Some political circles that are hell-bent on reform, I cant see how their going to implement the screening? Drugs that come in all sorts, what one's are specifically targeted? Some Prescription medications have opiates/persuado-ephedrine-hydrochloride/ etc...The logic that applies to motor vehicles/ machinery/ must apply, however if one has no prospects of employment..eg..disability payments etc..I feel some maybe singled out.

Your thoughts.

Kat

Quoting from http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/stories-from-chelm

(the town of Chelm was renowned for its residents' [negative-amount-of] wisdom)

"In Chelm, the shammes (Jewish sexton) used to go around waking everyone up for minyan (prayer-quorum) in the morning. Every time it snowed, the people would complain that, although the snow was beautiful, they could not see it in its pristine state because by the time they got up in the morning, the shammes had already trekked through the snow. The townspeople decided that they had to find a way to be woken up for minyan without having the shammes making tracks in the snow.

The people of Chelm hit on a solution: they got four volunteers to carry the shammes around on a table when there was fresh snow in the morning. That way, the shammes could make his wake up calls, but he would not leave tracks in the snow."

So now, for every 10 dole-recipients of ~$15,000 p.a. they're going to hire a drugs-expert-contractor receiving ~150,000 p.a., thus doubling the financial burden of the dole on us, tax-payers.

Yet... a step towards full employment, isn't it?

My attitude depends on how its done. I like a lot of other workers ar subject to random drug and alcohol testing at work despite their not being any particular physical danger aspects to my work. Not something I agree with from a privacy perspective but its a fact of life for many workers.

Once or twice a year I may be tested as part of a random draw and can be tested on suspicion if I give the indication of being substance effected.

R0bert

So test the pollies before they enter Parliament.

For young unemployed & unemployable people we need a national service. Problem solved.

National service costs money. I don't see why i would be against drug testing.