mandatory drug testing for welfare.

[Rebel]

Drug testing would be a good idea for people on welfare.
And it'd be best make it so they have to be retested every couple of months (too often isn't practical, too few makes it easy to slip through the cracks).

In Australia (at least where I lived) you had to be an active job searcher (2 jobs applied to a week) to be eligible. You also had to show proof of a low income fairly often for any other sort of financial help.

Another way to to it was to get people to 'Work for the Dole'. This is where jobs that are usually ignored or avoided (trash pickup, sand dune maintenance, etc) would be done by people who are 'unable' to find a permanent job. They would have to clock in a certain number of hours a week to be eligible for their welfare check.

Less chance both of these ways for people to stay on welfare, laze about, and spend their money on drugs and booze.

EDIT: The 2nd idea is for reasonably healthy people on welfare. It would obviously be different for people with permanent serious disabilities.

[Plaidman]

I'm for it, along with setting a maximum amount of time that one can be on welfare in their life. Say, five years.

Ehh... Well, lets do another example. Say you are horribly maimed. Lose arms, legs, eye sight.

If you go by your pattren, they're fucked after five years, because disability is welfare.

It would matter of what welfare is for. If its "i'm too lazy to look for a job" then yeah, five years is plenty of time.

[daleduke17]

I'm for it, along with setting a maximum amount of time that one can be on welfare in their life. Say, five years.

[jackfaire]

I like the idea, question is: what if the person has eaten something with poppy seeds? That's gonna set off the drug scanners.

Then I would have been pegged long ago. I have eaten a poppy seed muffin before a drug test and not even a blip. Honestly it seems like the kind of thing the same people on welfare use as an excuse.

"Oh I would have gotten that job but they didn't believe that the positive was cuz of this muffin I had yeah that's it. "

I have never heard of or heard an upstanding self reliant person claim they scored a positive due to eating poppy seeds only people that tend to try to avoid work.

[fireheart17]

I like the idea, question is: what if the person has eaten something with poppy seeds? That's gonna set off the drug scanners.

[Plaidman]

Some jobs require you to take drug testing. Hell, alot of times they may require it after even minor accidents. So if we have to take a piss to earn a paycheck by working, should welfare people do the same?

I'm for it. I may be bitter after seeing so much rampant welfare abuse, including people who get on it the EBT CASH (Used for diapers, rents, medicene, etc) To only use it at ATM to withdraw money to buy meth, beer, prostitutes, etc.

So hey, those who get on it should take it. After all, it is for people that need a boost and help with rent and food. It's a paycheck really. If they're abusing it by buying illegal drugs, then they use it. Welfare is to help people get back on their feet. Not a free pass for all the drugs and $200 bucks for junk food.