Britain attempts to reduce welfare

[UserX]

Even as an avid proponent of the freedom to use marijuana, I couldn't agree more.

Oh I am too, big time. But you need to clean up to get a job, so you shouldn't be smoking while on unemployment or welfare anyway. It would help ensure you're prepared to work, if an offer does come along. I really don't know why this isn't in place, it seems so logical to me.

[Kimmypie]

I really don't know why this isn't in place, it seems so logical to me.

Why ruin things with logic?

[YALE]

"At one time..." ? What changed your mind? Personally, I think the poor should be chemically sterilized. Otherwise they breed like cockroaches....or mexicans.

It's time to cull the heard. There are too many people getting "sumthin' for nuthin'..."

Fuck em!

The issue is, simply keeping the current poor from breeding doesn't stop anyone else from becoming poor. It would amount to treating the symptom, without treating the cause.

[95ragtop]

This would be a first step in the right direction if our government implemented something like this. How in the hell have 1.4 million been collecting unemployment for 10 YEARS? 1.4 million x 520 weeks (10 years) x $105 (weekly unemployment check) = $76.4 Billion or whatever that is in pounds. I am sure the same thing has been going on here, but instead of that, the POTUS's council is talking about freezing all military pay for 3 years. (I wouldn't even be against the idea if there was a equal, widespread way to try and fill the hole we have dug)

[GhostTX]

Wonder if they'll go as ape as the French when retirement was raised two years?

Good thing they don't have guns! LOL!

[mustangguy289]

I think you should have to take a pee pee test for any sort of govenment assistance. I mean, we have to take them to get a job, why shouldn't you have to take one for a handout?

Good for them.

I was down with that idea to until i realised who would have to pay for the pee pee test. You know the gov would be too stupid to take the cost out of the first assistance check.

[racrguy]

I was down with that idea to until i realised who would have to pay for the pee pee test. You know the gov would be too stupid to take the cost out of the first assistance check.

I think the amount of money saved would offset the costs of the tests IMO.

[UserX]

I think the amount of money saved would offset the costs of the tests IMO.

By FAR! And these tests are super cheap now, not like they were 15-20 years ago. Shit, you can buy them at the grocery store.