Our New Anahuac

A question was posed as to whether welfare recipients should have to get drug tested since many government employees must get tested. Here is my response. In my opinion, the discussion turned into people complaining about how welfare recipients scam the system and drive around in better cars and buy better food than non-welfare recipients:

Yes, corporate welfare recipients should have to take drug tests as well. The way they were running the banks, there is no other way to tell what they were smoking. All of those CEOs should be marched down to the clinic and have to give a “sample.” Food welfare is a human right and many innocent children benefit. We should not punish children over their parents’ choice to use drugs.

I guess the discussion turned more into one about welfare rather than drug testing for welfare:

I have been to the welfare office lately, for the person who asked. I acutally office literally across the street. I do not envy our people who have to go there. I have interviewed many of them and spent time with them. The vast majority need the assistance. I work hard myself, and it is irksome to see people abuse the system for their own materialism. When that money could go back to the people.

I have had close people mention how some welfare and medicaid recipients drive better cars than do I. I think that if you take the time to find out the truth only a minority of people abuse the system for material gain.

I won’t believe otherwise until some of the people making these generalizations spend the same time that I have with welfare recipients. In fact, I invite you to come with me and find all of these supposed ballers with all these gold chains and rims at the welfare office, because you won’t find them.

When we go together and find them, then I’ll listen to you. Otherwise, you are simply having an emotional reaction to something that you saw one time in a store, but back to the original question:

No, we shouldn’t keep it simple and test all welfare recipients. If the perpetrators of the Nazi Holocaust were fed while they were imprisoned, why should some children go without food over their parents’ choice to use drugs. Underfed children create underdevelped adults and underdeveloped communities. Food is a human right.

Remember, welfare is one of the last ways that the rich keep the poor from revolting. Do you really want to take it away?