Democrat and Republican liberals alike often excoriate those who think that welfare programs should not be parceled out indiscriminately, but should require something from the recipients. Back when Bill Clinton was fighting impeachment, he actually signed on to a welfare for work program, and amazingly, the welfare roles shrank!
It turns out that if people can get stuff for free, without having to do anything for it, they will. That should not be a surprise. The other thing liberals will have us believe is that welfare recipients have no responsibility for their situation. While that is certainly true in some cases, there are many more that result from poor decisions and behavior.
Starting late last year, North Carolina began requiring drug testing of new applicants for a state welfare program. A number of politicians decried the requirement as unfair, saying that it was too costly, and that it was onerous to those who would be required to take the test. The test was not universal and applied only to one program, but the results were quite surprising.
See test results on page 2:
Finally something good is happening.
About time
they are all brown wtf
Haha. They are high!
NO SURPRISE THERE
Frank, you don’t live in NC. The amount of opiate, meth, and heroine use in NC is unreal. Low income families are plagued with this c**p. We are one of the poorer states and it blatantly shows in drug use. People think large cities have drug issues? It’s nothing like the poor small towns in NC. We have a significant problem here that you can blatantly see at work, in public, or wherever you go….
I’m curious to know if the original posters still wanted poor WORKING families to sweep the streets.
Good
“The percentage testing positive is quite high” IS AN OUTRIGHT LIE! The state started with a group of 7.600 welfare recipients, but screened out ONLY 91 of the group of 7.600 tested positive or didn’t show up. This means at most 1.2 percent of the group tested positive.
My sources from Carolina say there are many that fail, that is according to law enforvcement!!!!!