Rick Scott's Welfare Drug Testing Law

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On CNN (R) Gov. Rick Scott claims “people on welfare use drugs at a higher rate than people who aren’t on welfare.”

youtube.com/watch?v=e2PGyr9XtJM

Only 2 percent of people who have taken the test failed. That’s compared to about 8.16 percent of the general Florida population that uses illegal drugs.
American Civil Liberties Union of Florida said: We are not testing the population at large that receives government money; those on scholarships, or state contractors, why these people? it’s obvious, because they are poor.

we agree that no one want to support drug addiction, doesn’t this further stereotypes that people on welfare are the scum of the earth when actually they are not scum they are just poor.

 

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On CNN (R) Gov. Rick Scott claims “people on welfare use drugs at a higher rate than people who aren’t on welfare.”

youtube.com/watch?v=e2PGyr9XtJM

Only 2 percent of people who have taken the test failed. That’s compared to about 8.16 percent of the general Florida population that uses illegal drugs.
American Civil Liberties Union of Florida said: We are not testing the population at large that receives government money; those on scholarships, or state contractors, why these people? it’s obvious, because they are poor.

we agree that no one want to support drug addiction, doesn’t this further stereotypes that people on welfare are the scum of the earth when actually they are not scum they are just poor.

No one is perfect, poor or otherwise. I would not identify even the imperfect as ‘scum’ as I believe there are reasons behind a person’s failures, for the most part.

There are ‘suspect’ reasons behind the governor’s actions, that were not mentioned in the interview.

Gov. Rick Scott, Solantic and conflict of interest: What’s the deal?

If you have a $62 million investment, representing the biggest single chunk of your $218 million in wealth, and you put it in a trust under your wife’s name, does that mean you’re no longer involved in the company?

Florida Gov. Rick Scott says it does.

Scott has aggressively pursued policies like testing state workers and welfare recipients for drugs, switching Medicaid patients to private HMOs and shrinking public health clinics. All these changes could benefit that $62 million investment, but Scott sees no legal conflict between his public role and private investments.

Originally it was Scott’s intention to place the business in a trust under his wife’s name.

When it appeared the conflict of interest was going to be a discussion point, Scott decided to sell of his ‘family’s’ interest in the company.

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