OMG! Sounds like if Mitt Romney is elected President he will push to have everyone who gets government benefits, which would include Social Security and Medicare benefits from the government, tested for drugs. Presumably anyone who tests positive will be fined or maybe even thrown out of the program.
Here's the quote from Mitt himself:
Georgia’s controversial plan to mandate drug testing for all welfare recipients and other beneficiaries of government assistance got a big endorsement on Friday from Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney.
On a local NBC affiliate in Georgia, Romney said that he supported the measure:
Jeff Hullinger: [Lawmakers] have bantered about the proposition that welfare recipients should be drug tested. How do you feel about that?
Mitt Romney: Well my own view is, it’s a great idea. People who are receiving welfare benefits, government benefits, we should make sure they’re not using those benefits to pay for drugs. I think it’s an excellent idea. [emphasis added]
Mitt might try to argue that he was only referring to those on welfare, but I'm going all Fox News on this. If a Democrat had made the same statement, Fox News would spend the next week screaming on the air that 'Obama wants to test seniors on Social Security for drugs and throw them out of the program if they test positive'. That's how Fox News keeps their viewers outraged and hating the black Kenyan who stole their country's Presidency. That's how Republicans win elections.
--Trakker
'Obama wants to test seniors on Social Security for drugs and throw them out of the program if they test positive'
And now you're emulating those you claim are overstating the little o;s views?
Pot, meet kettle.
Posted by: Ted McG | February 18, 2012 at 05:19 PM
Bwahahaha. I went out of my way to explain that in this post that I was treating this issue like Fox News would if a Democrat had made the statement (see the last paragraph), and you still didn't get it. Or maybe you didn't even read the post before commenting.
Posted by: Trakker | February 18, 2012 at 07:09 PM
Oh I read it - imitate Fox? FAIL!
Ya get an F on that assignment.
Posted by: Ted McG | February 20, 2012 at 01:23 PM