Mike Edwards
Broadcast Date: December 18, 2011
Gov. Bill Haslam rolled out a new video this week touting the progress he feels he made in moving Tennessee forward. Among the items he spoke about was education reform.
Gene Patterson's first guest this week has a perspective on that reform. He is one of the governor's newly appointed members of the state Board of Education, Mike Edwards, who is also the head of the Knoxville Chamber Partnership.
Later, two of our usual pundits -- 6 News political analyst George Korda and Cortney Piper of Piper Communications -- are joined for the first time by former Knox County Commissioner Mark Harmon.
Mark is the author of a new book called Crashing the Commission: Confessions of a University Twit.
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#1 Drug testing the welfare
The man and lady on the show today that are against drug testing the welfare are CRAZY. The comment on drug testing all of Tennessee was stupid. All companies in Tennessee have random drug testing policies, wether they use them or not. Why should my hard earned tax dollars go to someone that will use it to buy drugs ? Maybe if more of it was done we would not have to foot the millions of dollars to retry all the people that Judge Baumgadner mess up.
Let a welfare person use that money to buy drugs then go out driving and kill someone or peddle those drugs to a family member of one of those 2 on the show and I bet they change their minds then, but its to late then
#2 Thanks for the feedback,
Thanks for the feedback, Doug. Here's what I think is really CRAZY: Tennessee investing in a program to drug test welfare recipients that could end up costing MORE money than it saves and implementing that program with NO evidence that this is a problem in Tennessee. Now that's a waste of taxpayer dollars. Then there's the pesky little matter about it being unconstitutional...
If you get outraged by the fact that someone is using your hard earned tax dollars to buy drugs, then why limit drug testing to only the poor? You'd have to include all people that receive subsidies or other monies from the government--businesses and farmers, Congressmen and judges, the list could go on.
Here's some facts: http://ideas.time.com/2011/08/29/drug-testing-the-poor-bad-policy-even-w...
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