Ravi
Diamond Member
I can think of a couple of reasons:
1) the program is likely to cost more than it saves in welfare payments.
2) nobody has specified how to safeguard people against false positives.
What evidence do you have that the program would cost more than it saves? And even if it does, if it teaches people to responsible so they are more likely to get off welfare or public assistance, why would that be a bad thing?
Why should government beneficiaries of the public dole be at any more risk than I would be when I submit to a random drug test at work?
The part in bold: I believe that was the finding made by the Court based on the evidence presented. I know the drive to punish anyone who isn't doing well financially is strong on the right, but really... do you ever stop wanting to humiliate people who go through bad times? (that's a generic 'you', not a personal 'you').
karma's a boomerang.
It's all about punishing the children, imo. They are special before they are born but they are garbage afterwards and it is their fault they were born into poverty.