23.5% of Welfare Rec. in NC Test Positive for Drugs

[Ravi]

Street sales are for stupid college and high school kids, hard up junkies and blacks.

I love how you separated out blacks from college, high school, and junkies.

 

[BluesLegend]

Well, life is hard and sometimes people do drugs to make it a little easier. Maybe if you raised the minimum wage or fought to get more of the profit going to the workers. Well, maybe there'd be a lot less people on it.

Look fool maybe you could live on $15 an hour back in 1980 but its slave wages today, libs and their plans for failure.

A kid should be THRILLED to be making $15 hr. and an adult making that much should have made better choices or better be working towards getting the fuck out of that job.

No one is a slave. You want to quit, save up and keep looking for another job.

Oh please blacks don't call it the Democratic Party Plantation for nothing.

 

[Meathead]

Street sales are for stupid college and high school kids, hard up junkies and blacks.

I love how you separated out blacks from college, high school, and junkies.

Don't be disingenuous. You hate it because that is the truth.

Street sales are for stupid college and high school kids, hard up junkies and blacks.

I love how you separated out blacks from college, high school, and junkies.

Sorry, I didn't mean to exclude blacks from college and high school. I meant desperate white kids looking for a high Everyone knows you don't cop from blacks for value. Blacks get screwed, but they have no choice.

 

[Correll]

An interesting article designed for dumbed down liberals which states that only 0.3% of those screened tested positive. Now, I would like to challenge those with US public education to figure out this paragraph of the article:

From the 7,600 recipients and applicants given an initial screening, social workers referred only 2% for drug testing. That amounted to 89 people. Of those 89, 21 people tested positive for drugs, representing less than 0.3% of the total number of those screened.

North Carolina reveals results of welfare applicant drug tests

Wow. That is some EXCELLENT LIBERAL STATISTICS.

 

[Correll]

Well, life is hard and sometimes people do drugs to make it a little easier. Maybe if you raised the minimum wage or fought to get more of the profit going to the workers. Well, maybe there'd be a lot less people on it.

Scientific studies show that the real cause of such social dysfunction is illegitimacy.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

An interesting article designed for dumbed down liberals which states that only 0.3% of those screened tested positive. Now, I would like to challenge those with US public education to figure out this paragraph of the article:

From the 7,600 recipients and applicants given an initial screening, social workers referred only 2% for drug testing. That amounted to 89 people. Of those 89, 21 people tested positive for drugs, representing less than 0.3% of the total number of those screened.

North Carolina reveals results of welfare applicant drug tests

hey, dumbass, you left out the part of your link that says:

"From the 7,600 recipients and applicants given an initial screening, social workers referred only 2% for drug testing. That amounted to 89 people. Of those 89, 21 people tested positive for drugs, representing less than 0.3% of the total number of those screened."

again, moron. that;s less than 0.3% of the total number.

clearly either your reading skills are woefully inadequate or you're just a garden variety wing nut liar.

If 89 people were tested for drugs and 29 were postive thats not 0.3%. Without knowing what they mean by "initial screening" these numbers are worthless.

 

[rightwinger]

Well, life is hard and sometimes people do drugs to make it a little easier. Maybe if you raised the minimum wage or fought to get more of the profit going to the workers. Well, maybe there'd be a lot less people on it.

Look fool maybe you could live on $15 an hour back in 1980 but its slave wages today, libs and their plans for failure.

A kid should be THRILLED to be making $15 hr. and an adult making that much should have made better choices or better be working towards getting the fuck out of that job.

No one is a slave. You want to quit, save up and keep looking for another job.

Oh please blacks don't call it the Democratic Party Plantation for nothing.

I don't see any blacks calling it that....only illiterate conservatives

Still looking for what Republicans have offered black communities other than more prisons

 

[rightwinger]

An interesting article designed for dumbed down liberals which states that only 0.3% of those screened tested positive. Now, I would like to challenge those with US public education to figure out this paragraph of the article:

From the 7,600 recipients and applicants given an initial screening, social workers referred only 2% for drug testing. That amounted to 89 people. Of those 89, 21 people tested positive for drugs, representing less than 0.3% of the total number of those screened.

North Carolina reveals results of welfare applicant drug tests

hey, dumbass, you left out the part of your link that says:

"From the 7,600 recipients and applicants given an initial screening, social workers referred only 2% for drug testing. That amounted to 89 people. Of those 89, 21 people tested positive for drugs, representing less than 0.3% of the total number of those screened."

again, moron. that;s less than 0.3% of the total number.

clearly either your reading skills are woefully inadequate or you're just a garden variety wing nut liar.

If 89 people were tested for drugs and 29 were postive thats not 0.3%. Without knowing what they mean by "initial screening" these numbers are worthless.

The 89 tested for drugs were those who were at the highest risk of being drug users.....those with previous convictions

So of 89 known drug users, it was found that 23% still used drugs

 

[rightwinger]

An interesting article designed for dumbed down liberals which states that only 0.3% of those screened tested positive. Now, I would like to challenge those with US public education to figure out this paragraph of the article:

From the 7,600 recipients and applicants given an initial screening, social workers referred only 2% for drug testing. That amounted to 89 people. Of those 89, 21 people tested positive for drugs, representing less than 0.3% of the total number of those screened.

North Carolina reveals results of welfare applicant drug tests

Wow. That is some EXCELLENT LIBERAL STATISTICS.

Winner, winner chicken dinner!

As another conservative demonstrates how little he knows about math

 

[Meathead]

An interesting article designed for dumbed down liberals which states that only 0.3% of those screened tested positive. Now, I would like to challenge those with US public education to figure out this paragraph of the article:

From the 7,600 recipients and applicants given an initial screening, social workers referred only 2% for drug testing. That amounted to 89 people. Of those 89, 21 people tested positive for drugs, representing less than 0.3% of the total number of those screened.

North Carolina reveals results of welfare applicant drug tests

Wow. That is some EXCELLENT LIBERAL STATISTICS.

Winner, winner chicken dinner!

As another conservative demonstrates how little he knows about math

Seriously? "Winner, winner chicken dinner!"

And yet your interbreading is in question?
.

 

[rightwinger]

An interesting article designed for dumbed down liberals which states that only 0.3% of those screened tested positive. Now, I would like to challenge those with US public education to figure out this paragraph of the article:

From the 7,600 recipients and applicants given an initial screening, social workers referred only 2% for drug testing. That amounted to 89 people. Of those 89, 21 people tested positive for drugs, representing less than 0.3% of the total number of those screened.

North Carolina reveals results of welfare applicant drug tests

Wow. That is some EXCELLENT LIBERAL STATISTICS.

Winner, winner chicken dinner!

As another conservative demonstrates how little he knows about math

Seriously? "Winner, winner chicken dinner!"

And yet your interbreading is in question?
.

I have to celebrate the ignorance of our conservative posters some way don't I?

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

An interesting article designed for dumbed down liberals which states that only 0.3% of those screened tested positive. Now, I would like to challenge those with US public education to figure out this paragraph of the article:

From the 7,600 recipients and applicants given an initial screening, social workers referred only 2% for drug testing. That amounted to 89 people. Of those 89, 21 people tested positive for drugs, representing less than 0.3% of the total number of those screened.

North Carolina reveals results of welfare applicant drug tests

hey, dumbass, you left out the part of your link that says:

"From the 7,600 recipients and applicants given an initial screening, social workers referred only 2% for drug testing. That amounted to 89 people. Of those 89, 21 people tested positive for drugs, representing less than 0.3% of the total number of those screened."

again, moron. that;s less than 0.3% of the total number.

clearly either your reading skills are woefully inadequate or you're just a garden variety wing nut liar.

If 89 people were tested for drugs and 29 were postive thats not 0.3%. Without knowing what they mean by "initial screening" these numbers are worthless.

The 89 tested for drugs were those who were at the highest risk of being drug users.....those with previous convictions

So of 89 known drug users, it was found that 23% still used drugs

So they didn't actually test the other 7511 applicants they just assumed they were clean and used that to come up with the 0.3%. That is some really bad statistical math.

 

[rightwinger]

An interesting article designed for dumbed down liberals which states that only 0.3% of those screened tested positive. Now, I would like to challenge those with US public education to figure out this paragraph of the article:

From the 7,600 recipients and applicants given an initial screening, social workers referred only 2% for drug testing. That amounted to 89 people. Of those 89, 21 people tested positive for drugs, representing less than 0.3% of the total number of those screened.

North Carolina reveals results of welfare applicant drug tests

hey, dumbass, you left out the part of your link that says:

"From the 7,600 recipients and applicants given an initial screening, social workers referred only 2% for drug testing. That amounted to 89 people. Of those 89, 21 people tested positive for drugs, representing less than 0.3% of the total number of those screened."

again, moron. that;s less than 0.3% of the total number.

clearly either your reading skills are woefully inadequate or you're just a garden variety wing nut liar.

If 89 people were tested for drugs and 29 were postive thats not 0.3%. Without knowing what they mean by "initial screening" these numbers are worthless.

The 89 tested for drugs were those who were at the highest risk of being drug users.....those with previous convictions

So of 89 known drug users, it was found that 23% still used drugs

So they didn't actually test the other 7511 applicants they just assumed they were clean and used that to come up with the 0.3%. That is some really bad statistical math.

It is pretty smart actually

Using your tax dollars wisely to concentrate your testing on known users. Similar plans in other states that randomly tested welfare recipients found very few users

 

[Arizona Willie]

An interesting article designed for dumbed down liberals which states that only 0.3% of those screened tested positive. Now, I would like to challenge those with US public education to figure out this paragraph of the article:

From the 7,600 recipients and applicants given an initial screening, social workers referred only 2% for drug testing. That amounted to 89 people. Of those 89, 21 people tested positive for drugs, representing less than 0.3% of the total number of those screened.

North Carolina reveals results of welfare applicant drug tests

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Well somebody is full of shit somewhere.

Every time they have tested welfare recipients in other state they found it was a waste of time. Almost none tested positive. Guess what Eating and paying rent beats getting high for them.

The numbers don't add up either.

It says they sent 89 people. But first it said they sent 2% for testing and 2% of 7600 people is 152 people NOT 89.

21 test positive which is 13% of those they sent for testing and only .0027631 of the total of 7600.

WHICH ONCE AGAIN IS ALMOST NONE.

QUIT LYING

 

[Meathead]

An interesting article designed for dumbed down liberals which states that only 0.3% of those screened tested positive. Now, I would like to challenge those with US public education to figure out this paragraph of the article:

From the 7,600 recipients and applicants given an initial screening, social workers referred only 2% for drug testing. That amounted to 89 people. Of those 89, 21 people tested positive for drugs, representing less than 0.3% of the total number of those screened.

North Carolina reveals results of welfare applicant drug tests

Wow. That is some EXCELLENT LIBERAL STATISTICS.

Winner, winner chicken dinner!

As another conservative demonstrates how little he knows about math

Seriously? "Winner, winner chicken dinner!"

And yet your interbreading is in question?
.

I have to celebrate the ignorance of our conservative posters some way don't I?

Celebrate? If you feel compelled to celebrate the failure of your own,

 

[Meathead]

An interesting article designed for dumbed down liberals which states that only 0.3% of those screened tested positive. Now, I would like to challenge those with US public education to figure out this paragraph of the article:

From the 7,600 recipients and applicants given an initial screening, social workers referred only 2% for drug testing. That amounted to 89 people. Of those 89, 21 people tested positive for drugs, representing less than 0.3% of the total number of those screened.

North Carolina reveals results of welfare applicant drug tests

===========

Well somebody is full of shit somewhere.

Every time they have tested welfare recipients in other state they found it was a waste of time. Almost none tested positive. Guess what Eating and paying rent beats getting high for them.

The numbers don't add up either.

It says they sent 89 people. But first it said they sent 2% for testing and 2% of 7600 people is 152 people NOT 89.

21 test positive which is 13% of those they sent for testing and only .0027631 of the total of 7600.

WHICH ONCE AGAIN IS ALMOST NONE.

QUIT LYING

25% of those test failed the drug test. Why is that so difficult to understand?

Taxpayers should not be subsiding the drug abuse of 25% of welfare recipients.

 

[BluesLegend]

Well, life is hard and sometimes people do drugs to make it a little easier. Maybe if you raised the minimum wage or fought to get more of the profit going to the workers. Well, maybe there'd be a lot less people on it.

Look fool maybe you could live on $15 an hour back in 1980 but its slave wages today, libs and their plans for failure.

A kid should be THRILLED to be making $15 hr. and an adult making that much should have made better choices or better be working towards getting the fuck out of that job.

No one is a slave. You want to quit, save up and keep looking for another job.

Oh please blacks don't call it the Democratic Party Plantation for nothing.

I don't see any blacks calling it that....only illiterate conservatives

Still looking for what Republicans have offered black communities other than more prisons

Got it, you are ignorant of a major black candidate who ran for president and frequently referred to the Democratic Party as the Democratic Party Plantation.

 

[Dovahkiin]

OP is misleading.

 

[80zephyr]

Tell me what this says?

During the period in which the law was in effect, 4,406 applicants submitted to drug testing. Only 108 — less than 3 percent — tested positive for drugs. Another 2,306 applicants failed to complete the applications or receive the drug screens.

“Viewing all of the facts in the light most favorable to the state, we agree with the district court that the state has failed to establish a demonstrable or peculiar drug-use problem among TANF applicants. If anything, the evidence extant suggests quite the opposite: that rates of drug use in the TANF population are no greater than for those who receive other government benefits, or even for the general public,” Marcus wrote.

Appeals Court: Welfare Drug Tests Unconstitutional

Mark

 

[Arizona Willie]

An interesting article designed for dumbed down liberals which states that only 0.3% of those screened tested positive. Now, I would like to challenge those with US public education to figure out this paragraph of the article:

From the 7,600 recipients and applicants given an initial screening, social workers referred only 2% for drug testing. That amounted to 89 people. Of those 89, 21 people tested positive for drugs, representing less than 0.3% of the total number of those screened.

North Carolina reveals results of welfare applicant drug tests

===========

Well somebody is full of shit somewhere.

Every time they have tested welfare recipients in other state they found it was a waste of time. Almost none tested positive. Guess what Eating and paying rent beats getting high for them.

The numbers don't add up either.

It says they sent 89 people. But first it said they sent 2% for testing and 2% of 7600 people is 152 people NOT 89.

21 test positive which is 13% of those they sent for testing and only .0027631 of the total of 7600.

WHICH ONCE AGAIN IS ALMOST NONE.

QUIT LYING

25% of those test failed the drug test. Why is that so difficult to understand?

Taxpayers should not be subsiding the drug abuse of 25% of welfare recipients.

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Once again, dumbass, get your fuckin' calculator out and have someone show you how to use it.

152 people were tested and 21 came up positive. 21 / 152 = .13185 --- nowhere near 25% it's 13%
and that is 13% of the small sample tested. It is only .002763157 of the total of 7600 people they pulled in.

ONCE AGAIN DUMBASS ... ALMOST NONE OF THEM TESTED POSITIVE.

Only 13% of the sample and two thousandths of a percent of the total 7600.

Even if the small sample was PERFECTLY representative of the whole group that would only be 988 out of 7600 which is 13% of the total and there is no evidence that that is the case.

Normally they would have selected those 152 people because they profiled them as being possible drug users but only 13% were. It is very likely there are drug users who weren't sent for testing but it would be a small small number.

THEY CAN'T AFFORD DRUGS