I love this.
After watching and listening to members of Congress the past 8 years I think most of them are smoking crack.
“If states can drug test low-income residents seeking welfare assistance, why can’t they do the same for members of the one percent asking for hefty federal tax deductions?”
We can easily afford to help the poor.
It’s the rich that’ll bankrupt us.
Ah Ha hahahaha! I love this. Yes, Rep. Moore!! Congresswoman Gwen Moore!!
while I absolutely agree with this here’s another part of the irony(?)
because I take Norcos due to lupus and rheumatoid arthritis I have to pee in a cup every 3 months or so to make SURE that I’m taking them and not just selling them out on the street…
it also serves as verification that I didn’t OD and that I’m still alive
Same here. I am on a narcotic for the rest of my life due to my neuro conditions – and I have to pee is a cup every few months as well. This is only fucking fair!! Do it!!
Also just wanted to do a fist-bump (or a belly bump, whichever) – my conditions are almost exactly like RA (also MS). One of the meds I am on for life (so far, anyway) is Lyrica, one many with RA know all too well.
Brilliant! Yes please. Fuck 'em.
You can never be too sure.
(I’m surprised the GOP-ers haven’t used this argument for the food-stamp tests. “It’s for their own good!”)
Had to go CPMC ER the other Sunday and they gave me intravenous Dilaudid for the pain, didn’t think I’d live to tell about it. It was excessive for the ailment I came in for
Thinking … thinking … you know, yes – fuck them! Fuck them every year for these enormous tax breaks … well, I mean “probe” them. For their own good, you see, we need to make sure they’re healthy enough to receive said tax break, so we need to make sure they aren’t at risk for colon cancer or prostate cancer, or vaginal cancer, etc. From here forward, to receive these enormous tax cuts, tax breaks, etc., one must submit to a urine test every six months and hole probing once a year. Bubba*, the biggest dude you’ve ever seen–BIG hands–will handle the prostate exams.
*No relation to Donald J. Trump
Moore told the Guardian she was “sick and tired, and sick and tired of being sick and tired, of the criminalization of poverty.” Me, too - and this congresswoman has a terrific way with words.
I hope you’re okay now. Dilaudid is some serious stuff … good stuff, but serious stuff.
I’m fine, and if and when the ailment strikes again I know how to treat it without leaving home.
How does The Guardian cover Milwaukee politicians better than the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel? Some heads ought to roll in Brew Town.
Alas, this is one of those ideas that sounds outlandish because we’re so unused to hearing common sense. No chance to pass, but I love the gesture.
this is a great idea. No reason it shouldn’t be the law.
You know that old line, “The law treats rich and the poor equally, and if a rich or a poor man gets arrested for sleeping under a bridge, he gets the same treatment as the poor man”. Well, if the rich man is doing drugs, he also should get the same treatment as the poor man who shoots up.
I like the minimum income for all idea that’s starting to make the rounds.
No micromanaging. No drug testing. No restrictions on what people can purchase. Let’s treat adults like adults, shall we?
Wow.