city star , where missouri this past year was the most recent state to install drug testing for welfare recipients and where neighboring kansas is scheduled to be next. the program s price in missouri described as, quote, astronomical by one state s legislature, quote, a horrible waste of state resources. costs in missouri include $170,000 just for staffing administrative hearings for the people who are getting denied benefits. in kansas, they ve already earmarked nearly $1 million to pay for this policy, including $600,000 for upgrading computers to get ready for the testing program. really? you think you re going to save money with that much money invested? on new year s eve, a federal appeals court in florida ruled again on the policy that started this new trend in the red states. remember, the florida policy was originally stopped by the courts just a few months after it was implemented in 2011. but on new year s eve, on tuesday night, the appeals court affirmed that ruling and shu
else made you do this. that s the circumstance that alex rodriguez now finds himself in. i do believe that he loves the game, and i do believe that now he s finding out that you never know how good you have it until you don t have it anymore. and now he s going through that because he hasn t been able to play because of the surgeries and because he s gaining in age. and he wanted the best for himself in this game. he wanted this record. he wanted to be a great player. and he was for a number of years. but it comes out now that he s been cheating. he s admitted he cheated in 2001, 2 and 3 back before there was a testing program in place. and now they have all of this evidence and, plus, he was involved with dr. galea, a man who has been banned from having anything to do with people in sports up in canada. and he s had an association with him. all of that will come out now. so alex rodriguez is in a very, very difficult spot. i don t really see how he crawls out of it. bill: he has unt
doesn t leave test positive. to really crack down on this, do you have to have somebody who comes forward? i mean, is testing enough? or do you have to have someone on the inside who comes forward? the reason baseball is where it s at right now, the union finally and the players, i applaud them they re coming forward, and saying enough now. as long as the union doesn t get in the way of the testing, the testing program will work. and the game will be clean. will it ever be clean, no. because there s always the next guy, the next chemist finding things out. but if the two work together, the program, what they have now should work a lot, lot better now. just because what the union is not fighting as much. there s some areas on testing they have to fight. but something blatant like this, 12 guys didn t fight it? what about the nfl, i did pieces for 60 minutes a while
is testing enough or do you have to have somebody on the inside who comes forward? well, baseball s doing a good the reason baseball is where its at right now is the union finally and the players, which i applaud them, that they re coming forward saying, enough, now. and as long as the union doesn t get in the way of the testing, the testing program will work. and the game will be clean. will it ever be clean? no. because there s always the next guy, the next chemist finding things out. there s always going to be, but if the two work together. i mean ashes program, what they have now, should work a lot, a lot better now, just because what the union s not fighting as much. listen, there s some errors on testing and they did not fight. but blatant like this, 12 guys, didn t even fight it. what about others? the national football league? are they i did pieces for 60 minutes on players using and it didn t seem like they were proactive in testing? no. and i ve met some nfl play
is testing enough or do you have to have somebody on the inside who comes forward? well, baseball s doing a good the reason baseball is where its at right now is the union finally and the players, which i applaud them, that they re coming forward saying, enough, now. and as long as the union doesn t get in the way of the testing, the testing program will work. and the game will be clean. will it ever be clean? no. because there s always the next guy, the next chemist finding things out. there s always going to be, but if the two work together. i mean the program they have should work a lot, lot better now because the union is not fighting as much. listen, there s some errors on testing and they did not fight. but blatant like this, 12 guys, didn t even fight it. what about others? the national football league? are they i did pieces for 60 minutes on players using and it didn t seem like they were proactive in testing? no. and i ve met some nfl play talked to players. their