Drug testing for those on Welfare? Your thoughts?

[SciFiBoy]

SamuelRSmith said:

Kasz216 said:

SciFiBoy said:
isnt a better solution to just legalise drugs?

You'd think.

If people are being random tested for drugs you'd think they should be random tested for booze and other such things as well.

Or maybe even just go to peoples houses if you want to go that far.

I mean drugs waste money, but so many people waste welfare assistance on stuff like flatscreens too.

 

One of the things in life that winds me up is people who misspend their benefits. The Gov't should pass regulation on what benefits are spent on, and they would be able to that easily if they basically gave pepole on welfare a special card that recorded all purchases and worked out ratios of essential to non-essential goods.

Benefits are there to keep people living a healthy, good standard of living whilst also supporting the community, not to be wasted on unnecessarily large screens that hardly fit in the room in the first place.

so the government should tell people how they can and cant spend there money, and police it, how is that a good idea?