Why Do Ppl Assume Those Who Need Welfare Help Are on Drugs?
Question by BRUCE: Why do ppl assume those who need Welfare help are on Drugs?
Under a new Florida law, people applying for welfare have to take a drug test at their own expense. If they pass, they are eligible for benefits and the state reimburses them for the test. If they fail, they are denied welfare for a year, until they take another test.
Several studies, including a 1996 report from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, have found that there is no significant difference in the rate of illegal-drug use by welfare applicants and other people. Another study found that 70% of illegal-drug users between the age of 18 and 49 are employed full time.
A Florida television station, WFTV, reported that of the first 40 applicants tested, only two came up positive, and one of those was appealing. The state stands to save less than $ 240 a month if it denies benefits to the two applicants, but it had to pay $ 1,140 to the applicants who tested negative.
But why do they assume those who need welfare are on drugs???
Should we also test those who need Federal Disaster Aid for Drug testing too since they our using “Your” money too?
How about drug testing for state job-training programs, unemployment benefits, Businessmen who get state contracts, farmers who receive crop subsidies and retired state workers who receive pensions as well????
And it doesn’t even SAVE money….
http://news.yahoo.com/why-drug-testing-poor-could-unconstitutional-081205581.html
No one is Answering all of my questions
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Answer by Lawgirl
Because they’re retarded. They have been brainwashed to think welfare is evil.
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