Guilty until proven innocent – It’s the antithesis of our criminal justice system.
Guilty until proven innocent – It’s the standard that is being applied to welfare and unemployment recipients who are being forced to pee in a cup.
Guilty until proven innocent – It’s a standard that should be applied to all if any.
Guilty until proven innocent – That’s the standard I am applying to all lawmakers who advocate peeing in a cup.
Guilty until proven innocent – That’s the standard I am applying to Rick Scott, Governor of Florida and one of the founders of one of Florida’s drug testing labs, labs that profit from mandatory pee in a cup laws. (besides, those tweaked-out deer in the headlight eyes are awfully suspicious).
The Daily Show agrees with me. On Thursday’s show, Aasif Mandvi confronted Scott and one other lawmaker, offering them a cup. They both refused. As tax-paid government employees, we must assume that they are guilty until proven innocent.
Video here:
For now, the Constitution is winning out. A federal judge has halted mandatory drug tests.
I have always been offended by the pre-employment drug screening process. However,there are several federal, state,and local government positions that I do believe should require pre-screening as well as random screening while on the job or in office. I think, all voted in government folks should have to drop. I think all drivers of any type of government vehicles should drop; police cars, fire trucks, ambulances, city buses, heavy equipment, etc. I think anyone in positions working with our children should drop; all school faculty, principals, teachers, counselors, etc.and most especially school bus drivers. I believe if any refuse or fail to pass,they should be immediately removed from their position, have to pay for the test, and be barred from obtaining government jobs for a time. I also assert that these screens do not need cost as much as they do. I mean, how hard is it to stick a litmus into a cup of pee. The service should be bid for like any other government contract. As an option it could be considered pre-employment fees and paid for by the would-be employee, to be reimbursed after a time on the job.
Pretty telling not a single Teabag idiot has come on here to defend this piece of excrement. How in God’s green earth did this evil sack of crazy get elected gov? Are Republicans really that bereft of compassion, critical-thinking skills, self-awareness of hypocrisy, and just plain common sense? (I know, I know, rhetorical question).
So how about it “fiscally responsible Republicans”? Answer me this, how can you justify a program costing $12million that saved $68,000? (and that a bunch went into the gov’s pockets?). Don’t you feel stupid for being rooked?
Or why don’t you just admit that you’re a bunch of racist, “I got mine fark off”, hypocritical, short-sighted fools?
I’m really relishing the decline and eventual downfall of the GOP and conservatism in general.
Oh, and it’s just icing that a large percentage of thse boobs identify themselves as “evangelical Christians” when they are about as far from Jesus’ teachings as Joseph Farking Stalin.
doesnt he own or partially own the testing co as well?? no thought that was a conflict of interest ??
Drop in the cup you mutant asshole. You are not above the laws you pass on us. We are not taking repub shit anymore. You are going to lose big this year.
I have no problem kicking the shit out of repubs. Done playing nice.
Threatening and doing violence in the name of politics is a GOP tactic… and doesn’t make you look cooler behind your computer.
Drop in the cup you fucking mutant asshole. You are not above the fucking laws you pass on us. We are going to put the same pressure on your asses that you put on us. You fucking shits are going to lose big this year. We are not taking your shit anymore. Got it?
Don’t forget, PandoraK, that the law was primarily intended to enrich Rick Scott and his “friends”. I believe that Florida voters need to add mandatory random drug testing of ALL politicians to our state laws, and send U.S. Marshals with the power to immediately arrest any of them who refuse a random request for urinalysis. I’m betting that more than a paltry 2% of our legislators would return positive results, and I’d bet that Rick Scott would be one of the worst.
And wouldn’t it be fun to recall Rick Scott with a cup of pee?
This law was never about the possibility of drug use by those receiving aid, it was about belittling those who need that aid.
Perhaps a documented understanding of the drug culture should be a requirement for any such legislature.