"Are there no work houses? Are there no prisons?"

The Palmetto Scoop is rolling up its sleeves and doing its part for the stimulus- of logical fallacies! Two whoppers in just one blog post today:

Scoop Doggy leads off with what seems to be his all-time favorite, post hoc, ergo propter hoc:

A week ago I called on South Carolina legislators to consider doing something a number of other states are doing, cracking down on drug abuse by welfare recipients.

And I’m glad to learn that someone was listening, err… umm, reading.

State Rep. Rex Rice (R-Pickens) introduced a bill Tuesday requiring random drug tests for those receiving public assistance and removing a two-time offender from the state’s assistance roles.

Then he offers up a relativist fallacy from the man he claims- without any sourcing- to have influenced:

“This legislation protects our tax dollars from fueling drug addictions,” Rice said in a statement Wednesday. “This legislation, like my proviso to mandate immigration verification, ensures our tax dollars do not aid or abet illegal behavior...

“We face tough times: 11 percent unemployment, a faltering economy, and a skyrocketing national debt,” said Rice. “We must do everything we can to protect hard earned tax dollars from being wasted on those who break the law."

The poor, you see, are often illegal immigrants, and when they aren't they are still the poor and we need to tighten up on their demands upon the monies of the non-poor, who, of course never use drugs.

Not that Rice has any proof that poor people are unusually predictable drug fiends and general layabouts.

He doesn't have to.

Just ask Daniel J. Cassidy over at Savonarola.