re: Wisconsin moves ahead with plan to drug test applicants for food stamps

I like it in theory, but not in practice.

They typically test so crappily that those being tested can easily avoid testing positive. It ends up being a wasteful joke. Besides, ain’t nothing wrong with pot.

Nothing wrong with pot....


EXCEPT when I am paying for a POS bum to sit at home and smoke it.. with no job and welfare and food stamps coming in every month.

If only this stopped the consumption of Alcohol.

We get mad if someone smokes, but never bring up Alcohol.

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If only this stopped the consumption of Alcohol.

We get mad if someone smokes, but never bring up Alcohol.

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I don't care what people do it they aren't on the gubment dime.

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Most people on welfare aren't on drugs. They're just lazy POS.

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are you kidding?

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But seriously, people are questioning the cost of a drug test versus the multiple hundreds of dollars given per month on food stamps?

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So in this case, you are for a bloated government solution to a bloated government problem? Because these programs have never proven to do anything except waste time and money. If there's a successful program like this, I'm open to looking at it.

I think it's a bad idea and waste of money. Just encourages fraud.

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Uummm Uuuummmm Show me where it is legal to buy alcohol with food stamps?

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He's not saying people are using EBT to buy alcohol, just that alcoholism is a problem and in Wisconsin it's a huge issue that rarely gets discussed because of the strength of the Tavern League.

I believe Mississippi has been doing this for about 5 years.

One year we had 12 people test positive. Then they went thru counseling and were approved.

Weed narrative?

Where the hell are you getting that from?

You're just making shite up to be a pain and that's fine. I'm from WI originally, my family still lives there. I go home about once a year and while drugs, mostly meth, are an issue that's noticeable because it's new, Alcoholism is a way bigger beast than the drugs and has been for a very very long time. We joke about it and chalk it up to some kind of cultural norm, which it sort of is, but its exacerbated by the Tavern League's influence at the state level.

I care because I have skin in the game, not because of Marijuana.

I'm not saying that they shouldn't test for drugs, I don't care. If they can prove that a large portion of recipients are abusing drugs and that this is somehow cost effective for the state then go ahead...but they should be testing their BAC while they're at it.

I'm most bothered because Meth is a problem but this isn't going to solve it, this is just to score points on some kind of National Conservative scoreboard of coolness. It doesn't help anything. That it's being posted here, and people's reactions to it, is proof of that.