Re: Here you go...Lawmaker wants drug tests for welfare recipients Archived Message
Posted by dogwhisperer2003 on January 20, 2011, 11:38 am, in reply to "Here you go...Lawmaker wants drug tests for welfare recipients"
I am all for drug testing welfare recipients, but I would like to take this one step further. IMHO, we should drug test all politicians as well. We should also scrutinize the politicians' income, and spending habits, as much as welfare recipients. I love it when people complain about welfare recipients taking advantage of the system at what? Maybe $24,000 a year? Most of which actually does go to food, medical costs, and shelter. How about when politicians take advantage of our system at a cost of millions? How much money has it cost our state to prosecute George Ryan? Or Mr. Blagojevich? As for completely getting rid of welfare and relying on charity.....well, that doesn't really work when most of your community is too poor to be charitable, does it? This is why welfare was started. Plus, if you get rid of welfare, what happens to all of the caseworkers and secretaries at the welfare offices? Do you know how many people would suddenly find themselves unemployed? I love the idea of limiting the link card so that only certain types of food could be bought and that you must show an ID to use it. I think our welfare system could use some serious reform. But I do not think that our welfare system is why our sate and our country is so broke.
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