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Deal OKs bill requiring drug testing for welfare recipients

Most people who are truly disabled and cannot perform any sort of useful work aren't on welfare anyhow, they're on SSI. Just saying.
 
But nobody is arguing that drug testing, in and of itself, will solve all the problems. It is a part of a multi-pronged approach to comprehensive welfare reform. It includes going after fraud. It includes requiring welfare recipients to receive an education and job-training. It includes stopping welfare recipients from breaking the law. It forces these people off their fat asses and into the work force, not because they want to, but because they absolutely have no choice in the matter.
Bill H.R. 1135 does not call for drug testing. It only mentions drug or alcohol treatment. Drug testing requirements are not a part of the Congressional reform act of 2011, it has only been introduced on the state level. So no it is not part of the package.
 
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