[TheRealVille]

I disagree.

Allow me to ask first:
1. What do we mean when we say welfare? Are we referring to any and all government programs that provide assistance to needy people? Does this argument include permanent disability SSI? As in people that are born blind, people born with no legs, (I mean this seriously, not as a joke) the truly mentally retarded/deficient people? If that is the case, I do not feel that those people should have to be drug tested. They keep paper-work on things like that, so the government would know.

I completely agree with testing ANYONE with a history, no matter the disability. You use, you lose. Like, the above poster said in the quote, I too, know people that have gotten on gov't programs that I cannot understand why? Sometimes, with people I know well, I ask them what makes them disabled. One lady explained to me it was her diabetes that got out of control.

I know this woman, she cheated her diet-rules (diabetics have to lower sugar intake, etc....) My dad and father-in-law have diabetes and serious gout, why shouldn't they get disability? Is it fair that they take care of themselves to not get worse, but go on to work anyway? If they started stuffing with ice cream and quit taking their shots, they could get these things.

You can't drug test for that, the people pay into that when they worked.