioned why recipients of crop insurance and other government benefits weren't also targeted for drug tests like people on food stamps.
"Why don't we drug test all the members of Congress here," McGovern said shortly before the drug-testing measure passed. "Force everybody to go urinate in a cup or see whether or not anybody is on drugs? Maybe that will explain why some of these amendments are coming up or why some of the votes are turning out the way they are."
Radel apologized Tuesday for his cocaine bust and said he'd seek treatment.
"I struggle with the disease of alcoholism, and this led to an extremely irresponsible choice," he said.
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Posted on 11/20/14 at 9:36 am to BayouBlitz
Are you unable to see the difference between someone working for a living and someone asking for government money that might be used to fund their drug habit?
Posted on 11/20/14 at 9:42 am to BayouBlitz
Haven't you posted this before?
Even if you haven't, it's old news.
Even if you haven't, it's old news.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 9:45 am to BayouBlitz
shoot, test them too, I dont care. just dont hand out Taxpayer money like its candy. I get deeply offended when people sit out front of Walmart and offer me $100 in food stamps for 50 US Dollars.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 10:16 am to TigerMyth36
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Are you unable to see the difference between someone working for a living and someone asking for government money that might be used to fund their drug habit?
What about farmers getting paid for not growing crops?
Either way, anybody getting taxpayer money should get tested. And I hardly call what Congress does 'working'.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 10:22 am to BayouBlitz
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Either way, anybody getting taxpayer money should get tested. And I hardly call what Congress does 'working'.
Say what you want to about Congressmen but they had to go out campaign and win the votes. No one just handed them the job. Anyone is free to apply for that job.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 10:26 am to BayouBlitz
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What about farmers getting paid for not growing crops?
What about subsidies for health insurance?
Posted on 11/20/14 at 10:31 am to TigerMyth36
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Are you unable to see the difference between someone working for a living and someone asking for government money that might be used to fund their drug habit?
This - If you are getting up, going to work everyday and performing your job duties as your employer expects than who cares what you are buying to put in your body.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 10:32 am to TigerMyth36
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someone working for a living
I consider career politicians just as big of leeches as those regular citizens who gobbler up government benefits.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 10:46 am to Crimson Mafia IIIX
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going to work everyday and performing your job duties as your employer expects
Well, that's not the Congress or Senate.
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who cares what you are buying to put in your body.
I would think any employer would care that they have employed a coke head.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 11:08 am to BayouBlitz
Such an ignorant post.
Was this guy getting foodstamps fool? / thread.
Was this guy getting foodstamps fool? / thread.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 11:11 am to BayouBlitz
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11/19/13 07:21 PM ET
Your story is a year old, Newshound.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 11:16 am to TigerMyth36
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Are you unable to see the difference between someone working for a living and someone asking for government money that might be used to fund their drug habit?
Well.... he receives money from the taxpayers as well lol....I think they should all be fucming drug tested. Every last one of em. They making laws.. I'd hate for them to be loaded out doing so
Posted on 11/20/14 at 11:28 am to BayouBlitz
DUDE.
Old news, and everyone in DC laughed at Radel when he was stumping his idea.
It was not a secret that Radel loved the columbian snow. Easiest move the narcs in DC ever performed was getting that dude to buy from them.
Old news, and everyone in DC laughed at Radel when he was stumping his idea.
It was not a secret that Radel loved the columbian snow. Easiest move the narcs in DC ever performed was getting that dude to buy from them.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 11:47 am to Godfather1
Did he buy the cocaine with food stamps?
I don't give a shite if CNN caught him on camera snorting a line as long as a football field. That has NOTHING to do with the fact that foodstamp, welfare, medicaid, and disability recipients should have MANDATORY drug testing.
Anyone that disagrees with this is either a druggie themselves or a moron.
I don't give a shite if CNN caught him on camera snorting a line as long as a football field. That has NOTHING to do with the fact that foodstamp, welfare, medicaid, and disability recipients should have MANDATORY drug testing.
Anyone that disagrees with this is either a druggie themselves or a moron.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 11:52 am to BayouBlitz
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I struggle with the disease of alcoholism
This statement drives me bananas, I love how recategorizing things as illnesses is this new fun way of taking away personal responsibility. Whatever happened to people just fricking up or being frick ups. Then he proceeds to following it up with another gem:
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and this led to an extremely irresponsible choice
He didn't lead himself to the irresponsible choice...alcoholism did. Blame something else because you're not man enough to own up to things, that's what the world has come to.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 1:02 pm to S.E.C. Crazy
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S.E.C. Crazy
Did they turn on the interwebs in the nut house again?
Get back on your meds, son. You shite house rat crazy mofo.
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