Good Grief – Shouldn’t drug testing be mandatory for all?
For The Vista
Read a couple of articles recently that claimed it would be unfair, even unconstitutional, to make drug testing mandatory for welfare recipients.
The rationale used in both articles was: If Judges and lawyers and other big shots (JLOBS) don’t have to submit to drug testing then it is discriminatory to make welfare recipients submit to drug testing. WHAT?
As they say in Tennessee, “don’t drink that yeller stuff, it ain’t lemonade. “
Of course the straight thinkers like us, maybe in the minority now, realize that the Judges and other big shots (JLOBS) actually earn the money they spend.
Sure it’s just as illegal for them to buy drugs as anyone else but at least their spending money they earned.
Welfare recipients, on the other hand, are spending money given to them by us taxpayers. In other words, they did not earn it. So why should they be allowed to use that free money to buy drugs and support the local drug dealers ?
Another argument I read claims that it is clearly unconstitutional to use welfare drug testing. Well, fact is, there have been some Judges in other states that have ruled just that.
How in the name of Tebow they ever arrived at such decisions is surely a mystery. The Constitution says no such thing. By now we’re all so conditioned to liberal judges and their looney rulings that the operative phrase seems to have become, “Get over it.”
I can’t get over it.
I have been retired for many years. Over that time I have had numerous part time jobs. Every single time I applied for a job during that time I had to take a drug test. Every dadgum time.
Why then can some folks possibly think it is a bad thing for welfare recipients and unemployment recipients to submit to the same testing?
There are at least two bills “in process” at the legislature that will require drug testing if they pass. HB1289 from State Rep. Butt and HB0230 from State Rep. Dunn. An E-mail or a call to your State Rep. might just do some good.
Jim Arber is a Fairfield Glade resident and part-time leisure professional. He can be reached at [email protected].