{"id":24649,"date":"2014-12-27T15:55:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T20:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24649"},"modified":"2014-12-27T15:55:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-27T20:55:58","slug":"common-sense-comes-to-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24649","title":{"rendered":"Common Sense Comes To Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/dec\/27\/rick-snyder-signs-law-requring-drug-testing-for-we\/?\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Times<\/a> is reporting that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Governor of Michigan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Governor_of_Michigan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Michigan Governor<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Rick Snyder\" href=\"http:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Rick Snyder<\/a> has signed a law putting in place a new drug-testing <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Computer program\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Computer_program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">program<\/a> for welfare recipients.<\/p>\n<p>When you read the details of the program, you realize that it is intended to help those on welfare who have <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Physical dependence\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Physical_dependence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">drug dependency<\/a> problems, not penalize anyone. The article explains:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Welfare recipients or applicants suspected of drug use will be required to take a drug test. Anyone who refuses to take the test will be suspended from <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Welfare\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Welfare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">welfare benefits<\/a> for six months.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>If a person tests positive for drugs they will be referred to a treatment program and required to submit periodic <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Drug test\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drug_test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">drug tests<\/a>. Refusal to participate in the rehab program will result in a termination of welfare benefits. But benefits can be restored after a person submits a clean drug test.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Welfare in many cases has been abused and used as an excuse to stay drugged and not work. This program is a step toward helping people end drug dependency and become working members of society. This needs to be done in all states.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Washington Times is reporting that Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has signed a law putting in place a new drug-testing program for welfare recipients. When you read the details of the program, you realize that it is intended to help &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24649\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8562,8561,144,4526,8563],"class_list":["post-24649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-drug-dependency","tag-drug-test","tag-michigan","tag-rick-snyder","tag-welfare-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24650,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24649\/revisions\/24650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}