06-23-2011, 04:19 PM
We will never "make anyone have to work". It just won't happen.
Like I said, I'm on the fence. I don't want my tax dollars going to a crack head. But I also don't want a crack heads child being starved because she's a crack head and couldn't pass a drug test to get food stamps.
There is more involved in "reform" than just drug testing everyone, then denying benefits if failed. Do we then just turn them away and say, "Sorry, you're a crack head, good luck with life"? Do we "reform" them, put them into treatment, job programs, etc? Who's paying for that? What if they have children? Do we turn a blind eye to the fact that they're being raised in that environment, likely to grow up with the same fate? I understand the "shoot them all" mentality.....but, first, who's the judge and executioner?
Like I said, I'm on the fence. I don't want my tax dollars going to a crack head. But I also don't want a crack heads child being starved because she's a crack head and couldn't pass a drug test to get food stamps.
There is more involved in "reform" than just drug testing everyone, then denying benefits if failed. Do we then just turn them away and say, "Sorry, you're a crack head, good luck with life"? Do we "reform" them, put them into treatment, job programs, etc? Who's paying for that? What if they have children? Do we turn a blind eye to the fact that they're being raised in that environment, likely to grow up with the same fate? I understand the "shoot them all" mentality.....but, first, who's the judge and executioner?