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common practice in most employment sectors at this time, welfare recipients should be subject to random drug testing, positive test results should begin a disciplinary cycle that leads to eventual termination of benefits. Why should welfare recipients be treated any differently than the rest of the working world? If they need to be reahabilitated, guess what? Staff public substance abuse centers with welfare recipients! Yes, you will still need trained professionals but welfare staff could work as office administrators, group facilitators and general workers. If rehabilitation fails after a set time period, remove them from the welfare rolls! Staying clean to receive their check should be a good motivational tool.

Requiring value added activity of welfare recipients will make our country run more efficiently.

I can understand why a person may be down on their luck and out of work and need to rely on a government program to get by until they find better opportunities, but I see no reason why working America should carry the burden of a career welfare population. Those who are on the program for good reason would have no issue with working for their pay, while those who are manipulating and taking advantage of the system would harbor resentment or simply exit the system. Either way, America wins!

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