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[disneydream06]

This sounds like a really cost saving/smaller government move...

Florida Governor Wants to Drug Test All State Employees
posted by: Lindsay Beyerstein

Florida Republican Governor Rick Scott plans to force public workers and welfare recipients to undergo random drug testing every three weeks. Why? Because he doesn't like either group, Cenk Uygur argues on the Young Turks. "It's an attempt to stigmatize, demonize, and punish those people," Uygur says:

Suzy Khimm of Mother Jones explains why Scott's plan is almost certainly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court has ruled that public employees cannot be forced to take drug tests unless public safety is at stake. The government can impose random drug testing for bus drivers, but not clerks at the DMV. Scott wants to spend millions of dollars testing all state employees. The only beneficiary of Scott's plan will be the drug-testing industry.

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[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

You see, he gave his healthcare company to his wife and the company includes drug testing so guess who stands to benefit?

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

WHOA, That part I didn't hear about. Sounds pretty typical though. ARGH...

[dan4behr.livejournal.com]

Check this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Scott#Scott_history_at_Columbia_Hospital_Corporation
Plus, there were allegations even before the election of fraud and improprieties and they still voted him in down there...

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I wish I could say I was shocked. :o

[ellierachael.livejournal.com]

seems like a massive waste of money to me!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

It's the Repub version of cost saving. :o

[classical-wolf.livejournal.com]

The hell...,?

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Completely. :o

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I wonder if he's willing to get one every week?

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I'll bring the syringe and ask him when I go down this November. :p