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Related: About this forumWelfare drug tests to start in Arkansas
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Welfare drug tests to start in Arkansas (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Mar 2016
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yourpaljoey
(2,166 posts)1. Bad idea all around
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)2. So, do the good ol' boyz who wrote that law
have to take drug tests, too?
dogman
(6,073 posts)3. How come there is no invetigation into ownership of testing companies.
There has to be a huge investment or lobbying largess for these pols.
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SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)4. €™©¥. nt
virgista
(48 posts)5. The biggest beneficiaries of this unconstitutional law are the labs that will be performing them.
I know, I am a lab tech. This is an unreasonable search plain and simple! It cannot be argued on the basis of public safety. Or on any other basis other than animus towards the poor and especially towards the brown-skinned poor.
Makers of the lab machinery and the reagents used in the drug tests are big beneficiaries too.
astrophuss42
(290 posts)6. So backwards