////Clarify, josepp. Are you saying that if your employer did not require drug testing, you would be actively opposed to drug testing as a condition of receiving welfare benefits?////

Drug testing is bullshit. But if one group of people can legally be subject to it nonvoluntarily, then everybody should be legally subject to it nonvoluntarily. Once you rationalize it as ok for people in my case, you're allowing everybody else to rationalize it any way they want to make it apply to anybody they want. Which is precisely what is now happening and it's too late to complain now.

And don't anybody dare pull this "helpless poor" bullshit on me. I've known several people over the years on welfare and not one of them couldn't have gone out and worked but simply didn't want to. And this idea that they'll go out and commit crime if denied benefits, remember, the benefits are temporary anyway--they run out eventually.