Thursday, September 29, 2011
Oh Carl's a wicked pisser all right!
Carl Hiaasen, well known author and columnist for the Miami Herald, put out a challenge on the Rachel Maddow Show last night. He has offered to pay for the drug tests of all the Florida legislators who voted for drug testing welfare applicants. So far the program tests have cost far more than any savings that have resulted.
“Interestingly, the governor’s pee-in-the-cup mandate doesn’t apply to the one bunch that whizzes away more tax dollars than anyone else — the legislators who pass such useless laws,” Hiassen wrote in a recent column. “I say line up all 160 of ‘em for a patriotic whiz-fest at the Capitol clinic. You think more than 2.5 percent might test positive? Let’s find out. And I’ll pay for it out of my own pocket. Seriously.”How could anyone refuse a free drug test? Probably most of the Republican/Teabaggers can, many with good reason.
Welfare repents were “an easy target,” he explained during an interview with Maddow Wednesday. “This is class warfare. This is picking on the folks who happen to be unemployed, especially the ones with children. And they are testing at such a lower rate than the general population. The most recent federal drug survey shows national drug use at about 8.9 percent — almost nine percent. These people are living like monks compared to them.”
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