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Joined: 12/13/2007 Posts: 103 Location: Bellingham
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A friend sent this to me in email.
Like a lot of folks in this state, I have a job--I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit. In order to get that paycheck, I am required to pass a random urine test with which I have no problem. What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to people who don't have to pass a urine test. Shouldn't one have to pass a urine test to get a welfare check because I have to pass one to earn it for them? Please understand, I have no problem with helping people get back on their feet. I do, on the other hand, have a problem with helping someone sitting on their ASS, doing drugs, while I work. . . Can you imagine how much money the state would save if people had to pass a urine test to get a public assistance check!? Pass this along if you agree or simply delete if you don't. Hope you all will pass it along, though . . . Something has to change in this country -- and soon!
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Joined: 8/24/2008 Posts: 1 Location: Bellingham
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The whole bodily fluids testing requirements are an affront to everyone's liberty! They have been testing folks for years and nothing has changed except that the companies who do the testing are making big bucks.
We have a long tradition in this country of requiring the state to show 'probable cause' before they can interfere with our lives, but the fear mongers have done their job well and the 'drug testing' was our first step down the slippery slope we have found ourselves on. Now nearly twenty years later, the Bill of Rights is almost completely decimated and we are all worse off because of it.
I have been both an employee and an employer and would never consider asking anyone to pee in a cup, and would refuse to pee in a cup if asked. I simply will never need any job badly enough to give up my hair, my pee, my poo, my spit, or my blood! The key idea in the last sentence was personal property rights. I own all the stuff in my body and no one has the right to demand it of me. Asking me for personal excrement is waaaaaay too kinky for me. Besides these days one cannot be sure that the test results are not going into some insurance company database for use against you when it is convenient for them to deny your claim.
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