It’s so consistent, isn’t it? The way their entire focus is on the idea that some undeserving “other” is sucking up your money:
Wisconsin could have one of the nation’s most sweeping drug-testing requirements for those receiving public benefits if the proposal by Gov. Scott Walker to test those who apply for unemployment checks and food stamps becomes law.
But with scant details, it’s unclear whether any expansion beyond the current testing of drug felons would be allowed under federal law governing the state’s FoodShare program. It’s also unclear how Wisconsin could craft any broad-based testing program for public benefits recipients that would be found constitutional.
The newly re-elected governor and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, both say a top priority of the upcoming legislative session is to require that recipients receiving food assistance and unemployment compensation be drug free to qualify for benefits.
In Wisconsin, an estimated 836,000 people receive FoodShare benefits, about 40 percent of them children, according to the state Department of Health Services. As of last week, 39,958 people had filed weekly unemployment compensation claims, according to the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development.
Keeping with the theme of scummy Republicans sucking up our money, we all know that John McCain is fucking nuts. But he and the other neo-cons have been successful in pressuring Obama to send another 1500 combat troops into Iraq. That’ll make 3100 so far. The neo-con interventionists have already forced Obama to leave 10,000 combat troops behind in Afghanistan at a yearly cost of $30 billion dollars. They will unrelentingly lobby to have him build the US force in Iraq to 10,000 combat troops. At a cost of an additional $30 billion dollars a year. That’s $60 billion dollars wasted on the for-profit military industrial corporations listed on the stock exchange. You can bet your ass that if Hillary is elected president she’ll send lots more troops into Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and anywhere else McCain and Panetta tell her to.