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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

Jobs come with specific requirements and liability for the company.  If you 
are collecting unemployment, it is something you already *earned,* not 
something they need to earn.

Just a side note, welfare is not available to convicted drug addicts.  That 
is one of the reforms that Bushy Jr. put in.  They can get a portion of the 
welfare for the children they may have, but they can't get a full grant that 
gives money for the adults.  Of course, there isn't any supervision over how 
it is spent.  THAT would be a both party problem.

Food stamps were originally not to cover anything that could be taxed and 
not to cover anything other than basic meat, potatoes, flour, sugar, milk, 
veggies.  Nothing packaged (mac/cheese, Rice-A-Roni, Hamburger Helper, etc., 
etc., etc.).  There was discussion about working welfare similarly to WIC 
where "x" dollars would go directly to a landlord, utility company etc.  The 
Repubs complained about more bureacracy and the Dems complained that it was 
degrading to the recipients.

Lynda
-- "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we 
are
to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and
servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."  Theordore
Roosevelt, 1918.
----- Original Message ----- 

> At  9/29/2009 09:54 PM,EarthNSky wrote:
>
> If it is accepted that you and I must be subjected for drug testing in
> order to get our paycheck, why is it not accepted that those who receive
> government assistance in the form of welfare or unemployment be
> subjected to the same random screening and terms?