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Are you in favor of mandatory drug testing for welfare recipients?
There is a law that republicans are trying to pass in KY to make passing a drug test mandatory to recieve welfare benefits.
I'm a liberal democrat and I support this. To my mind, applying for any type of financial assistance from the state is asking for a handout because you are unable to support your needs with income from work or other sources. I understand that not everyone is able to find employment and earn an income that provides for their needs, but a positive test for illegal drugs can be used by an employer to prevent you from being hired, so why shouldn't the source of income you seek in place of or to supplement earnings be allowed to make the same call?
I've posted a link to an article that includes some Democrat's opposing opinion. The only valid point that I will concede to in his argument is that legislators and government employees should also be held to the same standard as the employees of private industry. Fail a drug test and lose your job. As far as how to pay for the testing, the savings generated by not providing benefits to those not trying their hardest to support themselves will pay for that with money left over.
Thinking- how is it different from having to pass a drug test for employment?
Love, Illegal narcotics. Prohibition has been repealed for a long time now. As far as legislators and government employees not being allowed to be drunk while on the clock, the problem with that is? You can't be a greeter at Walmart and clock in while you're wasted, why should you be able to deliver mail or vote on legislation while you're under the influence?
@ How do you like me now_ Just like with employment screenings there should be an appeals process, and if that were the case a random retest should come back clean. Also, studies have shown that the amount of secondhand smoke you would need to inhale to test the same as a user would require sitting in a small room with a cloud so thick that you'd need goggles on to open your eyes. http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/medical/c...
4.10 Passive inhalation
Annette, I do think that applicants who fail tests should be offered rehab treatment under the same health care plan that government employees get. Take the rehab option, get clean, get the benefits if you still need them. Choose not to and too bad.
22 Answers
- CameronLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
Absolutely! Every single executive in working in any corporation, business, or farm in this country that receives any kind of subsidy, contract, or tax break should have to pass a thorough drug test before they get a penny of taxpayer money.
Corporate welfare would end in five minutes!
- 1 decade ago
Yes, i would support that, only if they would offer support on quitting drugs and not cut off the drug users of aid. Ultimately people on aid need HELP, for a variety of reasons. They may be disabled or have some form of dyslexia, or be using drugs or abusing alcohol or what have you. The poor need help to overcome their barriers not to be cut off.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Absolutely
- Advice SonshiLv 61 decade ago
If you don't do drug you have nothing to worry about
and you can always prove you are taking a prescription order by your doctor for any drugs that may be found to prove you not illegally taking them.
only those who do drugs or never been drug testes would have a problem with it.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
I'm a democrat and I support this. It's just you have to worry about more government spending.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I'm an unaffiliated conservative and I think it would be an infringement of civil liberties. Additionally, I do not use drugs and I do not support legalizing them.
I don't support drug-screening at work, either.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Yes. In fact, more states should try and pass something like that.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Absolutely, yes.
- BobbiLv 71 decade ago
Heck yah. Do you realize the only government-owned business you can smoke in, is the housing projects? and in many of these homes, pot smoke and meth rule.
