Thank you Florida, Kentucky, and Missouri, which are the first states that will require drug testing when applying for welfare. Some people are crying and calling this unconstitutional. How is this unconstitutional? It’s OK to drug test people who work for their money but not those who don’t? Repost this if you’d like this in all 50.Yeah, sounds horrible that people are getting on welfare while on drugs. Except that they're not. Not as many as you'd think. In fact far less than you'd think.
Say...only 2 people out of a hundred tested.
Read the article and you'll see that the whole process in Florida is spending annually $178 million to save on the high side, $98,000.
Yes, in order to prevent one dollar of taxpayer's hard earned money from supporting a drug fiend, they're spending just under $3,000 to do so.
The funny thing is? If we saw a friend on ours cheering how they won a $20 from an instant, scratch off lottery ticket and we saw them spending $200 to win that...we'd think that they were idiots.
So about the title of my post. Where does that factor in? Ever hear of lobbyists? They're groups of people who get government officials to allow them to do something that their parent companies want to do. Selling drug test kits for example.
Some one brought up an interesting point. That perhaps the people pushing for a captive market to sell their drug kits are making the initial post about the welfare stuff. After all, no one wants to think that their hard earned tax dollars are being used to support crack-heads. So you post something on a fake Facebook account (not that hard to do, I know of people who have three or four accounts just to play the games) and you let it go viral. People are so adamantly against what is said in the post and so go and repost it time and time again.
Because the post is designed to push the right buttons. Hell I'll even admit to being all for it when I first heard about this in 2011. I was just as much champing at the bit to stop this horrible thing from continuing. Then I did something. Something that makes me evil in the eyes of the lobbyists. I did my homework. I thought for myself. I did research.
Very quickly I found quite a few news articles regarding the wasted money. Including the one I linked to above. And very quickly I started realizing that while I'm against my money going to support stoners who can't be arsed to put the bong down and get a job, I'm even more against huge wastes of spending. That money could be better spent on many MANY other things ranging from lessening the tax burden to education and scholarships, to stimulating the economy to create jobs in order to get people off of welfare.
And it would not be the first time that someone has used Facebook for their nefarious purposes. We see advertisers doing it, we see politicians using it to promote themselves and to put down their opponents, we see the Westboro Baptist Church doing it.
Let's face it. It's about as low cost of a form of advertising as you can get. The only money you have to pay is for the staff to do it and the internet connection that you as a business likely already have.
So before reposting something that comes across our Facebook walls and Twitter feeds...Spend a few minutes looking it up on the internet. You might be surprised to learn that what you are supposed to be against is not nearly as bad as what really goes on behind the scenes.
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