Is it time to drug test welfare recipients?

Also cut junk food and soda from food stamps.

TANF (Welfare) is $110/month [1]

Drug tests are $42/person not counting administration fees [2]

At most, 10% of people fail them. It usually closer to 2 or 3% [3]

A little quick arithmetic shows that you need to spend $420 to deny one person $110. That's a net loss of $310. It would be cheaper to add 35% more people to welfare than it would to drug test and deny those who fail.

Already doing it in Florida. So far only 2% of welfare recipients tested positive for drugs, and the rest are considering suing the Governor Rick Scott (R) for nepotism; His company is the only one that offers the drug testing in the State.

Sure as long as corporate welfare recipients are first in line and not just the CEO but every top level executive then that would be fair and balanced.

I cannot always pay my bills and buy groceries yet I have to let drug addicted welfare moms and their dealer boyfriends tell me how to spend my tax dollars. I worked in the welfare system for years and saw this firsthand. People have no idea just how bad this problem is!

Now what was your question?

It's Harsh to say, but yes, we should.

Why should you and I pay for people's irresponsible, personal choices.

If a person Pays RENT, Food, Insurance and Transportation costs FIRST, and runs short of cash to meet those NEEDS, I'm ALL for assisting them Financial/Socially.

BUT...

When someone takes their paycheck and spends $100/month on Cigs, and $100/month on booze, or $1,000's on tatoos, or Flat Screens or Eating Out....BEFORE they pay their Rent, Insurance and Food, then the SCREAM that they are Starving, why is this being allowed?

Yes, you can tell someone how to spend money IF you are the one GIVING them the MONEY.

If their Choice is to buy Wants before Needs, then they should have to LIVE or Die with the Consequences of those Decisions.

That is our ENTIRE Problem in America. A lack of Personal Responsibility and Lack of Discipline.

If we put money toward a quality education system and have a society that cares for one another, then this question shouldn't ever arise.

We have to ask questions like this because of right wing thinking of separateness and callousness.

How cruel, republicans create the conditions that cause welfare and now they want to drug test them.

It's like this, either bring our jobs back from overseas or pay us not to starve to death. In the long run it would be cheaper to make everything here in America by Americans. Our economy would be much better off from the new found confidence in our markets and our tax coffers would fill from all the employment.

Lets start With Congress First.... Their Welfare Checks are a lot higher that the Poor's checks...

† FNS †

what a great idea that would cost 3 times as much and yeild nothing. You must be a con