Welfare Arguments

Argumentative Paper
When people think of welfare many people think about it differently. For most people they think its money that helps those people who are struggling to get by and need help. In today’s society there are more people who use their welfare money to buy drugs instead of diapers and food for their children. When considering effective ways to cut the governments spending, each state should start requiring mandatory drug testing among all of the welfare recipients. Cutting welfare benefits to known drug abusers will allow the benefits to go to the people truly in need of help, lower the drug use in the poverty stricken communities that rely on welfare assistance and cut a chunk out of the governments out of control spending.
These numbers may seem low. To the people who are truly struggling to make ends meet this percentage is a large amount of people who could be getting the government assistance versus those who are abusing it by doing illegal drugs. Those people who are in need of assistance don’t think that when they go to apply they will be denied due to not enough funds. It’s unfair of those people that really need the help cannot get it due to many people abusing the government assistance
The saying you don’t know someone until you have walked in their shoes. (Lawrence E. Rafferty) Many people who do support the issues have never been at the poverty level and don’t know what it’s like to struggle to put food on their families table.
Government assistance is good for those people who don’t abuse it and are willing to follow the rules no matter how silly or degrading they may seem. Random drug testing is not meant to hurt people or make them feel degraded it’s only to eliminate those who abuse the assistance and help others who really need the help. Many people support random drug testing and believe there is nothing wrong with the government wanting to do