An article by Michael King entitled “Point Austin: We Want Your
Urine”www.austinchronicle.com caught my attention the other day.
Apparently Perry is attempting to pass a bill which will start welfare recipients
and unemployed workers to have to take drug tests in order to receive benefits. While Perry fights the US government for states’
rights to decide how he wants medical coverage and same sex marriage to go, he
pisses on the poor and needy by violating their rights.
Now these are people out of work, sick, elderly, or one
parent households. These people need assistants. They are not forming at the mouth fends nor
are they riding the revolving doors of incarceration for drug offenses. They are regular Americans who have been
dealt a bad hand. These are people who
need and deserve a second chance at the American dream.
The good ole boys of congress can attempt to justify their
actions by saying it will only be used in pacific cases, but we all know what
that mean; stereotype.
Jason Stanford said, “In Texas, we pay welfare moms with
three kids $260 a month. In other words, our welfare moms don't have enough
money to buy drugs or enough time to take them. But don't worry, Rick Perry has
a solution for a problem that doesn't exist: He wants to make welfare
recipients take drug tests.” www.huffingtonpost.com
A.G. Sulzberger of The New York Times www.newyorktimes.com added, “Advocates for
the poor say the testing policies single out and vilify victims of the
recession, disputing the idea that people on public assistance are more likely
to use drugs. They also warn that to the extent that testing programs were
successful in blocking some people from receiving benefits, the inability to
get money for basic needs would aggravate drug addictions and increase demand
for treatment”.
Basically our blundering bureaucracy has done it again. While our good ole boys in congress fight
tooth and nail to separate the state from the union, fight to preserve gun
rights, and fight to stop same sex marriage, it seems they still have time to
piss on the commoners.
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