http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/15/1421480/-Scott-Walker-says-he-wants-to-make-people-go-hungry-for-their-own-good?detail=email
Gov. Scott Walker, currently suing the federal government to enable Wisconsin to drug test food stamp applicants, is trying to package this as a way to help low-income people:
"For us, it's not a punitive thing, it's a progressive thing," Walker told The Huffington Post on Friday, following the first of several campaign stops in Iowa over the weekend.
"We're trying to help people who are in need of our assistance to get jobs," Walker said, "because the best thing we can do with them is to make sure they get the skills and education they need, and make sure they are drug free if they have an addiction, to get back in the workforce."
Mind you, the majority of adults living in poverty in the United States are either working or are not considered eligible to work because they're retired, disabled or students. To say nothing of the children Walker wants to deny nutritional assistance because their parent smoked a joint.
Walker, whose job creation record as governor has been abysmal, also suggested that employers tell him they'd hire more people if only they could find drug-free applicants. Ask to name the employers who say this, though ...
"Well, I've talked to them for years," he said. "I'd have to go back and look through my schedule over the years, but we've had employer after employer say that consistently that they want employees that are drug free and they want employees that can pass basic employability skills."
Somehow I don't think the six-figure gap between the number of jobs Walker promised he'd create and reality is explained by drug use. And if Wisconsin employers really had more than 100,000 jobs sitting open waiting for drug-free applicants that didn't exist in Wisconsin, this would be a well-publicized fact leading to unemployed people flocking to the state for all those jobs.
Drug testing government aid applicants has also been shown to be a waste of money in states that tried this before Walker got to it. The cost of testing a lot of applicants turns out to outweigh the savings from rejecting benefits the teeny tiny percentage of applicants who fail their tests. It's almost like all the reasons Republicans give for promoting these policies are actually false, covering for the real agenda of stigmatizing and starving poor people.ED elephant dung, he is just trying to gather stats they can cook to show those on food stamps as drug abusing freeloaders on the taxpayer dime so then they can deny them and their children any assistance leaving more money for more important Koch interest.
drug testing cost more and finds it's just another republican myth to control and cancel food for those in need by labels. they don't care about us they only seek to pass legislation that denies and limits.
