Wow, someone with the same outlook as me. I agree totally with the sentiment. As for politicians, we give the Wunderlick test to prospective NFL players to test their intelligence and ability to understand basic instructions. Why cannot we give something similar to politicians. I guess not because most Democrats would fail miserably and some of the Republicans also. As for welfare, my wake up was when I shopping at a local store in 2005. I was behind a young lady with a full basket that used an EBT card for her groceries. I only had a few items, so I was out the door right behind her. She put her groceries into a brand new Chevy Silverado. I meanwhile, hopped into my 10 year old Ford pickup. I help pay for those benefits and they drive nicer vehicles than I do. I don't want to lower myself to their levels to drive a nicer vehicle, but it is hard to fathom that as a society, we have stooped to this level of wealth redistribution. I have since paid off a lot of my debt and now drive a newer truck, but it took effort on my part to accomplish this, no welfare, just hard work. Everything I have is due to my own efforts, despite the fact the the government takes more and more of my earnings to distribute to others who decided that they did not want to participate in that type of effort.

Well...you're the livestock. There are looters, moochers and producers. You are a producer and, therefore, must play by more rules in order to secure your right to work for a few extra pennies in the hopes that your kids might be able to go to college someday. Those others, the moochers and looters...well, it's important to them that you keep working. They are on the other team now. So, pee in that cup like a good cow.

I work in IT. Drug testing is pretty much the norm for companies over a certain size and any of them that do any government work. Most of the time the grub testing is insurance mandated more than anything else. After all, were I to make a mistake because I am lit up it would not cost any lives.

I agree with you.

Drug addicts, the next protected class.

Personally I don't care you someone wants to fumble through life stoned out of their lack of mind, but I do object to having to pay for it. The grubment likes it because they are easy to control.

just imagine how many people who administer the welfare program would be out of work(?) if we do the right thing and eliminate all welfare. where would they go what would the do, oh my gosh it would be jus the worst thing in the world for them. why should I worry the "o" wil take care of them.

This is another issue that would probably be resolved if politicians had term limits. If once elected they could concentrate on serving in they're positions to the best of their ability instead worrying about their next reelection, politicians wouldn't have to be pandering for votes with stupid policies.

The argument I get all the time is that if we switch to term limits, we would loose all that experience the life long politician has achieved. Really? Think about it, would that be such a great loss to the country? How many Mooches do we now have Washington?

Another argument is that you can't really do anything in one or two terms. I believe that if an elected official isn't worth their pay the first term, they don't deserve a second term.

Term limits would open the field up for the John Galts of America and give them a chance to run for office, make their mark and return to what they do best that made them a John Galt.

Term limits: Two terms max in a position; no retirement for only one term; no full retirement after serving the max two terms. Then go back to your regular work.

I am against mandatory drug testing. I don't care if you have some blood contaminant some people have chosen to focus on as long as you can do your job. Tighten up the welfare and this wouldn't be an issue. If an individual boss wants this to be a policy, that's his choice, but I don't think it makes the workforce better. If they do pass a law to make urine tests mandatory for welfare recipients then they should force Congress and the President to do it as well. That's fair.

on the surface, it seems reasonable, but I think it invites more problems. It's part of the War on Drugs. the original problems are welfare state and immigration issues. Should we also have people on unemployment submit to drug testing? How easy is it to work around those tests? should we just go around the urine test and require blood tests for more accuracy? It's a slope. I am against corporate drug testing as a choice. I would not say a company cannot ask it as a contractual deal. But that's not what the issue is. This was all a push under Reagan and the war on drugs and to be honest large companies do it because laws to fire have become more difficult.

I cannot tell you how many I have had and passed. I have said other times we are regulated to the extreme. I also agree give them the test, but not by the Feds. They cannot get out of their own way much less pass a Drug Test. Many have said to get involved with the drug crowd gives to much competition to the govment. Would that not be a novel idea. Post the list of people being tested in a Free Press system ie. Brietbart. followed by the results. Can you not hear Pelosi, Reid, Obama, Boehnor etc. etc. etc. Their words "What have We become?

Well put.

Clearly yes!

Oklahoma did it and I want to say that it is saving them over $300,000 per month on welfare checks from people that failed their drug test. I want to say that there are a couple of other states that have adopted the same law. I know AZ has a law in the state house that will require drug testing to get a welfare check.

The "welfare organizations"(really, there are such things out there) would raise hell if drug testing for welfare benefits were required. It has been attempted in some states and due to the expense of court battles to establish testing as a prerequisite to benefits, those states gave up. No doubt the money funding the fight for the moochers came from the left in power to keep the status quo. Its all about generating votes from the moochers which paying them off with free stuff.

I agree with you wholeheartedly, but the part about politicians really struck home. I've been saying those things for many years, mostly to deaf ears. I used to wonder if any politicians, or judges, or for that matter so-called "public servants" really know or understand the founding principles of our country, the Constitution. I no longer wonder. They don't. As to intelligence, a few of them have it. Many who do, apply it in devious ways for their own benefit. Such acts are purely evil. And, as I'm sure many of you know, common sense is not very common.