Drug Testing Welfare Recipients Is A Bad Idea
I remember when a facebook friend of mine had a status that said: Drug testing for welfare recipient, GENIUS! I looked at that post and thought: He never needed food stamps ever did he? He grew up in a middle class suburb at a time when the middle class was roaring like a freight train all over this country. He is a white gay man who doesn’t know the realities of those on food stamps. Most people who support this may come from a few vantage points: Food stamp recipients are lazy (I qualified for them while I wasn’t working but collecting unemployment and looking for work) that food stamp recipients are all drug users (states that have implemented that policy doesn’t bear out that view) and that somehow if you are on assistance you must be using drugs. Simply put, this is a conservative view that a man who lobbied for marriage equality parroted this on his page. I don’t see how someone getting 1K/yearly through foodstamps can crash the economy but Wal Mart and GE getting millions of ...