Welfare Drug Testing
Why there should not be drug testing for welfare
Should drug tests be required of welfare recipients? No, I don't think so. Welfare recipients are typically extremely poor and are uneducated. Another aspect of welfare recipients is that they are mentally ill. It would seem too ignoble to find ways to deny recipients access to welfare.
Welfare recipients are usually on welfare because they lack an education and training to earn a better living. Their education only allows them basic opportunities for earning a paycheck, if they even have an education that high. Because of this, they probably aren't thoroughly educated about illegal drugs. Illegal drugs are a complex issue. It is often simplified to people to just don't use them. But that's too much of a simplification for many people. For instance, why is alcohol and tobacco products legal but marijuana and heroin aren't even though all four are technically drugs? This leads some people that the legalization of drugs are rather arbitrary and most drugs aren't as dangerous as the government makes it seem. These poor try drugs and get addicted because they just aren't educated enough on the consequences of their actions.
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Who exactly is on welfare? Who is collecting and using food stamps these days? The majority of people are lower middle class, working poor to poor caucasion families. Those who can no longer afford to put gas in thier cars and food on the table. Should they be drug tested? Should parents in states with a working wage of 9.00 an hour and a state minimum wage of 5.15 an hour which neither supports a family, pays for the gas required to get to a job, or feed a family, be drug tested, or should the policy makers who do not live under these same standards be drug tested and better yet, forced to live on the wages that they set and believe to be fair and reasonable for working class
Should drug tests be required of welfare recipients? No, I don't think so. Welfare recipients are typically extremely poor and are uneducated. Another aspect of welfare recipients is that they are mentally ill. It would seem too ignoble to find ways to deny recipients access to welfare.
Welfare recipients are usually on welfare because they lack an education and training to earn a better living. Their education only allows them basic opportunities for earning a paycheck, if they even have an education that high. Because of this, they probably aren't thoroughly educated about illegal drugs. Illegal drugs are a complex issue. It is often simplified to people to just don't use them. But that's too much of a simplification for many people. For instance, why is alcohol and tobacco products legal but marijuana and heroin aren't even though all four are technically drugs? This leads some people that the legalization of drugs are rather arbitrary and most drugs aren't as dangerous as the government makes it seem. These poor try drugs and get addicted because they just aren't educated enough on the consequences of their actions.
Another reason why welfare recipients …show more content…
Who exactly is on welfare? Who is collecting and using food stamps these days? The majority of people are lower middle class, working poor to poor caucasion families. Those who can no longer afford to put gas in thier cars and food on the table. Should they be drug tested? Should parents in states with a working wage of 9.00 an hour and a state minimum wage of 5.15 an hour which neither supports a family, pays for the gas required to get to a job, or feed a family, be drug tested, or should the policy makers who do not live under these same standards be drug tested and better yet, forced to live on the wages that they set and believe to be fair and reasonable for working class