WI to start drug testing welfare recipients starting Monday

[darnkatz]

Drug testing welfare recipients starts Monday


MADISON, Wis. (WSAU) -- Wisconsin will start drug testing welfare recipients starting Monday. Governor Scott Walker signed off on the rule, as-written by the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families. The rule requires testing able-bodied adults seeking certain benefits.

Walker issued a statement today saying, “Employers across the state frequently tell me they have good-paying jobs available in high-demand fields, but need their workers to be drug-free. These important entitlement reforms will help more people find family-supporting jobs, moving them from government dependence to true independence.”

DCF’s newly-approved rule is the next step in the process as they develop and implement their drug screening and testing for certain able-bodied adults seeking benefits and/or training through Transform Milwaukee, Transitional Jobs, and noncustodial parents in the W-2 program. Under the plan, individuals who test positive for a controlled substance without a prescription would be eligible for a drug treatment plan.

[pixy0stix]

I'm sure this will end just as well as it did in every state that this passed.

[darnkatz]

[krisandgrace]

Are they going to also drug test CEO's at companies getting tax breaks?

[eponinepontmercy]

We're running out of "table flipping" and 'RAGE" gifs.

[silva]

I just can't anymore with my State.

[tacosforlife]

Nov 4, 2015 13:30:50 GMT -5 krisandgrace said:

Are they going to also drug test CEO's at companies getting tax breaks?

You should read about the shenanigans of Alex Molinaroli, the CEO of the state's largest public company. INSANE. But hey, let's definitely focus our energy on this!

[StrawberryBlondie]

Isn't WI in a pretty big deficit right now?

[downtoearth]

Ah, I see...WI is just trying to start new businesses. New ones like those businesses where you can buy pee samples b/c you are taking pain meds and opiates in your pee might mean you can't get food while you're out of work and in pain.

[tacosforlife]

Nov 4, 2015 13:43:57 GMT -5 StrawberryBlondie said:

Isn't WI in a pretty big deficit right now?

You're trying to use your ladybrain for logic again, aren't you?

[meshaliuknits]

Nov 4, 2015 13:46:01 GMT -5 Dig Ophelia said:

What's the word for doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results?

jackass?

[downtoearth]

Nov 4, 2015 13:51:34 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

Nov 4, 2015 13:46:01 GMT -5 Dig Ophelia said:

What's the word for doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results?

jackass?

Wisconsin?

[iammalcolmx]

I can only assume that the owner of the testing company is giving someone kick backs.

[tacosforlife]

Nov 4, 2015 13:54:14 GMT -5 iammalcolmx said:

I can only assume that the owner of the testing company is giving someone kick backs.

That is certainly possible, but I can't imagine our governor being smart enough to secure money for himself in this deal. It's gotta be going to someone in the legislature.

[josieposy]

How is it saving money if those who test positive get a state-funded treatment plan?

[tacosforlife]

::looks for available jobs to transfer to in Minnesota::

[MrsAxilla]

Nov 4, 2015 14:11:15 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

::looks for available jobs to transfer to in Minnesota::

Didn't you just try to convince us to move to WI, like, yesterday?!?  

[bimbi284]

So WI lives under a rock, then?

Rage.

[StrawberryBlondie]

Nov 4, 2015 14:11:15 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

::looks for available jobs to transfer to in Minnesota::

My company is virtually always hiring people with JDs.

[WOT?*]

I hope it costs millions of dollars and gets zero results.
That's pretty much all we can hope for now, right? That and Trump going up in flames.

[badgergrl]

you have heard of compassion fatigue ? I have walker fatigue. He does so many super shitty things it's hard to keep up

Remember when Wisconsin was a progressive state?

[wise_rita]

That's excellent news!

For drug testing companies.

[mrsukyankee]

Nov 4, 2015 13:32:16 GMT -5 pennypenny said:

Well that is a giant fucking waste of money.

That's exactly what came out of my mouth as soon as I read the title.  Idiots.

[Deleted]

I assume the politicians of the state are also being tested? They receive money from the government as well.

[Deleted]

I thought Wisconsin was pretty progressive?

::kicks rocks::

::humps NY::

[simpsongal]

They're testing so they can get them the support then need, right? Like in or out patient treatment? Social workers, al anon referral...etc.

Riiiight???

[tacosforlife]

Nov 5, 2015 10:32:53 GMT -5 @notquiteblushing said:

I thought Wisconsin was pretty progressive?

::kicks rocks::

::humps NY::

It was until Scott Walker rode in on his Koch Brothers-funded right wing machine.

::throws things::