Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients Is Stupid

Mandatory drug testing is genius!

Why take our tax dollars and give it to people on welfare so they can spend it on drugs? If this idea is so stupid, please explain to me why you feel that tax paying Americans should pay for drugs for other people? We are not talking about prescription drugs here either, we are talking about marijuana, cocaine, etc...

Also, if the welfare recipients are on drugs, then how do they expect to get a job and get off of welfare?

drugs are paid for by the free medical offered with the hole plan.

Right now drugs prescription drugs are the #1 drug abused on the street. people treated for overdosing are doing it with prescription drugs. Paid for by the goverment free medicle. plus the hospital care for when they overdose and to rule out sucide they are sent to a psychatric hospital to be watched for a period of time. My brother quit his job tolive on welfare. lives in welfare apartment buys food with the foodstamps and has a friendly personal doctor who continues to provide a note saying he medically cant work and write him scripts for narcotic drugs. plus protect him from child support laws so he is high every day abandon his children and refuses to work 5 out of six doctors suspected he was displaying behavior of a drug addict and wanted him to see a shrink but welfare doesnt care that he lied his doctor knows there is nothing wrong with him but the goverment is using my tax money to help kill my drug addict brother and also support him and protect him from supporting his daughters. He stopped seeing them permanently now that he can get high daily.

Where is the equality?

Welfare money that goes to the recipients is in some sense an income correct? They use that money to continue on with their life.

Now on the other side of things, people get jobs for what reason?...To get the income they need and desire to live their lives the way they want. In most jobs today, employers drug test their employees to make sure they are clean and able to make the right decisions while working. And if they test positive, well the employers can say goodbye to their jobs and then their goes their income.

So why shouldn't welfare recipients, regardless of their situation, have to go through the same thing. They are receiving money for not even having a job and working for the money that they get.

And if you have an addiction, and you keep getting tested positive, then common sense in most enviorments would say "hey i can spend this money on drugs because i need it to eat", or say "hey i need to save this so i can feed my kids and pay the bill."

So where is the equality?

IIl tell you the damn point...

Before I was hired for my current job I was required to undergo a drug test. I had no problem with this. When I looked at my first check on the other hand I found out that I was paying over $250 every two weeks to FICA. Now how much of that do you think got circulated back through the welfare system and into the hands of drug abusers? I can't even imagine. If people had to take a drug test before receiving a financial assistance check they would do one of a few things. Stay clean and get their check, keep smoking crack and not get their check, or find the financial means to support themselves and not have the taxpayers do it for them. So Bonnie I'm not sure if you just weren't thinking when you wrote this or what, but perhaps logic should be entered into your vocabulary. Because this is the point. I'M SICK AND TIRED OF PAYING FOR BUMS DRUG HABITS!

No Big Deal

As long as there are people like me, willing to take drug tests to work in an already dangerous industry and give up half of OUR hard-earned income to feed these people's drug habits.. Everyone should turn out just fine, right?

WELFARE IS KILLING MY BROTHER I cant stop them

WELFARE IS KILLING MY BROTHER AND FORCING ME TO PAY FOR IT.

My brother has a crappy work history had it been checked they would have found that if he wasnt fired he was willingly quitting. He smoked dope and hated paying child support. He was Healthy the day he told his boss to Eff off to get fired and he was healthy when he went down to welfare and told them that he was out of work for more then 12 months and he qualified oh yeah and that he was homeless to collect cash. I turned him in for his lies but there are no penalties they simply dont give it to you until you can prove that its true. The medical card upgraded his pot smoking habit that he only did when he could afford to smoke it to narcotic perscription drugs which his doctor continues to perscribe even though I informed his doctor that he was steeling other peoples drugs with out care an he had a problem. I called welfare WHO PAYS FOR HIS DRUGS AND WHEN HE OVERDOSES AND PROTECTS HIM FROM PAYING CHILD SUPPORT. the first five doctors sent him to a shrink because he was trying to get them to operate and give him more narcotics. Welfare wont look at what Rochester Mayo Clinics results were he just needs a note even if he writes one for imself because they dont check to see in they are being conned and as long as he has a note that states he cant work he gets welfare. Now that he can abuse drugs every day and party. He has completly removed himself from his daughters and they are devistated.

Very weak argument against a great proposal.

Bonnie,

Have you ever lived in an area with drug users? (Note, I am referring to hardcore drugs.. I don't consider Marijuana to be any harder a drug than having a couple beers. Actually, it's probably less harmful than that, but I digress...) When I moved to the Chicago area to take a job out of college, I lived in a pretty rough neighborhood for a while just outside of Englewood. I had multiple neighbors who were were on every kind of financial assistance they could find: The "Link" card (food stamps in debit card form), welfare, scamming church assistance programs claiming they had a baby at home to feed... it was disgusting. Then they would turn around and try to "sell" the Link Card money to people for cash so that they could buy heroin. They even came by and asked if we would panhandle with them!

While this is definitely not the way of all welfare recipients, it is a way of life for some. I fully support assistance programs for those who need it; I am not some heartless conservative trying to cut back on it entirely. However, if there is a way to put an end to some of these users wasting money from the system, I'm all for it. It doesn't feel good to live in the highest-taxed city in America and watch your tax dollars disappear one by one into the ever-collapsing veins of a shitty neighbor(s).

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My view

I am a single mother and I live in low income housing and receive food stamps and a medical card. I have a 3 year old daughter and I am a college student with a job. I look outside my apartment windows everyday and see myself surrounded by people who are spending your tax dollars to buy food, clothes, and other stuff for themselves and their children.. you know what else they are doing? buying drugs. Should the money you work for really go to supporting someones drug addiction? I can count at least 9 of the people in my apartment complex alone that are buying and selling drugs. They should not be allowed to have assistance. If they can afford drugs they can afford food and clothing for their families.

Drug testing for welfare

Bonnie, your argument is week. You mention that if someone fails a test to throw them in jail but that really isn't the argument. The idea would be to deny benefits. Your other point is that an addict needs to hit bottom before they can better. If we give money to addicts we are not allowing them to hit bottom. You may think that collecting welfare is hitting bottom but there are many addicts out there that would disagree with you.

I'm 100% Fr it

Test them My tax dollars better not be going to someones high. I know a lot of people on warfare who do drugs, test them and if the have drugs in there system take away there money I could careless if they have kids and if they have kids take the kids away to.