FINALLY! Michigan requires community service for welfare recipients

[Sam1]

and drug tests

 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/09/18/community-service-for-welfare/2834157/

[bersaguy]

Gosh there is something else I was not aware of. I didn't know Tennessee started requiring drug tests to get welfare and food stamps???????? Has anyone heard anything about it or has it not kicked in yet???? I have been wishing they would have began that years ago before these scumbags broke TennCare because about 50% or more would get booted off the Freebee train....jmho

Edited September 20, 2013 by bersaguy

[LI0NSFAN]

I know with unemployment I could not refuse a drug test if a potential employer required it. If I did it was considered passing on a job, which you are not allowed to do. I asked the lady at the unemployment office what would happen if I passed on a job, she said I would lose ALL my benefits. I was hired by my first interview so passing on a job offer was never an issue. I only got one week of benefits but it did help a lot.

[Mike.357]

Has that passed constitutional muster?   I am not so sure it will.   Surely it will be challenged.

[Hiker]

Good stuff.

[RichardR]

I've got mixed feelings about this.

On one hand I believe that requiring a citizen to preform labor/tasks for "the state" or watch their children starve seems almost like state sanctioned slavery, especially if it was the policies of "the state" that was purposely designed to crash the private sector of the economy forcing tens of millions out of work to begin with.

On the other hand we've a real problem with welfare-leaches, who do nothing but take & breed more takers, generations of takers who contribute nothing to society except criminal statistics & votes for the democrat party.

As far as drug testing, again mixed feelings, on one hand if they have money for drugs they have money for food, on the other hand I believe that the government has absolutely no authority at all to regulate what a citizen voluntarily chooses to put into their own bodies.

The slippery-slope that started with a prohibition on alcohol has now grown beyond intoxicants to include soda sizes, sodium, trans-fats, portion sizes, etc.

I'd actually prefer it if "the state" stopped interfering in the economy, then there would be no need for public assistance for able bodied citizens, as well as what a citizen chooses to eat, drink, smoke, snort, shoot, etc, it's really none of their business if someone chooses to be a fatty, a cancer-risk, or an addict, the whole prohibition/war on drugs thing has damaged our Constitutional freedoms & liberties more than anything else.

Just my .02

[DaveTN]

Since it only requires testing of job applicants when the potential employer requires it I would guess it will stand.

I liked the proposed amendment that legislators and government workers are required to drug test; but of course that didn’t pass.

[frankmako]

nothing is free.  someone has to pay for it.  if you get free money from the government you should do something to get it, not set on your butt taking drug, drinking, and having babies.