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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2011-09-29

[Context: "Gov. Rick Scott's crusade to drug-test cash welfare applicants [...] was based on the misinformed and condescending premise that welfare recipients are more prone to use illegal drugs [...] Statistically, the opposite is true [...]"]

"Interestingly, the governor's pee-in-the-cup mandate doesn't apply to the one bunch that whizzes away more tax dollars than anyone else -- the legislators who pass such useless laws. I say line up all 160 of 'em for a patriotic whiz-fest at the Capitol clinic. You think more than 2.5 percent might test positive? Let's find out." -- Carl Hiassen, 2011-09-24 [heard about this column by way of the MSNBC television program The Rachel Maddow Show]

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posted by [personal profile] nancylebov at 10:20am on 2011-09-29
I feel the same way about drug testing the CEOs of any company that drug tests its employees.

As for the financial crisis, it's plausible that the people at the top were high on greed, arrogance, stupidity, and lack of sleep, but maybe coke was involved, too.

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