Solely dealing with the idea of cost effectiveness, a thing is cost effective if doing it costs less than not doing it.

For a worst case scenario, let’s assume everyone who would have wanted money from the state agreed to drug testing. They said in the PNJ the other day that 2% failed the test and 2% decided not to go ahead after starting. That would be 4% of those who would have received money from the state or one out of 25.

Thus, the state pays for 24 out of 25 drug tests which would have happened. They say they hope to get drug tests down to $10 each but it looks like current costs are $30 per test. Thirty times 24 equals $720 that the state will pay out in tests of clean recipients for every one which does not become a recipient. Thus, if they would have paid out more than $720 over the course of support, the program would be cost effective in saving Florida tax payers money.

David doing the numbers

Go ahead and drill! Give Americans jobs, take back our country, we don’t want to out source work to foreign countries and we don’t want to buy from them either. Not oil or kids toys or food or anything else. Screw the middle east we don’t need their oil. We have plenty of our own and the intelligence to develope other avenues of energy. Bring our soldiers home. Educate our children. Close our borders. Make us the strongest country in the world, hurry up before we all become an Islamic state.
Sounds good huh?
OK take back our government from all these weaslely wormy thieves we have in various offices(right down to the person at the food stamp office that is practicing racism, don’t act like you don’t know what I’m talking about) demand that intelligent choices are made that benefit the majority, not the special interests. The only people who are doing more than breaking even these days are the politicians, they play on our fears and complacency. Who wanted septic tank inspections? Who says its ok to have the government looking at what prescriptions you get? Who’s business is it? Who thinks it’s cost effective to drug test welfare recipients? The point is folks if you punish the majority who do no wrong in order to catch the few who are criminal we are no longer a free society.
If the criminals want to kill their selves with drugs let them, catch them with the laws we currently have. Its survival of the fittest, the best of us, its what makes us strong. keeps the gene pool clean.
Ok thats my rave this morning….

Conclusion? Not happening

The key word here is “might”. Our nuclear weapons program MIGHT destroy all this. Not funding a program to deflect killer asteroids from Bluff Springs MIGHT destroy all this. Neither is very likely to destroy all this but they MIGHT.

Sometimes you have two different MIGHTs in conflict. Near shore drilling MIGHT do great destruction, but not drilling means tankers will bring in petroleum which MIGHT be spilled and do great destruction. Ship wrecks and terrorist attacks are more likely. Near shore accidents are easier and quicker to fight but closer to places you would not want damaged.

We, the people, have been paying for oil spill containment through a tax on petroleum ever since Exxon Valdez. The money was supposed to go into the Coast Guard’s ability to contain such things.

It should have.

It didn’t.

David for perfect safety
and the tooth fairy