{"id":534,"date":"2010-08-20T06:48:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T12:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.muckleroy.com\/?p=534"},"modified":"2010-08-20T06:48:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T12:48:27","slug":"if-i-need-to-take-a-drug-test-to-get-a-job-then-you-need-a-drug-test-to-get-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muckleroy.com\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"If I need to take a drug test to get a job, then you need a drug test to get welfare!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“If I need to take a drug test to get a job, then you need a drug test to get welfare!”<\/em><\/p>\n

A little while back, perhaps a year or longer, there was a discussion about requiring people on welfare to take drug tests.\u00a0 On the face of it this sounds like better than a good idea, it sounds like a GREAT idea.<\/p>\n

The discussion has reemerged recently due to a “fan” site on Facebook actually called “If I need to take a drug test to get a job, then you need a drug test to get welfare!”\u00a0 I thought it might be worth revisiting a point or two I made in the last “original” discussion.<\/p>\n

Now there is no way as a tax payer I want to fund someone drug, drinking, or any criminal lifestyle.\u00a0 So requiring drug tests for welfare seems like a great idea.\u00a0 Then I thought about it.\u00a0 What would the person do that had a drug habit and didn’t work, obviously because they couldn’t or didn’t want to?\u00a0 Simple they would just stop taking drugs, get up, get out, and go get that job at McDonalds and start paying their share of taxes, buying stuff and stimulating the economy!\u00a0 NOT!<\/p>\n

If that was going to happen they would have already done it.\u00a0 I don’t think anyone really wants to be hooked on drugs, unless they just don’t want to live, or just don’t care.\u00a0 So that last part is the critical bit.\u00a0 Don’t want to live, or just don’t care.\u00a0 So if the government won’t give you money get it from somewhere else.\u00a0 Steal it.\u00a0 You can take it directly from people, or break into their house, their car, etc…\u00a0 Now you are still paying a tax but instead of going through the system, you are paying it directly to the criminal.<\/p>\n

Well they may, and do get caught!\u00a0 Ok that sucks because the drugs aren’t as easy to get in prison, but hey free room, meals, and an exercise gym!\u00a0 It’s really simple people.\u00a0 What would you do if you were hungry.\u00a0 You couldn’t get a job, you had no money.\u00a0 Your only option was to steal and eat.\u00a0 Eventually you’d steal and fill your belly.\u00a0 This is what drug addicts on welfare will do.<\/p>\n

You want to get people off of drugs?\u00a0 Fix it so the drugs can’t get across our borders!\u00a0 How?\u00a0 Put the military on the borders, seal it!<\/p>\n

Pretty soon drugs will get so expensive no matter how much they steal they won’t be able to afford it.\u00a0 Many people will start making the drugs inside our borders, and they will be found and put in jail.\u00a0 It’s a multi-year plan but at least it would get better.\u00a0 Crime would go down, more people working, more tax revenue and less people on drugs.<\/p>\n


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