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Message: <blockquote data-quote="okie_gunslinger" data-source="post: 1621712" data-attributes="member: 12862">It irritates me to no end to see people abuse things like welfare and unemployment benefits. But the thing is those people are a very small percentage of the population. Florida is a great example of a get tough on crime bill that was sold to tax payers as a way to save the state money, but when you look at the numbers the only people benefiting from the bill are the drug test companies. With a 2% failure rate and a 2% decline rate the state is now having to pay for 96% of all drug screening for welfare applicants. It's doubtful that the few people that are turned away from the programs will pay for the added bureaucracy and cost of drug screening. Whats worse of that 2% that are declined there is no way to seperate the heavy drug users, like meth heads, from the recreational ones who only smoke pot.</blockquote>