The mantra makers vs. takers has been increasing in its usage and effectiveness in recent years. The image of a person on welfare has gone from that of a single mother working multiple low-paying jobs and still not being able to fully support she and her kids to one of a person laying on the couch, watching game-shows, while smoking weed. This image distortion has led to states either pursuing or successfully proposing and enacting laws to drug-test people on welfare. They claimed that this distorted image of those on welfare was an accurate one, that we'd prevent many drug users from receiving our taxpayer money, and would save a great deal of money in the process. Upon further inspection, these claims and predictions haven't rung true. Florida was the first state to enact such a law. How is it doing? Not great... Before Judge Mary S. Scriven of the Federal District Court decried the law as being unconstitutional, 4,086 such drug-tests were documented. Of those 4,086 potenti...
Randomness. Politics. Songs. Poetry. Short Stories. Essays. Satire. Research. Sarcasm. A mix of Jon Stewart, George Carlin, Weird Al Yankovic, The Onion, FactCheck.org, and Gandhi. former co-host of "The Tracy & Craig Show" (which had previously been called "The Tracy Fort Show") and current host of "I Feel Snitty," author of the "LOL at the GOP" series, and Donald Trump's worst nightmare (besides facts).