Pubdate: Wed, 07 Mar 2012
Source: USA Today (US)
Copyright: 2012 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc
Contact: http://mapinc.org/url/625HdBMl
Website: http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/index.htm
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/466
Author: Bruce R. Gary

REQUIREMENT IS NOT UNFAIR

The preposterous notion, floated by the American Civil Liberties 
Union, that requiring drug tests before and during receipt of public 
assistance "unfairly stigmatize people receiving public assistance" is a joke.

I would ask the ACLU if the millions of Americans subject to random 
drug tests as a condition of employment are "unfairly stigmatized," 
too. If it's about being "fair," then let's be fair to those employed 
who are providing the money for the assistance and require nothing 
less from those on the receiving end. I asked around and have not 
found one working person who thinks this mandatory drug testing 
proposal isn't a good idea. If taking a drug test is the only "work" 
a welfare recipient needs to do to get paid, then so be it.

Bruce R. Gary; Rhinelander, Wis.
- ---
MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom