53% Support Automatic Drug Testing For Welfare Applicants

[RonPaulFanInGA]

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/pub...automatic_drug_testing_for_welfare_applicants

 

[AlexAmore]

I support it given that welfare exists at all. I say regular drug testing, regular inspections, heck just get a freaking parole officer on their ass. The whole 9 yards baby. Don't like it? Stop stealing from me, and you'll stop being treated like a criminal.

 

[muzzled dogg]

makes welfare programs much more palatable for the knuckleheads

 

[dannno]

I think the government should seize a bunch of drug shipments that the CIA is protecting and just give them out to people on welfare.

Or they just should legalize drugs. I'm pretty sure you could fund a pretty bad coke habit on $1 or $2 a day if it were legal.

The fastest and easiest way to get someone over their addition is to give them essentially unlimited access to it and eventually they will get bored and realize all the drugs in the world won't solve their problems and will likely reduce their intake or quit.

 

[speciallyblend]

if people want a free hand out. then they shouldn't be buying bags of marijuana or any drug. If they really want freedom stop sucking the state and federal titties!!

 

[Liberty_Mike]

if people want a free hand out. then they shouldn't be buying bags of marijuana or any drug. If they really want freedom stop sucking the state and federal titties!!

Well said. You can't beg for freedom if you are begging from others who are having their freedoms denied by being forced to subsidize you!

 

[dannno]

if people want a free hand out. then they shouldn't be buying bags of marijuana

But they should be able to grow it for free, or buy some shwagg for about the same price as tobacco.

 

[dannno]

Poor people and those on welfare are hurt by the Federal Reserve created inflation tax the most. I don't blame all poor people for their condition, I blame that on government.

These people should be able to buy these substances for almost nothing, but because of govt. the prices are jacked up. For many poor people, because government has screwed them over and made them dependent, the only joy in life they have is from doing drugs.. but government has screwed them over on both ends. I don't demonize them for that, I demonize the bankers who profit off of the drug war and the inflation tax.

 

[jm1776]

53% Support Automatic Drug Testing For Welfare Applicants

The other 47% were either on welfare or expected to be on welfare soon.

 

[dannno]

The other 47% were either on welfare or expected to be on welfare soon.

I would say the drug testing companies are really the only ones who are going to benefit from this.

Should people on welfare be prevented from going to Disneyland? Do you want to pay to have that enforced on top of paying for their welfare?

 

[Agorism]

Yawn

 

[Anti Federalist]

First it was drug testing to get certain safety related jobs.

Then it was drug testing for parolees and convicts.

Then it was drug testing for kids to play high school sports.

Then it was drug testing to hold a multitude of jobs, when it was not even required by law.

Now it's drug testing for state benefits.

And what will be next, eh?

Sorry, the excuse that "well, just don't take welfare benefits" is as lame an excuse for violating people's rights as saying "well, just don't fly" when talking of TSA abuse.

Sometimes you have very little choice in the matter.

 

[AlexAmore]

I would say the drug testing companies are really the only ones who are going to benefit from this.

Should people on welfare be prevented from going to Disneyland? Do you want to pay to have that enforced on top of paying for their welfare?

Whenever I'm really broke, that's when I start getting proactive and busting my balls to make money and work on my long term business plan. When I'm comfortably broke I just get passive and linger there and focus on bullshit stuff.

Growth stems from being uncomfortable. Let's not take the one thing that will truly help them away.

 

[jm1776]

I would say the drug testing companies are really the only ones who are going to benefit from this.

Should people on welfare be prevented from going to Disneyland? Do you want to pay to have that enforced on top of paying for their welfare?

I am philosophically opposed to both drug probation and tax funded welfare so the best I could do was make a joke about the number of people currently on welfare.

The drug testing companies and of course yet even more authoritarian control by the state.

Next will be testing for unhealthy foods, smoking, etc... Why should tax payers pay for bad health choices that will lead to more tax payer funded health care costs? It just never ends.

 

[aGameOfThrones]

Do nations who receive U.S welfare aid count?

 

[NewRightLibertarian]

The anti-freedom drug testing industry supports them too.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Do nations corporations who receive U.S welfare aid bailouts count?

Updated

 

[LibForestPaul]

I support it given that welfare exists at all. I say regular drug testing, regular inspections, heck just get a freaking parole officer on their ass. The whole 9 yards baby. Don't like it? Stop stealing from me, and you'll stop being treated like a criminal.

I second this. Include medicare/medicaid recipients as well.

 

[newbitech]

I agree, lets make sure they aren't doing anything illegal. Let's also go ahead and install alcohol switches in their car ignitions to make sure they don't drink and drive. While we are at it, may as well get their finger prints and DNA. Oh and let go ahead and collect all of their medical records, and do a complete private sector background screen as well.

 

[Anti Federalist]

I agree, lets make sure they aren't doing anything illegal. Let's also go ahead and install alcohol switches in their car ignitions to make sure they don't drink and drive. While we are at it, may as well get their finger prints and DNA. Oh and let go ahead and collect all of their medical records, and do a complete private sector background screen as well.

You forgot installing surveillance cameras in every room of their home, and implanting RFID tracking chips in them.

Threads like this always make me glum, it's sad to see how easily government initiated theft can cause even people here, who should damn well know better, to turn against their fellow man and not against the thieves who stole from them in the first place.