Quote Originally Posted by gugi View Post
I don't think you (and apparently many of the previous posters) understand what the bill does. They are not making everyone, just a small fraction of people, take the test. This is simply cheap populist politics to capitalize on the gullibility of those who're better at following than at critical thinking.

When the governor, the legislature, the judges, etc. start peeing in a cup before voting or signing anything, and the results of the tests are made public afterwards, then things like this may become meaningful.

Athletes do it, a lot of the decent private sector jobs do it, now that it's supposed to enter the public sector, why restrict the great benefits of this system to only the ones on welfare?

I care way way more whether the governor, the president, the judge, the congressman, etc. is a crackhead than whether the bum on the street corner is. The decisions the last one makes are next to irrelevant for my well being, while the decisions of the former can have effect on my grandchildren.
I may not understand the full extent of the bill & it's possible you may not either & may be swayed by reasons of your own. I may not be the "critical thinker" that you are, but we are all entitled to our own opinion and I fully stand by my own. It would be fiscally difficult to gather a sample before a "check" is handed out for a welfare recipient, but random's is something that I would fully support and will support.