Recipients of Welfare Should Be Drug Tested

Drug Test All Welfare Recipients A Woman working at a convenience store in the US had a man walk in with an EBT card (Food Stamp Credit Card or something similar) and he wanted to buy cigarettes. The woman refused and the man left. The next day the man came in again with a member of his family and raised a commotion about it. The owner came in, sold the man cigarettes and fired the woman. Some people might say that it is unconstitutional to demand a mandatory drug test in order to receive welfare, and it will deny them their human rights. Receiving welfare is a privilege not a right. Recipients should be drug tested in order to collect welfare. Welfare is a very valuable system that was created to help people become independent. Someone that was recently laid off, struggling single mothers, or the less fortunate college student, are prime examples of people we should be helping. Not people that are sitting at home smoking marijuana while using their flat screen TV’s. The majority of people that receive welfare are too comfortable not working and don’t plan on getting off welfare. The government needs to create a way to track exactly where all money is being spent. Managing welfare money would be a difficult task, but there are ways to track spending. The welfare system is too careless with money being given away and should be closely monitored. Our hard working tax money should not be wasted on drugs. Drug testing people is a great way to fix our welfare system. People who receive welfare should get drug tested just like most taxpayers have to. Some people for instance, nurses, have to be drug tested in order to keep their job. The same should apply to all people that wish to receive a helping hand. There shouldn’t be a controversy between drug testing people if the drugs are illegal to do. The reason why we would have to think about drug testing people is because there is a problem with the system. This would be a way of really fixing people instead of