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I dont think it goes far enough. testing should be for everyone receiving benefits of any kind-welfare, food stamps, housing.

If they fail the kids should be taken away from them and placed in good homes until such time as the parent undergoes treatment and demonstates a capacity to raise a child to be independent and successful and provide for him/her in a sufficient manner.

Rewarding people for having kids they cant afford by giving them free housing, free food, and money is idiocracy

Of course you do. I was waiting for your response on this one.

If the gov't is going to continue to meddle in our lives I want them to stop removing consequences for terrible personal choices. This is a step in the right direction.

Yeah the adoption system is already backlogged, overworked, and underfunded, let's throw a few thousand more kids in there!

There are plenty of programs to help drug addicts who want to help themselves. If you have the means/money to get drugs, though, don't expect the taxpayer to pay for your food or rent.

LMFAO. What kind of person wants peoples kids to be taken away? Are you the grinch or something?

I personally don't like the idea of drug tests. They are too unreliable and too intrusive. Anybody thats ever taken a few drug tests, should know how sensitive they are. I mean, you can fail for eating papi seed bagels and they cant tell the difference. What happens when somebody loses their kids over some shit like that? This sounds like a dumb idea.

I once knew a puerto rican girl who could eat papi seed all day.

Any thoughts as to how much a drug test will cost Florida to administer to all recipients? I am not against this, I am just wondering if all consequences have been considered. Will it truly save money or actually cost more in the end? How frequent will the testing be?

Yeah, because there's no difference between "not wanting to financially support a junkie" and "wanting to kill all blacks"

LOL I was listening to Pun on the way home. Hahaha.

CCterp has a point. Plus drug tests are expensive, and inaccurate. This is in all liklihood just another waste of money and another case of rich people fucking with poor people. Im all for social services getting tipped off if an irresponsible parent is smoking crack instead of feeding a child. But this will almost certainly end up with people smoking weed taking the brunt of the punishment, and its not even that serious for real. Consider this...when people mention drug tests, its people that smoke herb that have the most to worry about. Its the drug they test for primarily because it stays in your system the longest. Alcoholics, coc users, heroine users...they can all skirt this type of stuff unless they are test regularly.

Horrible Horrible idea, and I'll go as far as to say that anybody that believes in this type of shit needs to leave Maryland immediately.

What do you think will impose a greater burden on taxpayers- welfare recipients using drugs or the (inevitably inefficient and wasteful) government bureaucracy that will have to be established to administer the drug tests?

Lol I sometimes work in an office where parents who's children and taken from them are court ordered for treatment and counseling. About 90% of those individuals should NEVER have children in their homes again. Kinship or foster care would be much better for them and that's pretty sad.