Comments by "CuteCatFaith" (@CuteCatFaith) on "Michigan Will Drug Test Welfare Recipients" video.

  1. Or eat a poppy seed roll.  Anyway, it is not cost-effective.  Personally, if I knew of a dole cheat who was also banging drugs a lot, I'd be mad.  At some point, they'd have to be tested, too, if I fussed and ratted them out.
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  2. I've known otherwise.  Most people want a beer or something and to cry in it, I've found.
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  3. I can really understand your view.  It may seem cold, but cost-effectiveness does have to be considered.  I recall a college pal in NYC -- I met him again years later at a job.  He was a long-term temp there.  We met outside the job and this was a guy who didn't even have a beer let alone smoke a cigarette or do drugs.  (He was not on benefits, btw.)  He told me about a banking job he didn't even actually want.  He'd been hired and told to show up in a month.  But first, a drug test was needed.  He didn't like it, but he took it.  He went to work on Day One a month later and they told him he'd failed and would not be retained.  He was incensed.  He said, why did you waste my time?  I want another test.  They refused.  It was an employment at will state, so he was screwed.  I had avoided drugs testing all along in the USA and never agreed to it, and in my new country I have refused it, also.  In my new country, even if you are fully disabled, benefits are not for life and come up for review every few years.  It's not a free ride, benefits are slim and accepting them is considered shameful here.  The legal system makes parents responsible for feeding, clothing and housing their kids for life, it is in perpetuity.  If someone is a dole cheat and actually is some druggie, I say get them some help but yeah that behavior is not acceptable, I do not like it. 
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  4. DrunkVegan I left the USA in '94 and things did vary from state to state, I recall.  Thanks for the info.  I had my US Soc Sec disability process fail over 15 years of trying because they kept losing my dossiers.  22 years over there of declared work for nothing.  So it goes.
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