Drug Testing For Those on Welfare
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May 12th, 2010Someone from Las Vegas, NV signed.
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May 12th, 2010Someone from Eagle Mountain, UT writes:
We need to get a handle on this. There are FAR too many people abusing the system. It has got to stop. There are too many illegals, drug dealers and just plain lazy people getting benefits, whent they clearly should not be!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 12th, 2010Someone from Roanoke, VA writes:
I agree with all the others comments. I also know people that recieve these benefits and choose not to go out and look for a job but sit on their butts and let us hard working people pay for there food, rent, electric, water, and drug habits. One mother I know recieves $600 in foodstamps a month for her and 2 kids and 1 kid that does not live with her. Her kids living with her are 14 and 16 so it's not like she needs to be home with them which she isn't anyways she stays at her boyfriends all the time sitting around doing drugs. Most of these people on welfare are eating better, driving better cars, wearing better clothes, getting their hair and nails done while I go from pay check to pay check trying to make it. They need to be drug tested. There should also had a cap on the length of time that they recieve benefits. Also they should have to submit a list of jobs they have applied for each week like they do for unemployment.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 12th, 2010Someone from Central Falls, RI signed.
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May 12th, 2010Someone from Colorado Springs, CO writes:
It's only fair if our tax dollars are going toward assisting those who really need financial assistance they submit to a drug screen. Everyone else is subject to the same when applying for a job, it's no different.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 12th, 2010Someone from Amelia, OH signed.
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May 12th, 2010Someone from Westland, MI writes:
Something has to be done. I know there are people out there who really need this but there a millions out there who abuse the welfare system...hair styled..nails done cell phones, & God forbid where did they get the money for that?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 12th, 2010Someone from Madison, IL signed.
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May 12th, 2010Someone from Lake Charles, LA writes:
Everyone should be held accountable for their actions. Especially those recieving beneifits from the goverment which is paid for by the hard work of people everywhere! Drug test to get a job - then drug test to get on welfare and random drug test throughout to keep recieving assistance. Fail once - suspension for a year. Fail twice - Banned for life. No more free rides.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 12th, 2010Someone from Madison, IL signed.
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May 12th, 2010Someone from Virginia Beach, VA writes:
It just makes sense! Those of us with jobs are obligated to be drug free. Paying taxes for unemployed to eat, live and breed for free while abusing drugs and taking no personal responsibility for the own lives is wrong. I don't have any problem with helping people financially. I think we must do it. I give a tremendous amount of money to charity. I find charities that help people make good choices. Nobody is a victim, everybody has choices to improve their lives. Hold people responsible.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 12th, 2010Someone from Royse City, TX signed.
May 12th, 2010Someone from Hesperia, CA writes:
If we made drug testing mandatory for anyone requesting any governmet assistance, then we may actually cut back on our budget! Please listen to what the people have to say!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 12th, 2010Someone from Houghton, NY signed.
May 12th, 2010Someone from Christiansburg, VA writes:
I think that alcohol testing and routine visits from social services to determine the welfare of the children to be included!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 12th, 2010Someone from Hertford, NC signed.
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May 12th, 2010Someone from Manor, TX writes:
I had a drug test when I went to work. Why shouldn't people get drug tests for any kind of government money? I have nothing to hide.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 12th, 2010Someone from South Bend, IN signed.
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May 12th, 2010Someone from Dayton, OH writes:
I fully support giving food stamps to those who use the food stamps for food but I am opposed to taking my tax dollars to support drug dealers/users and greedy people who use the system to acquire more. The welfare system has become a system of greed in which many recipients are receiving welfare so THE WORKING CLASS THAT PAYS TAXES, ends up paying their living expenses which enables them have money left over to purchase non-essential/luxury items. Many of these welfare recipients live much better than the WORKING CLASS that supports them. I am a working professional who chose to buy a home to rehab in one of the most crime ridden neighborhoods in Dayton, Ohio. I chose this because I believe the only way neighborhoods improve is for community involvment, not turn the other way. It has not been an easy task to live here. The houses are abandoned, prostitutes, drug dealers, gang members walk by my house on the hour but I won't give up. Here are a few things I witness to those using the welfare system. I have neighbors that receive government assistance, they refuse to work because they would rather consume alcohol and drugs daily. They or their live in boyfriends/girlfriends exchange their food stamps for cash so they can buy drugs, alcohol and cigarettes. They do not buy food, rather they sell the food stamps, their children remain hungry and often we, the neighbors, are giving food to their children. Perhaps the most irritating is my witness to the abuse and greed of the system. I watch people who work jobs in which they are paid under the table. One bragged how she received $1,000.00 CASH weekly for taking care of an elderly couple. Then there are the ones that have the father of their children living with them. They have income from the fathers who work construction jobs but they do not report that income. The income is enough to pay living expenses such as rent, FOOD, utilities, etc. The problem is that if they pay for food, they do not have money left over to buy non-essential items such as alcohol, cigarettes, Cable TV, internet, barbaque grills, NEW electronic items such as TV's/computers/stereos and expensive wheel covers for the new cars, etc. Also, explain to me how they can BUY a new pit bull puppy for a few hundred dollars, pay vet bills and buy pet food but they do not have money to buy their own food? I DO NOT HAVE CABLE TV like these welfare recipients who pay over $100.00 a month for cable TV because I have to buy food with my money. I DO NOT have a new TV or stereo system like my neighbors on welfare because I have to buy food and pay my utilities with what I earn. I DO NOT have a new washing machine like the welfare recipients that I support in my neighborhood because I do not have xtra money after paying my bills. They have the luxury of doing laundry in their homes, I have to go to a laundry mat. The welfare recipients should be required to live like I do, the person who pays for their bills. Come to my neigREPORT COMMENTS
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