Drug Testing for Welfare

The topic of drug testing for welfare recipients has been a hot topic for some time now and until recently some of the preliminary information is very interesting and surprising.  Personally I think that it is unconstitutional to tell someone what they can and cannot put in their bodies as the government issued cheese could probably kill someone faster than marijuana but that is something altogether different.  These politicians in Florida came up with a plan to save taxpayers dollars on what they perceived to be the drain on their money, welfare recipients.  In my talks with conservative people, they generally think and argue that poor people are poor because they want to be and that they are on welfare to be lazy, collect a check and live off of the government and I agree that there is a lot of people who do just that, as a handout is a big discouragement to get up and search for work and get to work but, some people need it and try their best to do the best with what they have and that little bit of money is a major difference in their lives.  Not all welfare recipients are Ol' Dirty Bastard from the Wu-Tang Clan.  Most of the conservatives making these arguments are usually people that are pretty well off as I have yet to met a conservative that was born poor and not white.  Under these programs in the state of Florida, the average household lives off of $240 a month.  I know people who spend more than that on a pair of shoes!  Florida government saw these roughly 100,000 people who receive some sort of cash benefit as the whole drain on their economy and thought that they use that money just to do drugs and be lazy.  They came up with the genius and unconstitutional thinking of drug testing them in order for them to receive their benefits.  To their great embarrassment the first round of testing has demonstrated that people on welfare use drugs less than the rest of the population most likely because THEY CANNOT AFFORD THEM and maybe because they knew they had a test and were able to sneak by it, either way another class warfare major screw up by over privileged people who would have no clue how to survive in some of these poverty situations that they held create and deprive with their judgements and hypocrisy.  As it turns out, 2% failed the tests and because of such a low number, this program has already cost the state 2.7 million in one quarter when it was supposed to save them 9 million for the year, already increasing the debt.  The national average according to 2010 stats is that 8.9% of Americans use some type of illegal drug which is again much higher than the welfare recipients of Florida.  Way to go to their genius politicians, need I say conservative, for their class warfare to take the state further into debt.  I think tables should be turned now and congress, senators, governors, mayors and anyone who had anything to do with implementing this program should be drug tested and lose their jobs if they fail the test and I would be willing to bet that most of them would test positive because they have to be completely in an altered state to continue with a war on drugs instead of turn it to a war on poverty.  There wouldn't be a war on drugs if you could take poverty away, but why would they do that when they make money off of them.  That's a reality TV show I would watch, politicians living in neighborhoods in some of the finest cities in American like NOLA, Memphis, Detroit, Atlanta, Kansas City, Cleveland, and Baltimore and watch them get dropped off with nothing and try to survive--the real survivor.  Until you have never seen it or experienced it or known somebody that lived it, don't judge it and try to change something that you yourself do not understand.  Stop trying to hurt the poor and help them and while your at it help the declining middle class as well.  Try being human.  Here is a link to an informative article drug testing welfare