• Welcome to OGBoards 10.0, keep in mind that we will be making LOTS of changes to smooth out the experience here and make it as close as possible functionally to the old software, but feel free to drop suggestions or requests in the Tech Support subforum!

Compassionate Conservatives, all of them

TownieDeac

TownieDeac

words are futile devices
Joined
Mar 16, 2011
Messages
76,189
Reaction score
16,923
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...nessee-denies-public-assistance-to-drug-users

Tennessee Denies Public Assistance To Drug Users

Welfare recipients in Tennessee now have to declare any prior drug history when they apply for public assistance.

The vast majority of applicants said they were not drug users, but those who skipped the question were denied assistance, Bobby Allyn of member station WPLN reports for our Newscast unit.

Supporters of the requirement say it's not intended to penalize drug users — they can get help in other ways — but is meant to keep public funds from being spent on illegal drugs. Its opponents say it unfairly penalizes some of society's most vulnerable people.

Federal welfare rules have permitted drug testing since 1996, but states have struggled to come up with a method that can pass constitutional muster.

Courts have ruled out random drug testing. A 2011 Florida law that required all applicants to provide urine samples was found to violate the constitutional prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures.

The issue has come up repeatedly in Congress and eleven states have passed laws to address it since 2011, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

But some of those states, including Georgia and Mississippi, have delayed implementing the requirements until they can determine whether their plans are likely to satisfy legal challenges.
Click to expand...
 
fuck em, answer the questions or get nothing. Its easy. If you want to smoke weed, get a job. Life sucks and there are tradeoffs.

I have mouths to feed.
 
Wakeforest22890 said:
This is absolutely not constitutional
Click to expand...

This should be good...on what grounds? LOL at 4th Amendment, which as anyone who has ever been pulled over knows is waivable at the drop of a hat. If you consciously elect to apply for something to be given to you for free, you consent to its conditions. You guys are running scared and have lost what once passed for your bearings. The government is not permitted to put conditions on aid you seek from it? Since when? THIS government can tap your phone, email, bank accounts, search history, etc., etc., etc. on a whole lot less than conscious consent. THIS government can order you to make health care choices, even when you don't want them for yourself, and make you pay for them. NOW you start caring about big government? NOW? The train left a while ago. You broke it. You bought it, clowns.
 
Last edited:
Are there perjury charges for lying, or why would anyone check anything other than no?
 
jhmd2000 said:
This should be good...on what grounds? LOL at 4th Amendment, which as anyone who has ever been pulled over knows is waivable at the drop of a hat. If you consciously elect to apply for something to be given to you for free, you consent to its conditions. You guys are running scared and have lost what once passed for your bearings. The government is not permitted to put conditions on aid you seek from it? Since when? THIS government can tap your phone, email, bank accounts, search history, etc., etc., etc. on a whole lot less than conscious consent. THIS government can order you to make health care choices, even when you don't want them for yourself, and make you pay for them. NOW you start caring about big government? NOW? The train left a while ago. You broke it. You bought it, clowns.
Click to expand...

south_park_stan.jpg
 
jhmd2000 said:
This should be good...on what grounds? LOL at 4th Amendment, which as anyone who has ever been pulled over knows is waivable at the drop of a hat. If you consciously elect to apply for something to be given to you for free, you consent to its conditions. You guys are running scared and have lost what once passed for your bearings. The government is not permitted to put conditions on aid you seek from it? Since when? THIS government can tap your phone, email, bank accounts, search history, etc., etc., etc. on a whole lot less than conscious consent. THIS government can order you to make health care choices, even when you don't want them for yourself, and make you pay for them. NOW you start caring about big government? NOW? The train left a while ago. You broke it. You bought it, clowns.
Click to expand...

This is the side I want to be on. Fuck the dumb shit
 
WakeandBake said:
This is the side I want to be on. Fuck the dumb shit
Click to expand...

No way. We have a physical entrance exam. You've been hanging out with Abe Froeman too much. Hit the treadmill, mix in a salad once a lunar cycle, and we'll talk about it.
 
jhmd2000 said:
No way. We have a physical entrance exam. You've been hanging out with Abe Froeman too much. Hit the treadmill, mix in a salad once a lunar cycle, and we'll talk about it.
Click to expand...

Yea, the GOP is definitely the healthy lifestyle party.
 
I think my favorite part of this is that if a single parent is smoking weed in Tennessee they get sent to mandatory drug rehab and don't get welfare. So what happens to their kids? Oh that's a bigger burden on the state? WOW great work - now the parent is going to drug rehab for a substance that isn't physiologically addicting while their kids go into custody of the state. Definitely better than welfare!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top