RULE MAKES NO SENSE

The Florida Legislature just passed a bill requiring all welfare
recipients to take periodic drug tests to receive their welfare
payments. The reasoning for this was that those on welfare receive
taxpayer money and we should take every precaution to safeguard that
money from possibly being used for buying drugs. Appellate courts
have already held laws of this nature unconstitutional because they
single out just one group of people.

It would appear that the way to correct this problem, and the logical
extension of that argument, should be that each legislator should be
required to also be part of a random drug testing program. They take
a lot more taxpayer dollars per person than any welfare recipient
does, and from the votes the majority made in this year's legislative
session, it's a reasonable request to make!

ERIC WEST, Daytona Beach