Welfare recipients will go wild until screened for addiction. Then lay down the rules.
Yet another reason why welfare recipients should be screened for alcohol and other-drug addiction, with random and regular follow-up testing
California state officials recently acknowledged that hundreds of thousands of dollars in welfare payments have been dispensed monthly by ATMs in casinos and strip clubs. Officials are doing what they can to prevent such abuse by making it so ATMs in such locations will not dispense state cash. While such abuse has so far cost the state at least $5 million, a relatively insignificant amount in a state with an admitted $19 billion budget gap, the old saying, “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” may apply.
While there’s no question many welfare recipients wouldn’t survive without state aid or charity (the latter of ...
