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[Marie McHarry <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:54 PM, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> 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?

The simple reason is that private employees have relatively few rights
with respect to their employees. We are protected from our government
by the Constitution and law, but we are not so protected in the
private sector (unless we belong to a union that bargains for
protection, and those protections rarely cover new hires who don't
belong to the union yet).

Marie