Drug Testing Welfare Recipients

On many social networking sites you have the option to click on and support or like topics such as "Drug Testing Welfare Recipients". Out of curiosity I wanted to see how many of my friends support this and guess what? Many of my friends support this and guess what else? All are Conservatives. I must say I really wasn't surprised, these people are on the bandwagon to run all the illegal immigrants out of our country, believe there is no separation of church and state, against gun control, and believe women should not have a say in their reproductive system if it involves abortion.

Right now I don't personally know anyone who is on "welfare" but I know a lot of people who use drugs of some type, many should feel lucky their jobs aren't doing random drug testing. Where does this mindset come from where these Conservative people associate drug use with "welfare"? They automatically assume most on "welfare" are black, poor, and crack addicts. I guess it hasn't crossed their feeble minds, but say, Plano, Texas is seeing more and more white people who had blue collar jobs visiting soup kitchens because they have lost their JOBS. In some places the recipient lines stretch around the block.

These same people calling for or supporting "Drug Testing Welfare Recipients" also tout how the government has gotten too big, so don't they realize how instituting this would create another government bureaucracy? Or how else could something of this magnitude be done?

I believe there are issues with "welfare" where there has been generational ingraining of people in this system and it is a flaw in our society where we have not invested in these communities. We would rather invest in prisons than putting dollars into the educational systems where these people come from as children. So I would say our "Prison System" is another form of "Welfare" because housing, food, medical care, etc, is being continued at tax payer expense, yet people don't seem to have an issue with this.

Today we live in a time with a volatile job market which could impact each and every one of us. Be careful because Ivory Towers are fragile and could come crumbling down and you could find yourself, hungry, homeless, jobless and would welcome that "welfare" check!