BeckyOzuna's Blog

Becky,

Because we have been manipulated by others self serving beliefs and agendas and forced to take a test that CAN NOT show if a person is or is not under the influence of drugs, just to feed our families why would we want to spread this abuse of freedom?

Did you know there IS NOT a UA that can tell if a person is under the influence of drugs! So how utterly dishonest is it claim it is for work place safety??? How does knowing a person smoked a joint "" 90 DAYS "" ago stop ignorance from happening today??? The reality is due to this disgusting violation of freedoms, our workers have been forced to HARD DRUGS that are out of their system in 3 days. So how was this a good thing? If your employer can dictate what you do off the clock, then why doesn't he pay you 24/7? Didn't slavery go out about 200 years ago, or do we still owe our souls and now our PEE to the company store??? What happened to a fair days for fair wages, and everybody minded their own business?

The reality is the UA is used to deny and escape liability and accountability while dropping insurance rates. Those who claim they have no problem with this abuse of freedom, sold out.

Now as for welfare, those who work and pay for it want it used for food and things that are needed, not for self pleasure if it be alcohol or drugs, right. Do we want to force people to hard drugs in attempt to achieve an unattainable goal?? What happens to those that we have manipulated in to believing they are demons and not worthy of helping, unless they live their lives as we see fit? What happens to the kids who h

Rusty, I have to take exception with some of the phrasing you use. "These people"? I too believe there should be a better way to monitoring welfare recipients checks, Lonestar cards, or whatever you want to call it. Anyone can better their life if they so choose. Maybe it is too easy to stay on welfare, maybe welfare money does go into drugs instead of buying children food and clothing. You obviously never saw the article the young teen in California wrote to win a contest. the contest was "There ought to be a law." He was in a position to know and even he feels that welfare needs drug testing or better monitoring of some sort. When we are "giving" someone welfare you bet we have the right to monitor how it is spent.

When I was growing up my mother got food stamps to help feed me and my 4 brothers and sisters, she also worked as much as possible to support us, my father was out of the picture and not paying his child support. She didn't live off the system, she got help for what she needed and made a life for herself and us, she got off welfare when she was able to pay the bills on her own which incl. a mortgage that she alone paid.

I also know someone (my ex sister in law) who used welfare to sit on her lazy azz all day and do nothing, she took the money, housing etc. had a boyfriend living with her who worked and dealt drugs and help pay the very very low rent. She abused the system.

My point, yes, they do need to monitor welfare recipients, do surprise home visits to see what is going on etc. There are good people who need it to give them a leg up and then there are people who just live off OUR money.

City Mouse, you made some valid points. One point in particular was that your Mom got off welfare as soon as she could support her family, which is the way it should be. I, too, believe that welfare should have a time limitation except in extenuating circumstances. I hear that part of the problem is that people can make more money having children, having no father present than going to work. People have to want better for themselves and have to have some pride. Yes, day care is expensive, and maybe that is an area that could change. Welfare abuse is rampant and needs to be overhauled.

Valid point, yet I think you are missing the issue.
The issue isn't the passing of any laws which will curb our freedoms (we are all against that, I hope). The issue is whether those who have voluntarily given up the right to control their own life have any claim or excuse to abuse the system.
Giving a welfare recipient a drug test is not the same as being able to storm their house. Not even close. There is no slippery slope here. It is merely to avoid abuse of the system. Ask yourself this:
Why should those getting money from the government be excluded from the laws we taxpayers have to follow and the guidlines we must live by?
I am subject to random drug tests at my job and that does not give my employer the right to do anything other than to make certain I am awake and aware while on my employers payroll. The same should be true of welfare recipients. If I do not want to subject myself to a drug test, then I have the choice to work somewhere else. If those on welfare do not want to be tested, they can choose not to be on welfare.
To say they are being singled out for any reason doesn't make sense. To say they are less than human for being subjected to the same thing we taxpayers have to endure does not make sense. Either it's a level playing field or it isn't.

Delusion,

Every time we give the government power they abuse it. Are you old enough to remember how it went with seat belt laws? First EVERYBODY had a choice as all those public servants swore they would NEVER by themselves be a reason for being stopped, RIGHT! Next it went to, if your stopped for something else, and don't have it on, then you can get a ticket. "" NOW "" their TRUE intentions are a LAW, it is a 200 DOLLAR fine, and used to EVENT probable cause!

DID YOU GET TO VOTE ON THESE FORCED UA LAWS, "" I DIDN'T "" ! If your FORCED to take a test to have a job, and this test CAN NOT tell or PROVE if you are under the influence, how does that guarantee anything, much less make sure one is a wake or aware??? One can be HIGH and take a UA, and it still CAN NOT be used as proof that person is under the influence, FACT! Does it matter to you if a Free American drank two beer "" 90 DAYS AGO ""? Another sad reality is, people can do HARD DRUGS, and pee in anybodies bottle 3 days later. So if your going to make choices other don't like, and want to keep feeding your family, which one have you been FORCED to, to minimize your chance of losing your job??? You say go work some where else, so you believe those with money that a worker trades their sweat, blood and many times their lives, can have that job, as long as they are willing to SUBJUGATE themselves to the beliefs of others on and “”off “” the clock 24/7 364 days a year??? Did not slavery go out 200 years ago, oh that right you said one has a choice, REALLY! When insurance companies control the rates, and the go

To One and All,


Are you people of faith? If so is not the "" AMIGHTY "" all knowing and never wrong or to be over ruled my man? So you believe " HE " doesn't have the right nor smarts to decide who he has granted LIFE TO?? And that man can STEAL his gift of children to the ones " HE " chose to give them to? Simply for using a plant that " HE " can only create, and that " HIS " teaching say are a GIFT TO ALL???

Sadly I must say you are a product of YEARS of fear mongering and mind conditioning. To the point all those who make choices you have been taught to fear and hate, are DEMONS not worthy of having "" GODS "" gift of life!!! It is a FAR REACH between abusing children, and simply making personal and private choices other are taught and conditioned to fear and hate or simply don't like!

Are there times the safety of children are REAL reasons to protect them, YOU BET! But to do so simply because they make choice others don't like while harming NO ONE, will bring the RATH OF THE "" ALMIGHTY "" on judgment day! I for one don't believe " HE " is going to do good, with man claiming he is to stupid to decide who should have children, much less accepting man claiming sole possession over the gifts only " HE " can create, and then using them as weapons against his flock, to the point of destroying families!!!

IMHO, "" ALL "" who have been taught with fear and hate, to the point they believe they have the right to over rule the "" ALMIGHY "", will one day pay, and rightfully so! Why don’t you go ahead and take the children from those who simply make the choices

The real problem is the THC test. We can all go around and around about what's fair and not fair but if you stop and think for a moment the test is a violation of our rights in the first place. THC has never killed anyone but cocaine has. It's all about governmental control once again and set up by our endless health insurance standards. I'm not speaking up for the dummies that toke before work but the people that do like to have an occasional off the clock smoke can no longer do so without risking their jobs. I think it stinks personally and will never budge on this one. Just another way to peek in our bedrooms without actually being there!

I guess she hit a nerve. In the corporate world they stick you with a needle and delve back a lot further than a lousy 3 days. I can't tell you how many people I know that have lost their jobs over this. I'm not talking about uneducated people either, but intelligent and well respected people. I don't know about you but I've never heard of anyone blowing their brains out coming off pot. Our wonderful world however is filled with mindless robots on antidepressant drugs and pain meds while driving to work! These timebombs can go off any time anywhere and we're worried about a joint on someone's off time? Oh brother....

Red-Dog1,

If you choose to give up your freedoms, I feel for you. You DO NOT have the right to speak for me nor give up anybody else’s freedoms. PERIOD! What happens to the children of those you throw in the gutter for simply making choice you or I wouldn't? Why is it ANYBODIES business what one does OFF THE CLOCK? Do you really accept others controlling your life and body?

Simple steps lead to an accumulation of hidden agendas! Things are not always as they appear, “” Simple supposed well meaning laws, are pieced together into HUGE TYRANNIES “! I guess you would accept those who worked all their lives and paid into Social Security, to be denied it after retiring too?? What an easy way for these political parasites to SOVEL the problem right! BECAREFUL WHAT YOU ASK FOR!!!