Comments on: Scott Drops Fight For Welfare Applicant Drug Testing

By: TiredOfBS

TiredOfBS — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 04:04:18 +0000

I understand people have hard times, and sometimes just can’t make enough to make ends meet. That does not make anyone stupid or less deserving of assistance!! However, I find it amazing how we usually have to be drug tested for any job and it’s legal. Have an accident on the job and your getting tested….and it’s legal. The government requires us to drug test for a job with them. Hell the kids in the state of Florida public schools even get to be drug tested if they participate in any extracurricular activities, sports, etc. (and the school pays for it) So explain to me why it’s a big deal for someone getting government assistance to get drug tested? I think Scott could have continued spending money and in the long run it would have saved the taxpayers a ton!! I think the state could still pay for the testing and still be ahead of the game!!! Put an end to people abusing the system!!

By: Mark T

Mark T — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 17:18:52 +0000

(The law “offends the Fourth Amendment,” Marcus wrote, and relied on the state’s own evidence showing that, during the short time that the law was in effect, fewer than 3 percent of TANF applicants tested positive for drugs.)
I don’t see anything about paying for it being the reason..

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 14:50:35 +0000

Scott knew this would never pass the court system by making the applicant pay for it. It was all about getting elected again. Doesn’t matter which side you are on in this you gotta respect him for being able to fool a bunch of people over where he stood on it. If the state had paid for the test the court system wouldn’t have rejected it.

By: B Brown

B Brown — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 14:43:18 +0000

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,[a] against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.[2]

The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is the part of the Bill of Rights that prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and requires any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause. It was adopted in response to the abuse of the writ of assistance, a type of general search warrant issued by the British government and a major source of tension in pre-Revolutionary America.

It wasn’t till Katz v. United States (1967), the Supreme Court held that its protections, such as the warrant requirement, extend to the privacy of individuals as well as physical locations.

Read it and you will see the political blurred lines to which this went from what it initial was to privacy.

I myself work and understand that my money goes towards people who may need real assistance so if the people who want to keep taking drugs I say keep cracking down on them and lets over load the already over loaded jail systems and then they can complain about that how were are arresting the poor person on petty drug charges.

By: Mark T

Mark T — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 13:25:31 +0000

These republican “patriots” are comical,, don’t touch my 2nd amendment but we don’t care about the 4th amendment.. I personally support all of the Constitution…

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 12:43:15 +0000

Your suppositions that everyone who is poor is doing drugs is just stupid. You because of the CONSERVATIVES became a so called “right to work State” and in so doing gave corporations the right to do anything they want to you, pay you lower wages, drug test you, your own fault. Don’t take it out on the poor, because you allowed yourself to be victimized.

By: john

john — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 12:43:13 +0000

I’ll tell you what is a waste of tax payer money, all these BUMS that are on the welfare system! They are costing the taxpayer a whole lot more than a measly drug test, but thats OK because folks its gonna come to a head. One day uncle daddy not gonna have no mo’ money to pay. Its coming watch an see!!!

By: JT

JT — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 02:14:17 +0000

@Rufus – You are right. The government can not make mandatory drug screens. That is why they are not mandatory. If you don’t want to take one you don’t have to. You just won’t get your God given Constitutional right to the rest of the tax payer paying your bill.

By: Mark S

Mark S — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 22:12:35 +0000

What a COMPLETE waste of taxpayer money. And for all you Conservatives who think the Government should keep this fight going, just go ahead and label yourselves a hypocrite because that is exactly what you are.

“Stop shredding the Constitution” you scream

‘Unless it affects the poor, minority or out of work’ you whimper

Have you no shame???

By: Rufus Lowgun

Rufus Lowgun — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 17:50:42 +0000

If you support the constitution, you cannot support mandatory drug screens. No probably cause means no search and no seizure. The constitution is not even slightly vague on this matter.