Poverty and Welfare

If someone really wants to address 'poverty' in America and wants to reduce the number of people dependent upon society, then stop paying people for being unproductive. Eliminate the welfare state as we know it. Make people accept responsibility for their decisions. I'm not saying to put grandma out on the street. If an elderly person of retirement age who has worked their entire life and either failed to prepare properly or met with ill luck (Jake Butcher or Enron) they deserve help. Someone of working age should not be on welfare, assistance, the dole, or whatever PC accepted term is in use. They should not be paid to be nonproductive. (A working family occasionally may need help during a financial crisis, but these are usually the last to ask for help.) And if someone chooses to reproduce with an unproductive person, they should not "get paid to get laid" -- outside of government programs this is prostitution and people go to jail. As the old saying goes, 'you made your bed, now lie in it', don't expect someone to clean it up for you. Another thing to make the liberals cry, why is there no drug test for people applying for "assistance" ? Most American companies require potential employees to pass a drug test as a condition of employment and random drug testing is generally used to help ensure their employees safety. Consider it 'job training', don't pass a drug test, don't get hired, don't pass a drug test, don't get any form of welfare. Period. Come back if you clean up your act. Even the military requires drug testing and we are sending them into combat, all we are asking the welfare class to do is to take the money of hardworking American taxpayers. That is a disgrace.