Quote Originally Posted by BanginJimmy View Post
Its not about monitoring what your average person puts in their body at all. Since you have proven you are not capable of supporting yourself and require actual tax payers to do it for you, it is in the interest of the govt and the tax payers that you keep yourself in a hire-able condition. You volunteer to give up that little bit of privacy in order to get your handouts. No one is forcing you to do anything. This is just like requiring a drivers license an car insurance to drive on public roads.
As I said before, the goal is a respectable one (make people hireable) but I don't think that all other goals are subordinate to that one. Not to mention I don't think having drug testing will provide any significant increase in making people hireable anyways. To me, welfare is primarily about helping out someone who is struggling, not the government bribing them to do what we want.