Drug testing welfare recipients

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I'm all for drug testing anyone who gets a Federal benefit. Let's do it for people on Medicare and anyone who declares home mortgage interest on their taxes.

Interesting. So public safety officer's widows who get the federal benefits from their deaths should be drug tested? What about children of military who receive federal benefits for education? Drug test?

Blanket statements!

PP here. Exactly, that was my point. Thanks for adding to it. Why is that people on welfare should be drug tested and not everyone else who gets a nice Federal benefit?

[Anonymous]

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But alcohol and caffeine are legal drugs thus we can't really include them in to the mix. I know companies that make employees sign no smoking pledges and fire them if they get caught smoking. Also once welfare becomes generational it seems to lose its humiliation as that is what you are born in to and all you know. How do you break the cycle? As a resident of Capitol Hill it's sad to watch the kids in PG near the Harris Teeter, it is more than likely they too will be welfare recipients and addicted to drugs etc.

My point is doesn't carry over to those who are generally disabled or have some sort of malady that prevents them from working, but when I drive by there and see dozens of able bodied men just hanging out, and yet the people who caught my lawn are undocumented residents who came here in the back of a truck to work their ass off, I realize there is a glitch in the system.

I live in Capitol Hill, too, right by Potomac Gardens. Yes, I worry about those kids, too. Why not get involved in something positive and help a kid in the neighborhood? Jan's Tutoring House (formerly Friends of Tyler Students) has a track record of sending kids to college. I know a whole family of kids who were diverted from the streets through their long-term involvement with tutors. The Tutoring House is right on Pennsylvania Ave SE near the McDonald's at Barney Circle. Why not help out? It's something concrete we can all do that can help keep kids off the streets. And it helped me learn a lot more about my neighborhood. I've found it very rewarding.

http://www.friendsoftylerschool.org/JTH/home.html

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I want some potato chips. I hate that DH left this old chip bag laying here and now I have a craving.

[Anonymous]

We should drug test lawyers, hill staffers, and all political types. If u make your living from the law, u got to follow the law.

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My grandmother, who's in state-sponsored nursing care, would fail a drug test. Guess it's time to cut the old lady off.

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Why not drug test drivers? driving while high is a risk to public safety. Make everyone piss in a cup if they are pulled over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One simple reason - it would be a total waste of resources. Can you imagine the fleet of people that it would take to conduct random drug tests not to mention the additional cost of monitoring the test takers themselves to make sure that they do take bribes or just not do their job in the first place. BTW, don't even suggest planned testing bc you and I both know that these do not work.

Here's another simple fact: being on welfare, unemployment, WIC, or disability doesn't = drug user. Once again, the Republican party at it's best - Governor Rick Scott. Whoever believes this crap HAS to be on drugs or is plain stupid. I can't believe anyone would actually agree with this nonsense.

[Anonymous]

You can appeal to people's desire to be better by trying to make a government that does good things for people, or you can do it by telling them they are better than those in need and should not let themselves be taken advantage of. The GOP seems to have institutionalized the latter.

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I guess their logic is that unemployment is a moral defect. Good luck with that in the general election.

[Anonymous]

OP, I think they should be tested, but subjected to treatment if they fail the test, they should also receive fewer bennies since they seem to have money to buy drugs.

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I want proof that children are drug free if they get claimed as dependents for taxes. Why should someone's druggie son be a tax break?

[Anonymous]

OP, some good food for thought here (key word being 'some'). Great idea in theory, a nightmare to actually put into practice.

[Anonymous]

first of all, I don't think this has anything to do with unemployment benefits. unemployment is a benefit you earn because you paid your unemployment taxes while you were employed.

second of all, I don't see a problem with this. welfare is supposed to be a temporary situation where the govt helps you to get back on your feet. It should be combined with job training and counseling - and should have both a carrot and a stick approach. So why not have an incentive to get people off drugs?

[Anonymous]

We should test people who claim mortgage interest deductions and anyone who takes a government student loans. These are all welfare. I remember a bunch of hard right conservative arguing about how we must crack down on all these druggies as they got drunk and smoked pot! LOL
I know lets test for alcohol and tobacco before any medicare or ss checks go out. Big brother is watching you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:first of all, I don't think this has anything to do with unemployment benefits. unemployment is a benefit you earn because you paid your unemployment taxes while you were employed.

second of all, I don't see a problem with this. welfare is supposed to be a temporary situation where the govt helps you to get back on your feet. It should be combined with job training and counseling - and should have both a carrot and a stick approach. So why not have an incentive to get people off drugs?

Because you should not have to give up your rights as an American just because you fall on hard times, that's why.