Feed up Feminists, Just one more law to humiliate and hurt those already suffering!!!!!

After scanning our local newspaper, I found myself staring at an article called Welfare Benefit? Try Drug Test. According to the Rochester Post Bulletin, “at least eight states want recipients of food stamps, unemployment benefits or welfare to submit to random drug tests.” Republican Craig Blair has created a web site and says “If so many jobs require random drug tests these days, why not these benefits.” They say stress is when you have the desire to choke the living hell out of someone who deserves it and being unable to do so. Well I guess you could say this is one of those situations. Isn’t it enough that our poor, unemployed citizens have to go to the length and insanity to even get help, often finding themselves in situations that humiliate and take away all human dignity to now have to suffer at the hands of our government to be subjected to pee in a cup (which by the way when doing drug tests, they send someone into the bathroom with you and watch you).
As a woman who has worked in the field of Alcoholism, I also know these tests costs approx 3-10 dollars per test, not including the cost to send it away for further testing. Hmm let see if I multiply that by say half the figure of the reported unemployed, I do believe we would have enough money set aside to drug test everyone of the senators and representatives, and with enough left over to feed a few more hungry people. I also wonder who is paying for the not with my tax dollar website?? Was Mr. Blair spending time and tax dollars, writing, developing, reading and responding to it? Wonder if Google and a few other search engines are receiving our tax dollar to make sure that people can Google it!!
One of those moments when I wonder how many other feminist it would take to load this website with enough negative responses that he would figure out that we still have enough political weight to stop this little drug test party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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