I love talking about politics. I love comedy. But most of all I love comedians talking about politics. I think comedians have a unique way of pointing out things that are so ridiculous that we have to laugh because if anybody else says it you might just cry. Take for example, the issue of mandating welfare recipients to submit to drug testing. Proponents of such a measure would have you believe that most welfare recipients are defrauding the hard-working taxpayers by using their needs-based benefits for drugs and all manner of the debauchery. As one of the aforementioned hard-working taxpayers I don't like the idea of someone using my tax dollar in a way that it was not intended. Though I'm sure that some people do use part of their welfare check to abuse drugs or alcohol, the statistics do not support a law mandating drug tests to prevent it. Especially when it costs more money to implement the law than it saves. If the goal is to prevent fraud waste and abuse, perhaps we should take a closer look at Medicaid and Medicare fraud, or even those lovely earmarks that elected officials like to sneak into bills to fund bridges to nowhere. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a smokescreen. Instead of focusing on real, hard pressing issues, some in elected office would have you distracted with nonissues like the prevalence of drug abuse by welfare recipients. Daily Show “reporter”, Aasif Mandvi, recently asked Florida elected officials to submit to a drug test. The stated goal behind mandating drug tests for welfare recipients is to assure taxpayers that their money is not being used for drugs. Since these elected officials’ salaries are paid for by taxes, Aasif Mandvi asked them to submit a sample to assure the voting public that they were not abusing drugs. The hypocritical response is rather funny... And sad.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-february-2-2012/poor-pee-ple?xrs=share_copy
