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      <title>Comments On: Kansas Senate approves drug tests for lawmakers, welfare recipients
    
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      <![CDATA[So, just for arguments sake, lets say 99.9 percent of welfare and unemployment recipients pass the drug tests, how will the stigma shift? What will be the next scapegoat?
        
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      <![CDATA[I talked about welfare the first time now I'm gonna talk about the lawmakers.... How many of you think the law makers are actually gonna have to take a drug test?
        
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      <![CDATA[I don't live in Kansas, yet I did for only 10 months. More than half the people in the town I lived in were on drugs.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Orphan of the Road]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[If only they would test for stupidity & greed.
        
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      <![CDATA[You reckon they'll pass legislation legalizing reefer now?
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Jan Shields]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[This bill should be a simple thing. Refuse a test or can not pass a test ... no money no benefits<br>
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      <![CDATA[The scariest part of this:  state officials would have the right to authorize a drug test for current or future welfare and unemployment recipients, as well as state lawmakers, if those officials have "reasonable suspicion" that an individual was under the influence of drugs. Which state officials do you want to have this power?
        
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      <![CDATA[I've always wanted this but the bill is deeply flawed. First, why should taxpayers pay for some freeloading druggie to go to rehab?
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Margaret Snatcher]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[To Micah Horner.....did you even read the article? or are you only concerned about the stimitization of welfare recipients and not state law makers.
        
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      <![CDATA[If you're against this, chances are you're either on welfare, or on drugs.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Alan Mitchell]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Now if we could test the federal government theyre on some very strong strange trippy crap...
        
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          <a href="http://www.pitch.com/kansascity/Profile?oid=3125298">Alan Mitchell</a>]]>
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      <![CDATA[It's just a way for Republicans to demagogue and throw red meat at their conservative base, while at the same time insinuating that welfare recipients are all druggies. No matter how you slice it, it's going to come off as insulting and borderline racist.<br>
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Even if it was true that welfare recipients were, for the most part, druggies, it shows that the Republican Party is totally oblivious to how their actions are percieved by the public, and are blissfully unaware of how bigoted and "extreme" this is going to make them look.
        
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      <![CDATA[Have they considered how much it's going to cost to test all lawmakers and welfare recipients? Who's going to pay the wages of all the people administering the tests, material/administrative costs, etc.<br>
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Government is fantastic at looking everywhere except where the problem is, and finding solutions to the problems they caused in the first place that do nothing but make everything worse.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Common Sense]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I have to take a drug test to earn your welfare money - you should take one to receive it.
        
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