Michigan may drug test welfare recipients

[Piña]

cg

And there I was thinking pretty much the same about you.

It's interesting that you seem incapable of answering my questions. Why is that?

Fear? Ineptitude? Flat out ignorance?

You choose.

[cincygreg]

Pina, dont you have something to protest or a flag to burn or something?

[LAKE]

Originally posted by cincygreg:
Pina, dont you have something to protest or a flag to burn or something?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Now Greg, don't you know Tuesdays are for burning his bras?

[cincygreg]

OOPS, My Bad. [img]eek.gif[/img]

Thanks for straightening that out Lake! [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]

[Piña]

Actually lake, I set aside Tuesday to burn your bra's. Changed my mind and decided to retask 'em when I found they're awfully handy for carrying my groceries. Nice capacity and aside from banging my knees they're pretty useful.

[gae]

The entire welfare system is one that creates dependence.

It should be completely abolished. No welfare:no drug testing:no argument.

LBJ was the worst president EVER.

[Piña]

gae

When you can't argue your point just rant, eh?

[Dulcinea]

Just an anecdote from personal experience.

When I was living in a "depressed area" in Baltimore, close to the Johns Hopkins Hospital and medical school, I would chat with my neighbors. They were bemused that someone would leave in the morning, go to work and be gone all day, and come home in the late afternoon. But they were protective of me - once someone on their stoop called out to me as I returned home that some guy had been trying to get in the windows of my house that opened onto the alley, and they told him to go away, a "nice white woman" lived in that house.

So, I got into a conversation with the 13 year old girl that lived a couple of houses up from me (row homes, so our front doors were really only about 40 feet away). She told me that her social worker had taken her to a doctor to have an IUD put in when it was found out she was sexually active. She then told me, I know what that's for, I pulled it out. I want to get pregnant and have a baby so I can get my OWN check and move out.

I know, this is only one experience, and many reforms have occurred between the time I had this exchange (~1982) and now. But it startled me at the time, and I was saddened at the thought that this was the extent of this young woman's ambition.