Georgia Drug Testing Racket Catches Just One Person
by Deborah Caldwell
Conservatives seem convinced that most of the Americans who are unemployed are in that position because they’re lazy, not because 
they can’t find a job during worst recession since the Great Depression. So the Georgia Department of Labor concocted a scheme that would allow businesses to report to them if a job applicant failed a drug test. This was heralded by Georgia officials as a way to catch lazy unemployed people who were caricatured as as just sitting around and getting high, and weren’t serious about finding work.
So, was the program successful? Not at all according to Georgia Labor Department official Sam Hall.
“As a result of that one employer calling, we investigated and the person that had been reported was disallowed from continuing to receive benefits,” Hall said.
In addition to this program, the labor department has also begun a snitching program, which allows people to turn in benefit recipients who they believe are defrauding the program. Not much luck there either.
Hall seemed to suggest that the number of reports aren’t higher because many employers don’t go through the trouble of blowing the whistle on applicants.
“Obviously there would be some employers who would hesitate and some who would say, ‘Well, I’ve not hired the person and I’m going to move on,’ but we will appreciate any notice we get,” Hall said.
It’s probably much easier for Hall to hypothesize about why there aren’t more reports than to just admit that the program failed because most unemployed people aren’t druggies.
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Unemployment is caused by RACISM…
PB Short
February 8, 2013 at 9:42 pm
Agreed, PB Short! The ignorance of people in power is the main culprit which leads to failed and botched plots against those who have the least.
Racism is ignorance, are sometimes one in the same. And boy there is a lot of it in Georgia! I know When I first moved here from the Chicago area years ago, I was surprised that the confederate flag was posted on trucks and some even have the flag (a large one) hanging from the back. I want to tell them so bad, “Don’t you know that the flag you are waving is a loser’s flag? The confederacy lost, and the south is never going to rise again. Rhett and Scarlet have been dead for decades. Get over yourself, stop waiting for the revolution of blacks with your guns, and just learn to get along with everyone else. No one race is better than another. There are idiots, scumbags, degenerates in every race. So the best America that can be envisioned is one where we stop trying to tear down those who have been shown the least of care. Its hard to pick yourself up by your own bootstraps when you don’t have boots in the first place. Peace.
brainiacqueen
February 8, 2013 at 10:24 pm
Great comment …Hotep
Imhotep
February 9, 2013 at 11:04 am
@brainiacqueen – well put!
BaScOmBe
February 10, 2013 at 1:04 pm