PISS OFF, CONGRESS!!

[ramseycat]

Sounds like Aussie had a bad day.

[aussiefriend]

[HairOfTheDog]

It would be easier and make more sense to drug test Congresspersons than welfare recipients, as a criteria for getting/keeping their jobs (as opposed to a criteria for disqualifying people from getting assistance designed to help unemployed people meet their basic needs). Plus, there are very few Congresspersons vs. a ton of welfare recipients.

I've never liked the idea of any employer monitoring what people do off the job. If they're doing their jobs while on the clock, that's enough for me. But, a lot of employers require drug testing and representing a state is pretty serious business. So, I understand why the majority of the public supports congressional testing (and there are probably some elected officials who are in fact high behind the desk).

I can imagine a number of elected Congresspersons failing drug tests and doing the whole public apology / rehab gig, necessitating emergency elections to fill unexpected gaps, holding up key votes, etc... Maybe testing would deter drug abusers from seeking office or inspire incumbents to get help before being busted. If it improves their performance over the long run, is it worth it? IDK. But, hard to imagine that such a proposal would be passed by Congress in any case.

[HairOfTheDog]

That was a low blow to bring up my Heinekin abuse tonight. I mean, I get up at 5.30am in the freezing cold to pay for this shit. And my mother was here to drive when I ran out of the shit. It was all above board, all legal, all once of the year shit. I am dealing with some relationship issues too. Fucking give me a break before you fucking put me in with a fucking crystal meth drug lab parent.

I don't know if alcohol is one of the drugs that welfare recipients would be tested for, but I imagine it's on some people's recommended list for consideration.

Since you're not a US welfare recipient, you're safe to arrange care for your child and over-indulge, without anyone threatening to show up at your door to test you and take your child away if you fail.

Party on. You deserve to let your hair down, aussie.

[sally]

Drug testing welfare recipients sounds like a good idea until you factor in all the other details. It wouldn't hurt my feelings, however, if they stopped giving welfare to able bodied people with no dependents. If you're not disabled or elderly and have no children you should be able to buy your own fucking food. There is no reason why some lazy ass bum with no kids should be getting $300 a month in food stamps.

The human body doesn't even need that much food. There are tribes that live to be 100 eating a few bugs and some tree sap a day.

[HairOfTheDog]

The human body doesn't even need that much food. There are tribes that live to be 100 eating a few bugs and some tree sap a day.

That's true.

I wonder if it would hold true across all cultures? I mean, Clang wouldn't qualify for food stamps under your criteria, but would his body go into anaphylactic shock if his diet was suddenly restricted to roly-polies and pine sap?

On the plus side, if he lived, it would definitely be an effective weight loss program.

[sally]

He wouldn't even need to resort to roly polies. Between the church food pantry and the numerous spaghetti dinners at the homeless shelters he could probably manage to stay just as fat as always. And just think if he actually got a job....

[username]

It's funny (yet not) that the states that tried very hard to crack down on working illegal immigrants "succeeded". They drove many of the illegal immigrants out of their states and surprise! They couldn't find any unemployed whities to do the work and pick their peaches. Were we to successfully drive illegal immigrants out and pay workers minimum wage, O.J. would cost $10+ a gallon.

Big protest today...fast food workers NEED at least $10.00 hr. as opposed to the $7.25 or whatever it is they're guaranteed now.

[Maggot]

It will just get passed on to the consumer anyways. Fast food sucks anyways so it matters nothing to me. Just don't cook it in bare feet bitches!

[aussiefriend]

Party on. You deserve to let your hair down, aussie.

Thanks HoTD, my mother is here, so it's all good.

[Cynical Ninja]

Clang is on welfare and is morbidly obese.

Now what is wrong with that sentence?

Clang is like the class hamster of Mock, yes he embodies everything that is wrong with America and should be treated as such. He is the embodiment of the welfare leech he sits on his fat arse and gets fat on your tax dollars and he's proud of it!

But he is lovable like a hamster, saying that a hamster is far more productive. Clang isn't running in his wheel for 3 miles every night.

Clang, more worthless an existence than a hamster.

[Duchess]

I would like to invite Clang to go to midnight Mass with me on Christmas Eve.

That was actually a date for me one Christmas Eve as a teenager. My Mom never should have sent me to charm school, I learned a lot of bad stuff there and I can guarantee I never went on another date that included Mass.