Another week, another likely illegal proposal from the Republicans. Now, to add to the indignity of not being able to find work, the Joint Finance Committee endorsed a proposal (in the budget, mind you) to require the unemployed to pee into a cup, so to speak. If a drug test is failed, or if the individual even refuses to submit to this affront, unemployment benefits could be suspended for a year (JS Online). A spokesman for the US Labor Department said, "Requiring a person to take a drug test as a condition of eligibility is not related to the 'fact or cause' of a person's unemployment and would raise an issue under federal law." And, in the same article, the ACLU rep says such testing should only be related to business or health or safety-related issues.
And this is in the same week in which running fake candidates in recall elections may not be illegal, nor are once-GOP-criticized late night meetings to approve things such as vouchers in Green Bay, and in the week the lock-step conservative Supreme Court may not find open meetings violations illegal.
Whew! That's a busy week. Even for Republicans.
And it's only Tuesday.
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