8 States Consider Drug Testing For Welfare Recipients
Posted on March 27, 2009
Don’t these states know they are messing with one of the Democrat’s major voting blocks?
Want government assistance? Just say no to drugs.
Lawmakers in at least eight states want recipients of food stamps, unemployment benefits or welfare to submit to random drug testing.
The effort comes as more Americans turn to these safety nets to ride out the recession. Poverty and civil liberties advocates fear the strategy could backfire, discouraging some people from seeking financial aid and making already desperate situations worse.
Or, those people could stop doing drugs. Simple solution. Cue the ACLU in 3…2…1….
“Nobody’s being forced into these assistance programs,” said Craig Blair, a Republican in the West Virginia Legislature who has created a Web site — notwithmytaxdollars.com — that bears a bobble-headed likeness of himself advocating this position. “If so many jobs require random drug tests these days, why not these benefits?”
Looks like Kansas, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Florida, Minnesota, Missouri and Hawaii. A similar measure in Tennessee failed. Maybe someone should require that companies getting bailout money have their head folks tested, too.
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We don’t drug test the current occupant of the WH, we don’t drug test his OPTUS, but we can drug test welfare recipients.
I live in Minnesota and I’m on assistance (disabled, on Social Security Disability) and I’ll line up to take a drug test.
So they test positive. Now what?
Make them go to work?
I am sure the percentage of welfare recipients testing positive for illegal drugs would be astonishingly high.
To answer Larry above, retest any positives right away, if the positive is confirmed, cancel their benefits, and evict them from public housing if they are living there.
They could reapply for benefits, starting from scratch, after 6 months.
If they have kids, CPS becomes involved.
NO ONE who is accepting assistance should be spending what little money they have on illegal substances.
About time.
are yall kidding never take anything from the government . dont use a hand out be true to our american heritage of self reliance and hard work that has made us the world power .
If they come up positive they will probably have to go to rehab. I do not know if any state will have the political will to cut them off welfare entirely. We will see.
i think this is a great idea, this may stop all the drug and alcohol problems in the country.
FINALLY!!! My hard earned tax dollars go to “help” these folks, and I am subject to random testing, they should be as well..who, among them, can afford it anyway.