Comments on: State Worker Drug Tests To Wait Until Legal Fight Ends

By: bob hudson

bob hudson — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:34:26 +0000

Well if the state wins, then the lawyers are going to have a field day suing , all the private companies that have be violating our constitutional rights for years! Well I hope they hurry up and approve it, so we can move on to drug testing those who are abusing our welfare system.

By: Big T

Big T — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 01:48:46 +0000

I work for the state. I promise you I can’t afford to buy drugs. Let’s waste more money Rick. When was the last time your boss took 3% out of your pay? TAKE my 3% TAKE my pee what’s next?

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:19:25 +0000

Great health plan and 401K, where do you live? They have a crappy health plan, an HMO because it is cheaper, and they pay outrageous fees for drugs and services.
Their retirement comes out looking like 1/2 of 1% of the highest salary in their last 5 years of employment? Think about that and if you can live on that. The state as always had the ability to drug test it’s employees. Normally they are smart enough to have cause. Even the companies you work for should have cause. The State is government and government should never have the right to take your blood or your urine to do anything with. I say if they want to drug test the employees then lets just drug test everyone who lives in Fla at your own expense. Yeah that is the ticket, TEST everyone!!

By: Barack Reagan

Barack Reagan — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:28:24 +0000

Richie:
Your statement that “…if the tax payers have to pay for people to be employed or pay for them to be on welfare, etc. then everyone of them should be drug tested” is based on a false assumption that keeps getting repeated by conservative republicans ad nauseum. And here’s why:

They aren’t YOUR TAX DOLLARS! It is THE GOVERNMENT’S MONEY. Why can’t you people get that simple idea through your heads?

When the government takes money from you in the form of taxes it is
a. no longer your money so you have no claim to it
b. not required to account for the way it spends that money to YOU or anyone else!

It’s so simple my 8 year old understands it. Why do grown conservative republicans seem to not be able to grasp such a simple concept? Stop referring to YOUR TAX DOLLARS and MY TAX DOLLARS! It isn’t your money!

By: art

art — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 10:08:05 +0000

right on richie! just like scott said, “I think it’s the right thing to do for the state,” he said. “Just like a private company, we want to have a productive workforce.” well, duh! so let’s start with you, scott, and then let’s please, for the good of the state, drug test every last politician.

By: RICHIE

RICHIE — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 05:00:44 +0000

I believe if the tax payers have to pay for people to be employed or pay for them to be on welfare, etc. then everyone of them should be drug tested. When they come up positive for drugs then they should given 1 chance to rehap at their expense. Then if they come up positive again, then terminate employement and welfare benefits. That is what whould happen to regular workers. I also believe all politicians should be drug tested every year and if found positive they should loose their position and any retirement that position may pay.

By: Molino-Anon

Molino-Anon — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:15:36 +0000

So it is unconstitutional to drug test a state of Florida employee, with a great 401k and health benefits? and it is not unconstitutional to drug test someone working a min. wage job, struggling to make ends meet paying a 1/4 of their check toward some crappy HMO. Where’s the logic in this? Most employers have to drug test to keep their insurance overhead down… I believe drug testing SHOULD start at the state level of employment, on down. If it’s good for everyone else out there trying to make a living, it’s good for state employees as well.

Once this gets implemented Scott should also work on a law to ban buying snack foods on the job for state employees. hahaha… This state and its “laws” are a joke.