re: #356 Lidane

Maine Gov: Let’s Drug Test Welfare Recipients

I wish someone would explain this malarkey to me. How does it solve anything to randomly drug test people on welfare? Isn’t that just a colossal waste of government resources? Besides, it’s been struck down as unconstitutional before. What’s the point?

The idea is that you can identify the undeserving poor through a pee test, and refuse to give them any more money.

The problem is that, IIRC, when they’ve done it, it turns out that only a tiny percentage of people on welfare are also on illegal drugs. So they spend more on the tests than they save kicking people off the rolls, and they piss off all the welfare recipients who had to go through this humiliating crap to get a check to tide them over hard times.