A waste of money on a non-issue. Welfare recipients score way lower in drug use than the population at large. States that have instituted drug testing of welfare recipients have found nothing like they and their right-wing supporters expected. Read about the waste and folly here:
http://www.greenvillegazette.c...ome-up-empty-119505/
"...Tennessee is not the only state who refuses to learn from their mistakes. Seven other Republican states are also getting these same results. According to Think Progress, Tennessee has run 16,017 drug tests and only thirty-seven were positive. Arizona checked 142,424 people, but only three of those tests came back positive. Mississippi screened 3,656 individuals, and they were only able to find two positive drug tests. Similar results were found in the other conservative states as well. Collectively, conservatives have wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars on this futile quest, but still they continue their fight."
Best--Take special note of this part of the article:
"The Republican party’s war on the disenfranchised stems from the “Entitlement Nation” myth, and it is a perfect example of what the future holds when politicians take what they see on Fox News and turn it into legislation without stopping to investigate any of it or consider the outcome. Instead of continuing their war, perhaps they should spend more of their time repairing the state economies that were forced to suffer because of their false beliefs about welfare recipients and their belief that tax cuts for the wealthy will boost economic growth and development"
