AdamT
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It depends. What incentive do they have now to get clean? Whose to say people who are collecting a welfare check every week aren't panhandling or engaged in prostitution. There is no perfect solution. Your "turn a blind eye and feel good about yourself for giving them a few bucks" solution is problematic.
Based on the results in Florida, this seems to be another non-problem that Republicans are fixating on to curry favor with their base. Why make everyone who applies for assistance pay for this humiliating test when it appears that it's less of a problem among this population than it is in the population as a whole?
It seems to me that the real problem here is with those who have the biased perception that people who are going through tough times and need some assistance must be drug-addled parasites.
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