Paycheck Random Urine Tests
Paycheck Random Urine Tests…
Why Not Welfare Checks?
Here’s an email from John in St. Louis who wrote….Like a lot of folks in this state, I have a job. I work my 40 hours each week and I get my paycheck. My company takes my taxes out of that check and I make my contribution to supporting my State and Federal Government.
Now, for me to receive my paycheck, I have to pass a random urine test with which I have no problem. I mean I agreed to it when I started working for my employer. Actually, I should say that I had no choice if I wanted the job.
What I do have a problem with is sharing my taxes and the fruits of my labor to people who don’t have to pass a urine test.
Why don’t the people have to pass a urine test before they get their welfare check? I mean that seems fair because I have to pass one to earn it for them, right?
Please understand, I have no problem with helping people who need a helping hand.
I do, on the other hand, have a problem with helping someone sitting on their couch doing drugs, while I work every day to help support their bad habit. There’s something very wrong with a system that supports that situation, don’t you think?
John, thanks for the email! I agree with you. Some folks need a helping hand sometimes to get back on their feet and I think that public assistance is a useful tool for that purpose.
However, when we start helping people with handouts to folks who have no intention whatsoever of using it to get through a temporary situation while they find a job or maybe go to school to learn a trade, then it becomes fraudulent and insults the American Taxpayers whose labors provided the assistance.
And, of course, John, you also pose a very interesting question, and one I’m sure thousands of working Americans who are subjected to the same random test as a condition of their employment are also asking.
Can you imagine how much money our States would save if everyone had to pass a urine test to get a welfare check?
Maybe we could call that program, “Urine or You’re Out!”
No, seriously, that would be a great name as it would describe the process and the potential consequences for defrauding the system.
I’ll tell you what, folks, something has to change in this country and I think if should be sooner rather than later!
Of course, if passing urine tests was required for welfare checks, the ACLU would be suing everyone on behalf of the poor, unfortunate folks who could not pass the test and would be unfairly discriminated by the state etc.
Unfortunately, we do not have a level playing field in this country for workers and those living off the state who are being allowed to indulge their addictions while taking welfare in the process of indulging their addiction.
Requiring working people to take random urine tests as a condition of their employment but not require drug tests to receive entitlements like welfare is definitely discriminatory against the American worker who supports those who receive the “helping hand” checks while still taking drugs.
I guess the obvious question becomes what percentage of those receiving any kind of free aid from our government would “fail” a drug test?
This whole thing about people abusing our Welfare System by continuing to take it when they are drug addicts who can’t get a job or some people who simply don’t want to work as long as they can have the state continue to support them.
As a matter of fact, this kind of reminds me of a story about a young boy who enters a barber shop and the barber whispers to his customer,
“This is the dumbest kid in the world. Watch while I prove it to you.” The barber puts a dollar bill in one hand and two quarters in the other, then calls the boy over and asks, “Which do you want, son?”
The boy takes the quarters and leaves the dollar. “What did I tell you? “ said the barber. “That kid never learns!”
Later, when the customer leaves, he sees the same young boy coming out of the ice cream store and says, “Hey, son! May I ask you a question? Why did you take the quarters instead of the dollar bill?”
The boy licked his cone and replied, “Because the day I take the dollar, the game’s over!”
What do you think, folks, does that young boy’s story maybe apply to folks who continue to cheat the welfare system who are very capable of getting a job? I mean, if they get a job, the game is over, right?
So, what do you folks think about requiring people who take government aid to pass a urine test?
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