{"id":7983,"date":"2012-11-19T07:05:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T07:05:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T07:05:14","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7983","title":{"rendered":"Welfare drug testing in Texas, too?"},"content":{"rendered":"

McClatchy: Commentary: Welfare drug testing and the Fourth Amendment<\/a> by Linda P. Campbell | The Fort Worth Star-Telegram: <\/p>\n

Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst probably wouldn’t admit it, but they want to engage in social engineering. They want people not to waste money on drugs, liquor, smokes or lottery tickets. Not everybody, mind you, but poor people. <\/p>\n

That’s because poor people can get taxpayer dollars to help feed their kids or tide their families over when they lose a job — and we can’t have them spending that money on things the rest of us disapprove of. …<\/p>\n

But the method of choice put forward by Perry, Dewhurst, Sen. Jane Nelson of Flower Mound and other Republicans is to drug-test people applying for public benefits such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and unemployment assistance. As though drug use is the main reason people with kids are poor or have been thrown out of work.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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