{"id":6344,"date":"2011-12-02T06:32:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T06:31:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T06:31:56","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6344","title":{"rendered":"GOP finds drug testing &#8220;compassionate thing to do&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Care2.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.care2.com\/causes\/drug-testing-welfare-recipients-is-compassionate.html#ixzz1fNMwujiE\">Drug Testing Welfare Recipients is \u201cCompassionate\u201d<\/a> by Robin Marty:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Florida is already mired in courtroom proceedings over their new law mandating that all welfare recipients must submit to and pass a drug test in order to receive benefits.  But despite the state\u2019s court blocking the law as a violation of the fourth amendment, Ohio legislators are looking at implementing the same practice in their state.<\/p>\n<p>Because, as one Republican law maker puts it, it\u2019s the \u201ccompassionate thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Florida quickly learned that regardless of the legality of their plan, the actual testing itself showed that despite the Republicans\u2019 assumptions, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.care2.com\/causes\/floridas-mandatory-drug-tests-for-welfare-recipients-finds-few-fails.html\">very few welfare recipients actually were using drugs<\/a>.  In fact, the percentage of welfare recipients using drugs was actually lower than that of the regular population.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That kind of emasculates the &#8220;state need&#8221; for the intrusion then, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6344\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}