Drug testing welfare recipients: Discuss

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It doesn't make sense to say other people survive under the same condition, so there must be something inherently wrong with how people on welfare live, that's why they need welfare. When discussing policies we're talking about the big picture here, government has to be responsible for the entire society, not just the portion that does well (especially when they do well because another portion is exploited). When large amounts of people fail, it's no longer individual failures, it's systemic failure. There's also the issue of rights that Missluckie brought up, the right to means that allows one to achieve a certain standard of living is a right that should not be taken away even if you're a criminal. This is a civilization, people, we don't starve our prisoners and we most certainly have a responsibility to ensure that everyone in the society has a way to achieve a certain standard of living (food, home, etc.). Unless someone can convince me that all those people can get food and housing whenever they want, they just prefer not to, we have failed.