Comments about ‘Drug tests for public assistance would fight addictions’

Orrin, I'm 100% in favor of mandatory drug testing recipients of federal dollars.

Let's start with the congress (both houses, including staff), then all federal contractors and the officers and employees of corporations receiving subsidies, tax breaks and grants.

Our goal is to prevent taxpayer dollars from supporting individual drug addictions, right?

Let's get going, Orrin!

Here's your plastic cup, and there's the restroom.

What are you waiting for?

It's time to show us some leadership-by-example!

You betcha a drug test for all applicants for welfare, not just the new ones only would be a good thing. But NOT for unemployment insurance because it's a waste of public monies because it's up to the employer to screen before hire and if they get hurt on the job workers comp does that already. The illegal's here take advantage to this, they bring in the drug's and set up dope houses, get caught then sign up for a drug abuse and addiction program here and that's a are serious problems that often lead to criminal activity and may need to be managed with outside treatment options. If assistance recipients know the only way they can access federal and state assistance is through a drug test, they'll go to a head-shop and buy something that would counter that teas so they'll pass it, and certainly there will never be a good proportion of the population who will self-identify their problem and seek treatment options. The "what's that going to cost us" countless Utahns who have contacted Hatch don't know what they are talking about fully here.

Agreed.

Lets test for Medicare and Medicaid recipients also.

Senator Orrin Hatch favors small government when he's making speeches, but in real life, he apparently sees no problem with using taxpayer money to implement a big new program that would dramatically intrude on the privacy of American citizens.

This is exactly the sort of disconnect that hurt the Republican Party during the Bush Administration and ever since.

This is why people do not take republicans serious. they say "I am for government getting out of peoples private life's unless of course the government its insuring that everyone lives by my standards. Heaven forbid someone receive aid that I do not deem the 'worthy."

Drug testing only combats addiction if you provide counseling to those who test positive.

I like th picking and choosing too. Picking things they won't be affected by even though they are also recieving federal dollars.

Test the military, test the school teachers, test ALL politicians for sure, especially Hatch. He is either on medication or needs some.

And if your life is ruiend by a false positive, too bad. Especially if you are a politician. Poppyseed muffin Mr. Hatch?

RE: Screwdriver | 5:28 p.m. June 27, 2010
Poppyseed muffin Mr. Hatch along with a cup of tea?. Utah's children will have to be educated to do jobs other than in dirty fossil fuels. They should learn more science and rely less on feel-good religion so they can understand ecology and the balance of nature. Hey Hatch, test the school teachers, test ALL politicians for sure, especially yourself to. And if your life is ruiend by a false positive, too bad. Especially if you are a politician.





Reply: So true.

Well one thing for certain is that we have no shortage of bad ideas coming from Orrin. He is starting to raise kissing up to the ultra reich to a new level.

All the money that is spent on social programs (food stamps, afdc) comes nowhere close to the one trillion dollars that we paid out to rich banks and wall street.
Also the one trillion dollars that is spent each year for social security and medicare.
The real welfare queens in this country are the ultrarich.

Usually I wonder what is going through Hatch's mind, but every once in a while he pulls an idea like this out of the hat. Great idea, if you are getting public assistance, the public has every right to know their tax money isn't being abused.