GOP Rep. Blake Farenthold Compares Unemployed Americans to Alcoholics and Drug Users

FARENTHOLD: "Drug testing for recipients of various welfare programs, I really think that’s something that needs to be considered. We’ve gotta, you know, nobody wants to starve anybody. Everybody wants to help folks out. But we’ve got a system where you can stay on unemployment for an awfully long time. And I think we need to create a system of decreasing benefits over time to encourage you to get a job. I think anybody who’s had an alcoholic in their life or somebody with a drug problem, realizes that until things get bad enough there’s no incentive to change. I think that we’re so generous in some of our social problems that people are unwilling to get a job outside in the heat. Rather than get 15 dollars to go get roofing they’d rather get 9 or 10 dollars in benefits. I think drug testing is not an unreasonable requirement to get benefits."

I think anybody who’s had an alcoholic in their life or somebody with a drug problem, realizes that until things get bad enough there’s no incentive to change. I think that we’re so generous in some of our social problems that people are unwilling to get a job outside in the heat.

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All politicians should be tested for drugs

chopthis91 wrote:I think ALL political figures should be drug tested at their own expense then tested again randomly. I bet you a thousand dollars that we have some politicians doing them becuase look at the way some of them behave on a daily basis. Turn about is fair play IMO....

DesperateInRI wrote:

chopthis91 wrote:I think ALL political figures should be drug tested at their own expense then tested again randomly. I bet you a thousand dollars that we have some politicians doing them becuase look at the way some of them behave on a daily basis. Turn about is fair play IMO....

I think they should be given breathalyzer tests before they enter the Capitol.

chopthis91 wrote:

DesperateInRI wrote:

chopthis91 wrote:I think ALL political figures should be drug tested at their own expense then tested again randomly. I bet you a thousand dollars that we have some politicians doing them becuase look at the way some of them behave on a daily basis. Turn about is fair play IMO....

I think they should be given breathalyzer tests before they enter the Capitol.

That would stop some of those martini lunches they have on a daily basis (at taxpayer's expense)...

Abbie wrote:

chopthis91 wrote:

DesperateInRI wrote:

chopthis91 wrote:I think ALL political figures should be drug tested at their own expense then tested again randomly. I bet you a thousand dollars that we have some politicians doing them becuase look at the way some of them behave on a daily basis. Turn about is fair play IMO....

I think they should be given breathalyzer tests before they enter the Capitol.

That would stop some of those martini lunches they have on a daily basis (at taxpayer's expense)...

If the breathalyzer test happens, they would have to get a new Speaker.

DesperateInRI wrote:

Abbie wrote:

chopthis91 wrote:

DesperateInRI wrote:

chopthis91 wrote:I think ALL political figures should be drug tested at their own expense then tested again randomly. I bet you a thousand dollars that we have some politicians doing them becuase look at the way some of them behave on a daily basis. Turn about is fair play IMO....

I think they should be given breathalyzer tests before they enter the Capitol.

That would stop some of those martini lunches they have on a daily basis (at taxpayer's expense)...

If the breathalyzer test happens, they would have to get a new Speaker.

Another one that would be out the door would be Max Baucus in the Senate. Remember his drunken speech on the Floor during the healthcare debates? They should have thrown him out right there and then.