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antleraddiction
Optics Apprentice Joined: January/27/2008 Location: North Carolina Status: Offline Points: 137 |
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Posted: April/22/2008 at 15:14 |
This was sent to me in an email, thought it made sense to post as, I totally agree................. The Treasury Dept. cashed my tax check yesterday, I'm sure it will be put to its "HIGHEST and BEST USE".
THE JOB & THE URINE TEST
I HAVE TO PASS A URINE TEST FOR MY JOB. So, like a lot of folks in the States, I have a job. I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit. In order to get that paycheck, I am required to pass a random urine test with which I have no problem. What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to people who don't have to pass a urine test. Shouldn't one have to pass a urine test to get a welfare check because I have to pass one to earn it for them? Please understand, I have no problem with helping people get back on their feet. I do, on the other hand, have a problem with helping someone sitting on their ASS, doing drugs, making babies, while I work. Can you imagine how much money the States would save if people had to pass a urine test to get a public assistance check? Pass this along if you agree or simply delete if you don't. Hope you all will pass it along, though. Something has to change in this Country . . . and soon. |
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cyborg
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Yeah that should do it. I have no problem with folks that want to do drugs they have that right, up until it affects me. These wastoids that are on the dole can afford all manner of luxuries because of the under the table dealings and then on top of that they get my hard earned dollars too. When I have to help finance their drug habit then I have the right to say something about it. DAMN STRAIGHT!!!!!!!!!
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lucytuma
Optics Jedi Knight Joined: November/25/2007 Location: Wisconsin Status: Offline Points: 5389 |
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Don't even get me started with the lazy, free loading people of this country, as far as I'm concerened they haven't even earned the time or space in this forum.
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"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." - Thomas Jefferson
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Chris Farris
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Excellent idea.
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BeltFed
Optics Retard Joined: February/12/2008 Location: Ky Status: Offline Points: 22284 |
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Antleraddiction (sounds like a drug problem to me) unless you are in one of those jobs that the SCOTUS says effects public safety (police, pilot, truck driver, etc.) I have a problem with drug testing. It takes a search warrent to search your house (4th amendment). Why shouldn't it take some level of probable cause to search the interior of your body.
While I agree there are slugs out there that don't deserve the services they recieve from the govt. I don't believe we should be giving up civil rights just to earn a living especially if you are not acting in a way that would cause concern.
I have heard of public schools systems that test kids for drugs in extra corricular activities are now considering testing the kids that just come to school. Whats next door to door random drug testing. Its a slippery slope.
I don't like drug use either, but we have a Bill of Rights and I am not willing to give them up to ensure that someone else does not do something stupid.
Thats my rant so I'll go now.
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Ed Connelly
Optics Retard God of no Chihuahua Joined: December/16/2007 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 24225 |
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" well, the good news, Mr. Johnson, is you passed the drug test......The bad news is --you're pregnant!"
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antleraddiction
Optics Apprentice Joined: January/27/2008 Location: North Carolina Status: Offline Points: 137 |
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No, BeltFed, you are in leftfield with your assumptions of me.............Get on your soap box and rant, as much as you feel like, just as I, and most "TAX PAYING AMERICANS" are doing these days. I'll withold my thoughts of your occupation, if you even have one........... I own my own business and my wife is a 4th grade public school teacher and you, not the kids, need to be tested if you think school systems are testing kids for drugs, LOL. Teachers are leaving the profession in droves because of idiots like you.............Keep watching TV and maybe it will all come true............. PS, enjoy your check
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pyro6999
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BeltFed
Optics Retard Joined: February/12/2008 Location: Ky Status: Offline Points: 22284 |
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Antleraddiction let me get this straight, you own your own buisness but your complaining because you have to take a drug test. Take a look at your user name, what does it implie? I do not make assumptions about you, I don't know you. As for drug testing kids in extracarricular activities, that is a fact, and I recently heard on the local news that one of these school systems was considering testing all students.
You also missed my point, which happens to be about giving up freedom for security. If I need to explain that point I will be glad to.
As for the personal attack thats OK in my occupation I'm used to it as I have to endure them by law. I have also passed all of my drug test.
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Life's concerns should be about the 120lb pack your trying to get to the top of the mountain, and not the rock in your boot.
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helo18
Optics Jedi Knight Joined: December/02/2006 Location: Montana Status: Offline Points: 5620 |
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Here is my opinion on drug testing.
An employer has the right to require drug testing. He is the one paying you the money, so he can give the requirements he chooses. He has the right to decide that he doesn't want a druggie working for him. If you don't want to get drug tested, go somewhere else.
As a public employee, you are getting paid through tax money. As tax payers, we are basically the employers, so we should have the right to demand that the people working for us aren't druggies, and therefore have the right to demand drug tests. If you don't like it, go somewhere else. BeltFed, as a law enforcement officer, I thank you for your service, but I am also glad that drug testing is required. I don't want druggie making rules for me, or in a position of power.
As for welfare (I have my opinions on welfare that I won't go into here). That is tax money as well. We should know that our money as tax payers isn't going to a bunch of druggies. If they don't like it, they can get a job.
My view on drugs? Do them if you want. But if it affects any other people other than yourself, then you are in the wrong. If you start affecting your neighbors, or especially your family, that is even worse. You are supposed to be an example for your family. If you hurt anyone, emotionally, or physically, due to your drug use, then you are the SCUM of the earth in my opinion.
Do your drugs if you want. Fight for no drug tests if you want. Call it the protection of your "civil liberties" if you want. Nothing good is going to come from drug use and addiction. Edited by helo18 - April/22/2008 at 22:36 |
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mercenary1947
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Hey I have no complaint of drug testing .... but I agree ..... anyone wishing to receive public funds contributed by the taxpayers should pass a drug test . Yet again the govt. is giving illegal aliens complete medical ... food and cash payments .... our economy is falling fast ... and that brain dead George Bush wanted to give them social security !!!
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8shots
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If kids do drugs at school, it does not only effect those kids, but all the others who are not doing drugs. Those not doing drugs have a right to a carefree, good education. Those kids doing drugs gave up their rights to everything the minute they started doing drugs.
Kids doing drugs should be put in separate school where they can come and go as they like, without being searched if they so choose. In other words they should be permitted to stuff up their own lives without stuffing up the lives of those who do not do drugs.
As long as drugtakers, dealers and the like run around in an open society, it is the duty of the rest of us to protect our kids from scum like this. If it means stripping their rights (and that of a the innocent) then so be it. I can rant on some more, but my keyboard is overheating.....
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BeltFed
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Helo this is not about being able to use drugs. This is about the loss of civil rights. We complain about the liberals taking our 2nd amendment rights away. We complain because the DC police want to search homes for guns. We even complain about political correctness and how it violates free speech. But say the word drugs and all logic goes out the window.
You wouldn't let a police officer come to your door and say " your number came up so we're going to search your house for anything illegal, after all if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear". For now at least he needs a warrent based on probable cause. If they went to your neighbors house and said " your number came up and we're goimg to search your house for drugs" would you say to your neighbor "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear", and he was such a good neighbor, never caused any problems. I know everyone is saying "It's not happening here", but we are headed that way.
There are school systems that drug test kids in extracurricular activities that now want to test all the kids that attend the school. While you may not see a problem with that because its drugs. I see a problem because it is a government agency searching a person's body for evidence without even probable cause. Why don't you just give the DEA your medical records and a blood sample or just let them take it. Now the BEM that started this thread wants to test people receiving government checks. I'm sure it was just in fun, but all this testing crap is getting out of hand.
It is one thing to test people who are responsible for the public safety, and yes an employer can legally test his employees. But I wonder how you really feel about someone else dictating to you how you live your life on your own time.
Helo I know you have to pee in a cup from time to time and you may not worry about it because you have nothing to hide and the people taking the test are probably competent, and you trust them. I sweat everytime I have to pee in a cup but not from drug use. I sweat because I don't trust the people taking or evaluating the sample, and I do not trust my employer. I know they use drug test as an intemidation tool, and I have good reasons not to trust them that I will not get into.
The point is we are loosing our civil rights little by little because to many of us are saying I have nothing to hide and nothing to fear, or it doesn't effect me so why should I care. The fact is there are some mean, vicious, decieptful and skeeming people out there with good intentions and they work for a government. I have seen them and worked with some
It should not be up to you to prove your inocense. It is up to them to prove that you committed an offense. That is what the 5th Amendment is about.
By just trying to defend this position I have had people imply that I use drugs. Thats funny, because from 1989 to 1994 I fought the assault weapons ban, and people then implied that I must be some sociopathic revolutionary that wanted blood to run in the streets. Just because I wanted to defend and preserve a God given right to have a right to choose and be left alone if I'm not causing harm.
I wonder how many rights YOU are going let slip away before you ask where did your freedom go?
One last point. if you haven't noticed it yet the people in power (congress, president,and the people who run the company) don't get drug tested.
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Life's concerns should be about the 120lb pack your trying to get to the top of the mountain, and not the rock in your boot.
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Bigdaddy0381
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I wish it was handled this way. I also think if your getting FREE health care you should pass a yearly physical and if you smoke, drink, drugs ect... you shouldn’t be aloud to use it. Think of how fast the people would get there act together when they found out it's not free if they can't pass all the above guide lines. |
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helo18
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BeltFed, I did not mean to imply that you do drugs. If it came across that way, I am sorry. I have no doubt you are a stand up guy. And for what ever reason you don't trust the people that drug test you, I don't want to know. That is between you and them.
I will agree that our civil liberties are getting tossed out the window. And I would not allow the government to come into my house and search it without a warrant and probable cause. And I wouldn't allow them to demand that I take a drug test just so they have a record of it. That would be infringing on my freedoms. In that respect I agree with you.
When it comes to someone asking for a job or a service (welfare), the person providing that job or service has every right to put stipulations on it. Take a job for instance. You apply. They require you to be qualified for it. They may require a drug test. Then to get the benefits (retirement, health) you probably have a probation period, and to keep it all, more drug tests. If you want the job, you have to be willing to go through all that.
As for welfare, they are asking for money from the government and the people paying the taxes that provide the money. Why should we as tax payers not be able to pick the qualified candidates that ask for welfare? I think that if someone wants free money, they should have to prove that they are going to be responsible with it. To me that would include them not being a druggie, and getting wasted out of there mind all the time.
I work hard for my money. I pay my taxes. I have to be responsible with my money, and my belongings. I think the government should too. I don't think that the welfare system is being run responsibly. I don't want some low life drug addict getting my money so he can go out and get wasted and not contribute to society.
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Dogger
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Interesting topic see both sides but potential loss of rights should not be discounted too easily. Prospective employer asks for drug test, OK - how would you react if in doing that a DNA sample was also taken to keep on file, or fingerprints from the sample bottle you used?
Nothing to fear you say because I've nothing to hide? 1984 is here.
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Bigdaddy0381
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What gets me the most is that people forget that WE the PEOPLE pay for the government WE hire the government. But the government screws the people and We let it happen. They spend the money they TAKE from us like it's going out of style on things that they shouldn’t be and WE the people sit by and let it happen. The government has got to big. We the people shouldn’t drug test but if you’re on welfare, government paid health care I feel you should be tested. This is one small way WE know where the money THEY take from US on each paycheck is going and not being wasted but actually helping someone that truly needs it. But as for an employer yes I drug test I also send all my employees to a defensive driving class. This saves me a lot of money that I in return are able to pay them more for the job they are doing for me. |
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mercenary1947
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8shots ... I totally agree .... I live near what is considered a small town and the drug situation has become horrible . They have murders .... robberies ... and gang activity at a 500 % increase all drug related . This does not come from me ... but many local law enforcenent guys right here . We never had multiple head shot murders here ... now we do . People are so numb from them it does'nt raise the panic level anymore ! They're talked about so darn casually .... shocks me .... police say their hands are tied by lame judges and worrying about not violating the druggies rights . This whole country better wake up !!! We even have that latino gang 13 something .... the crypts .... and bloods .... and always some new york city gangs ..... christ you'd think it was LA - California !! Then the so called educated Maryland assembly says we can't carry firearms even in our vehicles unless
we are going to a shooting match or hunting under lock and key . They should tell that to the families of those poor innocent college girls being raped and murdered I see in the news every week now it seems .
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Big Daddy is the man....
(Thats an employer looking out for his employees) Edited by TPS_Phil - April/23/2008 at 17:52 |
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Sgt. D
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Because they got the money. They make the rules.
My comments don't offer much hope. But we don't give up. We continue to stand and make our voices heard as much as posible and we will atleast slow it down awhile longer.
Edited by Sgt. D - April/24/2008 at 22:08 |
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Take care of Soldiers, Show em how its done and do it with em, Run to the Fight & and hold your ground! I die my men go home! If you're a NCO and this ain't you. GET OUT! GOD BLESS AMERICA!
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