I'm OK with my opinion being "not becoming"Originally Posted by Osteomata
I've been thinking this one over some more Ldub, and I guess what surprises is me is the vehemence and apparent anger over the issue of providing a minimum subsistence for those in poverty. Do those not in it think it fun or something? I am being intentionally rhetorical, but still, seriously? Living ****ty lives and counting dimes and being in an unsafe neighborhood and barely able to provide for your kids and you depend on some aid from the state and now some petty authoritarian bureaucrat says you have to pee in a cup every month, for which you now have to get a babysitter and take the bus down town etc etc etc. Are we as a nation really that angry and disdainful of them? But hell why stop there. Why not urine tests for SS, medicare, school lunch programs, work assistance programs and all of them? Heck we can set up a hole new government agency to monitor and enforce it. And as has been pointed out, those dang poor people have the gall to smoke too, so might as well test for nicotine while were at it. Don't give me any of that nonsense about "well cigarettes aren't illegal" because some of you can surely name restrictions on otherwise legal activity that your well paying job puts on you. Soon as I can figure out how to test for alcohol use beyond about a day we need to add that too. I guess I am just trying to say that reasonable people can disagree about the best way to set up and too what extant or scope we should have any number of programs, but there is really no need to be pissed off at the majority of the recipients and their families, it just doesn't become us as a nation.
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/
See my last 2 replies for further clarification...
Good luck with that al-key-haul test, hope you make a million...
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