Why I don't believe in Drug Tests for Food Stamps

 I absolutely, 100% understand the sentiment behind the argument, if you have to take a drug test to get a job why shouldn’t you have to take a drug test for ‘FREE money’! I do, but...

1.       1.    A job is contract between you and your employer…a promise or expectation of certain types of behavior.  

2.     2.     There is no contract between food stamp recipients and government programs.  Government does not control people’s morals. If it did, it should also be able to withhold food stamps for illicit sex. Perhaps, porn. Oh, it was only R-rated, then it’s okay.  Wait you spent $5.00 on a movie ticket. Wasteful. A life outside of pain, suffering and looking for a job…we’re cutting you off.

3.      3.    When do we start testing for alcohol, cigarettes, chocolate?

Now, these are Government controlled Drug Tests, right? What could possible go wrong there?

1.     1.      Let’s say Mom does drugs. Bad mom, shame on you. No food for you, or son, or daughter, or little baby.

2.       2.    And what happens if there is a false positive? Couldn’t happen? When is the last time you took cold medicine? Meth-head!

3.      3.     Please, please, please tell me you are for smaller Government. Then, tell me you want another Government Agency to keep food out of the mouths of babies.

4.       That is okay, though, because they already want you to vote to keep people form have the right to VOTE in AMERICA! Photo ID! Trust me, if it kept the GOP voters from voting, it would NOT be under consideration.  It is to keep Students, Poor and the elderly away from the polls. Typical Democratic voters. 

   

      Voter Fraud is the FRAUD. Doesn’t exist. But, let’s make people (yes, people, not scum and villainy) take the little spare money they have and spend it on IDs and NOT food.

What happened to compassion? This is America.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she

With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

Have we come so far from our humble beginnings, that now, the poor can lie starving in the streets while we watch 350 channels on our flat screen TVs untouched.  $97 a month is the cost for food stamps…how much is your cable bill? What is the value of one child’s life?

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One last ‘random’ fact. As I read people complain about the $100 a month insurance program, it strikes me how selfish and judgmental people are.  Do you know how much uninsured people are expected to pay a month without insurance? $1500. A MONTH. I can’t afford that, can you?


$100 is affordable for most families, yet I keep reading Christian posts (Yes, it always seems to be the MOST Christian among us) stating how the Poor shouldn't have to pay. Judge people for NOT being self sufficient, then keep self sufficiency out of their reach. So why don't YOU well to do people pay the $1500 to support the insurance companies and let the rest of us get affordable insurance. Sound fair to you?

They worry for the poor , but won't give a hand up.

I love when people request help with something and get the response, “I’ll pray for you.”

That is just great. The person in trouble is still stuck on the side of the road and so called ‘praying person’ is warm and snug in his/her home.

Imagine if God had PRAYED for mankind instead of sending his SON down to Save us. Or if JESUS had only prayed for the Sick, the Poor and Outcasts, instead of helping them.  

I honestly don’t need to spend hours reading the bible trying to interpret what God wants from ME. I simplify. 

 I AM WHO I AM.  Exodus 3:14

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it:

 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' Matthew 22:37-39

Enough said.