{"id":95964,"date":"2016-06-25T00:54:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T07:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=95964"},"modified":"2016-06-24T22:04:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T05:04:53","slug":"the-guy-responsible-for-poisoning-the-people-of-flint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2016\/06\/the-guy-responsible-for-poisoning-the-people-of-flint.html","title":{"rendered":"The guy responsible for poisoning the people of Flint"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u2026budget 300 hundred thousand dollars for testing poor people for drugs in order to pointlessly shame and humiliate them for needing to eat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/jun\/21\/michigan-welfare-drug-testing-program\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Result: zero positive test for drugs.<\/a>  He could have just checked with <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2015\/02\/26\/3624447\/tanf-drug-testing-states\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">several<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2016\/02\/07\/drug-testing-benefits-tennessee-yields-only-65-positives\/79776756\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">other<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2015\/02\/26\/3624447\/tanf-drug-testing-states\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">states<\/a> to see how well such moronic, wasteful and humiliating programs work and discovered ahead of time that they are a ridiculous waste.  But for the Party of Wrong About Everything, shaming and humiliating the poor is always money well spent and ideology is much more important than reality.<\/p>\n<p>Suggestion<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026budget 300 hundred thousand dollars for testing poor people for drugs in order to pointlessly shame and humiliate them for needing to eat. Result: zero positive test for drugs. He could have just checked with several other states to see how well such moronic, wasteful and humiliating programs work and discovered ahead of time that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[587],"class_list":["post-95964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-least-of-these"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The guy responsible for poisoning the people of Flint<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"...budget 300 hundred thousand dollars for testing poor people for drugs in order to pointlessly shame and humiliate them for needing to eat. 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