Originally Posted by SykkBoy2

There would definitely be more money spent on the drug tests than would save in denying someone for drugs in their system.

As was stated before, we need to get these people actual help and the money spent on drug testing could be better spent on education and rehabilitation programs for these people AND their children.

Welfare should be handled differently than unemployment because with the latter, those people have actually paid into the system.

Not all unemployed people are deadbeats either. Take Nevada for example...we have one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation right now...a lot of these people have worked their asses off for years, lost their jobs and there are no new ones for them. So, say Danny the Poker Dealer gets laid off and collects his due unemployment...should he have to sell off everything else he owns just so he can appease someone who feels he's leeching their money? What if his kids already had an Xbox...does he now have to sell this item? Should he be forced to add this type of humiliation to that which already exists from being unemployed in the first place? Does he now need to be forced to live in total poverty just so he can get some assistance?

I love hearing stories about "women in Lexus or BMWs driving down to pick up their welfare checks". While this might happen or have happened, it is always always the exception, never ever the rule. As someone who's spent time helping out in shelters and assisting the poor and elderly, I can tell you first hand, this is often a bullshit story that a friend of a friend told someone's friend. yeah, I know, crazy me, actually being down in the trenches and assisting the less fortunate. Actually working/volunteering amongst these people and getting the real stories. I'm not saying abuse of the system doesn't exist, it certainly does...but should those who truly need it be punished because of the very few who do abuse it?

As for gas station chicken being bought with foodstamps...who cares where they buy their food? It is still food. It's still going to feed themselves and their families...