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View Poll Results: What % of Welfare Recipients will be cut off when they get tested for drugs?
10% will be cut off 10 16.67%
20% will be cut off 16 26.67%
50% will be cut off 18 30.00%
90% will be cut off 5 8.33%
Welfare Recipients don't use drugs. 4 6.67%
The testing is wrong, let them use drugs or smoke weed. 3 5.00%
Are we talking about Meth or Weed? 4 6.67%
Voters: 60. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 04-11-2013, 04:31 AM
 
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Test Positive and lose your Bennies..

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Old 04-11-2013, 06:19 AM
 
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Not even 10%. Probably not even 5%...

Obviously you have no experience with urine drug screens on welfare/medicaid patients. We only take medicaid patients that our neurosurgeons have "collected" on call. I would say that 90% are dismissed from our practice over the course of one year due to illegal drugs on their UDS. It is shocking, but consistent. They are a drug soaked population, thus thier state in life.
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Old 04-11-2013, 06:23 AM
 
Location: Columbia, SC
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What % of Welfare Recipients do you think will be cut off when they get tested for drugs?

Senate approves drug tests for welfare recipients | Trail Blazers Blog
My guess would be less than 3%.

I wonder how many members of Congress could pass a random drug and alcohol test given in the miiddle of the afternoon?
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Old 04-11-2013, 06:27 AM
 
Location: Dallas
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What % of Welfare Recipients do you think will be cut off when they get tested for drugs?
I don't care. They should not be tested.

Why do you care what they buy with your money? They can waste your money on a thousand things, so why just test for drugs?
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Old 04-11-2013, 06:28 AM
 
Location: USA
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Almost as many would come up dirty as if you tested Stockbrokers on Wall Street.
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Old 04-11-2013, 06:32 AM
 
Location: Londonderry, NH
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Be certain to include all the military suppliers, Federal contractors and employees, drug company executrices, health insurance and all the rest taking federal or state money for fun and profit.
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Old 04-11-2013, 06:35 AM
 
Location: DFW
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Two, they get to "feel good" that they're doing something about the non-existent problem of welfare drug abusers.
If it's a non existent problem, what's the problem ?

It might even encourage a few to stay clean so they don't lose their benefits or can hold a job. What we'll hear though is "What about the kids".
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Old 04-11-2013, 06:46 AM
 
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OP could have taken twenty seconds to google the answer.
Welfare Drug Testing Yields a Two Percent Positive Rate.

In Florida you got 2% of welfare recipients testing positive for illegal drugs and another 2% who didn't comply with the testing requirements. That is waaay less than the illegal drug usage rate among the general population. So these testing schemes are nothing more than expensive, unnecessary programs put in place to allow people not on welfare to show their superiority and power over the poors.
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Old 04-11-2013, 06:53 AM
 
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OP could have taken twenty seconds to google the answer.
Welfare Drug Testing Yields a Two Percent Positive Rate.

In Florida you got 2% of welfare recipients testing positive for illegal drugs and another 2% who didn't comply with the testing requirements. That is waaay less than the illegal drug usage rate among the general population. So these testing schemes are nothing more than expensive, unnecessary programs put in place to allow people not on welfare to show their superiority and power over the poors.

Au contraire-

A "drug test' depends on what drug test you are using. One gets what you pay for.

The UDS we use in our clinic is very good; again, about 90% of the medicaid patients we check over the course of a year are dismissed due to illegal drugs in their urine. This, of course, is the welfare population. Once a year "spot checking" can be dodged (pot stays in the urine one month) and unwitnessed drug screens can be substituted. One gets different results with frequent, random, witnessed UDS testing with high sensititivity assays.

Drug use among those of lower socio-economic class is much more common.

http://epirev.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/1/36.full

Your contention that illegal drug use is lower among those on welfare is completely wrong and in contrast to the published facts.
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Old 04-11-2013, 07:14 AM
 
Location: Texas
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I see one person voted 90%....wow...

That's pretty extreme don't ya think? Almost as fool hearty as the two people who voted 'Welfare Recipients don't use drugs.'
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