stick it to their acts by making them pay into a cup twice a year well guess who put the idea in sjogren's head proposed this ridiculous plan a constituent who is sick of paying child support this is the job of the legislature to listen to constituents to work on their behalf when a constituent calls up and says i have an issue of like you have some have it looked at dealt with it's our job to consider those as the legitimate concerns of that citizen now it's also lawmakers job to use common sense determine if a voter's idea is just downright crazy but it's really fantastic to know that one constituent can influence a lawmaker so much that he just takes his or her policy proposals based directly on personal experience and then send them straight out over to the legislature big guy some lawmakers during a discussion of this amendment explain how absurd this would be if you don't know it in your opening statement you said acknowledge you don't know if this is really a problem other than maybe the first their trucks you this is not the public policy we want to proceed with when we know that i

we want to treat them like they're some sort of criminals but when you look closer turns out the sjogren's one of those republicans is all about drugs and seeing everybody that he sees being on the government dole or here i guess an ex husband or wife still in fact here's another proposal in the works would require welfare recipients to submit to random drug testing and we've seen legislation like that brought up in states like florida indiana and now possibly iowa and as we've spoken about many times on the show florida actually passed that law that drug tests of their welfare recipients and guess what it backfired in that state it turns out that only two percent of those who submitted to the drug tests actually came back positive ninety six percent of those on welfare came back clean and there was this other two percent they couldn't get results for so the link between drug use and welfare was shattered and a whole lot more state money aka taxpayer money was spent on doing all the drug testing and yet now we have this i meant it which is just another attempt by republican lawmakers to tr

government mandated child support to take care for kids thankfully voices of sanity a reason laughter sjogren's proposal for divorced parents forcing the state senator to kill it but if you have a question this one is unsettling money make you a criminal think about it people on welfare don't automatically labeled as druggies even though there is overwhelming well since for florida for example to prove that stereotype isn't true there's not a shred of evidence that women receiving child support decided on by good corage are druggies so why do laws like this one and i will keep popping up when he approaches some conservatives seems to be that if you're receiving money from the government from an ex-pat house your untrustworthy therefore you must be on drugs or you must be treated like some sort of criminal who by the country goes on corporate welfare the same way so for trying to stigmatize those receiving money in any form as drug. i was state senator mark shall bring to a time when or. now we all can talk about what's becoming or what becoming part of the largest prison population in the world