(June 15, 2011 at 3:52 am)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote:(June 13, 2011 at 6:37 pm)The_Flying_Skeptic Wrote: I'm against druggies getting Welfare. If they can buy alcohol, marijuana, or even ciggerettes, they should not be on Welfare.
So you'd deprive them of their only coping mechanism for being near the bottom of the chain? The bottom being those who cannot even have these?
They all sound pretty poor to me.
There's a difference between having a drink, and drinking it like water. Same with ciggarettes and marijuana.
Whats the solution? 80% of it goes to expenses, some sort of voucher/direct payment on bills scheme and 20% of it in cash for whatever they want?
Treat welfare like a job? You have to have the drug testing and what have you in addition to the job searching/skills training?
I'm not against them having that stuff, I am against them spending 70% of the taxpayer money they receive on it (the same goes for gambling), but a solution is beyond me.
