re LBWR - the beginning.
Posted by: Creede Bighorns
In reply to: Creede Bighorns who wrote msg# 46 Date:3/24/2006 2:53:01 AM
Post #of 5811
December 21, 1989
That's the day that Ronald Reagan enacted a mandate called the Federal Drug Test Standard. This new law meant that all employees that work in transportation, or that work in a field that could have an impact on the environment must be drug tested upon hire, and also through random selection. So now, the airlines, the truckers, the bus lines, the train lines, the nuclear reactors, the oil companies, and many others suddenly had the responsibility to see to it that these tests were done...no way around it. But how did it come to be?
Well, what once was a manageable problem, alcohol in the workplace, was starting to become more of an epidemic, because new high powered narcotics were also coming into play. Many of our large corporations were in some ways "functional alcoholics", but trying to make the leap to "functional crackheads"....well, you see the problem. Alcohol and drugs in the workplace were beginning to cost American economy millions and billions of dollars annually. Nancy and Ron had just really begun the war on drugs, and they weren't doing too hot. The majority of the war was first fought at the supply line. They were attacking the drug dealers and drug lords on every level they could find....but not really making a dent in the problem. Then, they tried more of a balanced approach. Just like the Samuelson equation for our stocks, there are two components that can be attacked....the supply....and the demand. Ohhhhh, now Nancy's "Just Say No!" campaign makes more sense! They were trying to dry up the demand, and so, that's one of the big reasons Reagan fast tracked the law to the Supreme Court that allows for random drug testing....no law, and we have no Labwire...thank goodness for Ronald and Nancy.
To be continued...
GB-ND
creede
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