What are your feelings on drug testing people on Welfare or any other government assistance?
I think that this would free up alot of money.
What are your feelings on drug testing people on Welfare or any other government assistance?
I think that this would free up alot of money.
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Yeah right, like the officers and directors of all of those huge corporations would ever allow the politicians to force them to submit to this.
This could see the end of our near fascist system. As the corporate barons forfeit their bailouts and tax incentives due to their drug taking the public would no longer have to fund their loses. I think skimmer is on to something here. I think no bid contracts are part of the welfare system too right? ByeBye to those too. I like it.
I would like to see an actual percentage of the national budget that goes into welfare. I remember hearing something like 6%, but it depends on what you consider welfare. Food stamps? SSI Checks? Medicare? Medicade? Different sources will group this all differently, many will distort the numbers, lie or just make something up and I'm not about to dig down to the bottom of it. The point is, though there is certainly money being spent here that is wasted due to fraud, there really isn't a goldmine to be found. What it comes down to is, it is much more palatable than cutting education or defence.
don't forget the end of war!
"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."
-War hero Smedley Butler, four-star general and two-time winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor
Maybe it's just the fact that I work and have to take drug tests to pay for people not to have to work and not have to take drug tests.
maybe it's just the fact that you take home a scrap of the wealth you create while millionaires and billionaires get paid by the government to do OxyContin, cocaine, and scotch all day long.
Might as well drug test everyone who applies for a student loan, a mortgage, drivers license(since arguably you are using government services when you drive on roads), everyone who uses public parks for any reason, etc. etc. etc....but all you will find is a LOT of people smoke weed. Everything else is out of your system in 2-4 days.
I thought that's what taxes are for.
I support your radical leftist campaign to begin to strip the capitalists of their stranglehold on our society.
I think drug testing is a racket. Independent companies charge so much money for that shit.
actually, it's piss, I believe
no.
why dont you therefore make it illegal to get welfare if youve ever committed any crime? how does this help society in any way?
I do like this idea.
My urine just got a lot more valuable.
Well, Jaym, it works like this. Now that they are criminals and can not get jobs or welfare, they will simply need to get better at crime. After all we are America, our criminals should be the best to compete with criminals from all over the world.
Our criminals are by far the weakest of criminals. We don't even have an army of AK-47-toting child soldiers in private crime, not to mention state-sponsored. We're blowing it.
Can we all go be pirates now?
America.....
Land of the PEE
No. I think that only people who work to make money to give to other people (who god love em', just don't want to work) should be tested.
I think they will end up testing everyone at the DMV.
CEO's don't want to work; they just want to bang on the (lives of whom their company has destroyed through illicit and immoral business practices) all day.
i used to be for this until i worked for the government and help assist low-income head start mothers with employment support through a community services block grant... and so... my experienced opinion is that drug tests for these individuals would be costly and pointless. we have enough trouble giving money away to people who are more than eligible because they never submit the necessary paperwork. im going to go ahead and assume anyone doing drugs for the most part is going to also fall into that category of lack of follow-through.. so yeah. did that even make sense? i dont know. it did to me.
plus........... drugs should be mostly legal. yay drugs.
But if someone has a low paying job and spends all there money on drugs they can't afford food, dude. Just imagine not being able to get your kombucha after nearly overdosing the night before. jeeeeeze laweeeeeze.
its funny... we went over this in government class and my teacher informed me that there is a group who supports this idea. he then went on to explain that that group is called the Ku Klux Klan. he wasnt joing, the KKK supports this.... needless to say, i felt kinda like an asshole after i said this was a good idea...
The KKK also supports clean freeways. Don't you feel like an asshole after you picked up litter that one time?
Anyway, this thread is about the leftist crusade to end corporate welfare, not harassing women on WIC.
In my town disability is the big fraud. I'm sure there are people who use it, and need it, but mostly the people on it are fine and pounding beers all day on the porch.
In a way we have to support these fuck-ups because if we don't they will have much more incentive to break into our cars and houses and really ruin our lives.
I would love to see a sting operation of some kind on the "physically disabled". If they fail than keep giving them the money in exchange for community service. Even if they pass many could be put to work doing things which didn't impact their disability.
Work for your welfare!
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