This, in my opinion, is utterly stupid.
Do you get drug tested every month? I don't. I might get drug tested if I cause an accident or am injured, but I don't have to take a drug test in order to receive my paycheck. So the first assumption made here – that people who work have to get drug tested to get paid – is a fallacy. And it goes downhill from there.
No one woke up and said "Hey, let me become an alcoholic today" or " Hey, I think I'll get addicted to this drug". And all the people who want to say "Well, they chose to use that drug" To you I say "Well you chose to eat yourself into poor health, or to smoke, or drink coffee or to use any of the hundreds of legal but addictive substances people consume daily." Maybe we should put every addictive substance on the list.
Further more, who are you (anyone,
everyone) who are YOU to judge whatever drove someone to use an
addictive substance? You don;t know anything about what that person
has been through or what demons they are attempting to silence. Are
we going to claim that the child forced into prostitution doesn't
deserve to eat just because s/he also happens to be addicted to crack
- which was probably the only way s/he could stay semi-sane in that
situation? Or tell the war vet who was searching for pain relief and
the silencing of nightmares that they can't have food or shelter
because they got addicted to some drug?
Florida, Kentucky, Missouri - these are
places to point at and ask WTF is wrong with you people? Who are you
to judge what others have suffered? Who are you to decide who can eat
today and who deserves to sleep out in the cold? You want to say "
well I went through X, Y, and Z and I'm not addict..." ? Maybe
you haven't come to your personal breaking point yet, but that
doesn't make you any better than the person who has broken and is
lost in misery. It just makes you luckier. And the fact that you
can't see that makes you meaner.
You don't pick and chose who deserves
to starve to death, and who deserves a sheltered night's sleep. And
if you think doing that makes sense, then you can't complain when the
"people" vote to make whether you or your mother or child
get to eat contingent upon whether they approve of your variety of
mistake.
And finally, what do you think a
starving person is going to do? If they can't buy food or shelter,
they'll steal to get the money. Same with drugs - so what if they
spend their assistance on drugs? Go ahead, deny them food stamps so
they can't trade them for drugs. Because when they get desperate
enough to commit a crime in order to eat or buy crack or sleep in a
warm spot for a night, true 'justice' (read Karma) would let it be
your house they rob, your car they jack up and strip for parts, and
your wallet they take. Because people are going to fill their needs
one way or another. Denying any human being food and shelter is a
shit way to live your life. Government assistance needs to be
available to every person. Not just the ones you approve of.
(rant not aimed at any one person. I'm
just really tired of seeing this piece of hatred spread across the
net.)
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