Posted on Oct 26, 2017
Should welfare recipients have work requirements and be drug tested?
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I'm ineligible for welfare or public assistance. However, it angers me that as a taxpayer, I'm essentially paying the recipients of welfare or public assistance to be lazy. Most states don't have a work requirement in order to receive welfare which I think is wrong. How is it fair that I don't qualify for assistance and I work for my money, but a lot of welfare/public assistance recipients don't work and get assistance anyway. Also, why shouldn't recipients of welfare/public assistance be drug tested? It's not racist to check and see if someone is on drugs when they are using the assistance of welfare. Again, I don't qualify for welfare or public assistance, but I work hard and most jobs out there require a drug test before you're hired and some require drug tests while you work in certain positions. Why do people that work for their money have to be drug tested, but the people who don't work for the help they're receiving don't?
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It's a question the asking of which is absurd in and of itself. It should be mandated nationwide immediately, as in yesterday.
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Yes and yes. I think it's stupid on the left's part not to jump on board with this - then again it goes against their narrative. I think if you take money from the state or federal programs, you have to work for it and it's only temporary. I also think that if you have taken money that once you find a job, a very small percentage (1-3%) should go back into the very system that helped you out. Everyone falls on hard times but I think we as a society need to start repaying the system that's helped you in the past.
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I think if the government or any employee has to (yes - has to - by law) drug test for any positions then those that receive any government funding should be drug tested also.
LIKEWISE (And I think drug-testing should happen) BUT,
If they are not drug-tested then no one should be drug-tested.
LIKEWISE (And I think drug-testing should happen) BUT,
If they are not drug-tested then no one should be drug-tested.
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Almost all stats with the exception of Mississippi and Missouri who are very liberal and allow 24 months require immediate or within a month for a work requirement. This can include job training, education, active job search and of course an actual job. This is for non-disabled individuals. As far as drug testing, they will all most likely pass. Most of them will be seeing a doctor for some kind of pain control or anxiety and will have a running prescription for their drug of choice. I'm not saying that people should not be allowed to milk the system and honestly most people dont. The life they live is horrible and most struggle just for something most of us take for granted. It is really not worth the cost to go after everyone when a the numbers are not as high as you would actually think. There is a legitimate need for welfare, there are people that are not capable of caring for themselves and we should help.
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I understand there is a legitimate need and that there are some people that actually do use it for the right reasons and stuff, but again my argument is if they don’t have to work full time, Why shouldn’t they be drug tested I have to be drug tested just to work and I don’t even qualify for welfare because apparently I make too much and I really don’t even make that much money.
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SGT Anna Kleinschmidt
Because they will pop but have a script to cover it. Most have been sent to pain control docs or they have found pill mills that provide them. They will most likely take more than what they have been prescribed but all that the test shows is the class of drug that they have taken. So even if they are abusing them they are going to pass with flying colors and there is not a way around it as long as they have a legit Rx. It would just be a larger drain and waste of our tax dollars to test for those reasons, it has been tried by a few states in the past and they went not able to justify the cost due to lack of finding people who were using illegally.
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