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from the unreasonable-searches-and-seizures dept.
Via Common Dreams, the American Civil Liberties Union reports
[December 3], a three-judge panel at the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that a 2011 Florida law mandating that all applicants for the state's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program submit to suspicion-less drug tests violates the Constitution's protection against unreasonable government searches.
[...]The 11th Circuit panel's order rejects arguments made by attorneys for the State of Florida that government has the authority to require people to submit to invasive searches of their bodily fluids without suspicion of wrongdoing, stating "the warrantless, suspicionless urinalysis drug testing of every Florida TANF applicant as a mandatory requirement for receiving Temporary Cash Assistance offends the Fourth Amendment."
[...]A 2012 review of the TANF mandatory urinalysis program found that the state of Florida spent more money reimbursing individuals for drug tests than the state saved on screening out the extremely small percentage.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by edIII on Thursday December 04 2014, @11:56PM
You missed one of the largest misconceptions. That when looked at across the board, irrespective of petty concerns over deservedness, do we find a net positive result? The misconception is both one of scale (the near willful ignorance of the larger picture for others) and measure (failing to realize we are still better off with her like that).
When we ignore the poor so brutally, we create nothing but animals needing to be handled like animals. That's never a good idea with the most dangerous predator the planet Earth has ever seen. Just in pure actual numbers measuring our environmental carnage.
Perhaps it's better to swallow our pride and realize that one way or the other we will be dealing with these welfare queens and their generational breeding of entitlement. That's solved through education and community outreach, and god forbid, concepts like restorative justice.
This is anathema to some of those people in politics as they wish to turn the United States of America into one large corporate controlled sterile zone. If you couldn't make there, well then, you didn't deserve to be human, and you're being deported for vagrancy. Somewhat hyperbole, somewhat serious. I honestly don't know if these people give any consideration on where these "people" go after they are cut off from resources (even if the recipient is a human waste of skin). Do they think it's a playground where the offending child is just magically removed from recess?
Whatever you do, the end result is a human being living in harsh and scary conditions. That's just stupid and begging for crime. Either that, or we get to sleep at night knowing people are actually dying a little bit faster each day. Those would be amazing human beings too. To die quietly in the street with dignity all while strictly keeping compliance with all local laws and ordinances.
That's the greatest misconception; Our social programs have no value beyond the immediate relief provided, and that they can simply disappear overnight or at all.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.