While searching "Opposing view points" I found an article written by a girl name "Ranee" which caught my eye because our names are the same except mine is spelled "Renee".
She has a pretty harsh story on how she personally experienced neglect from her mother who has been collecting unemployment and not using it the way it should be.
"Ranee is a writer and contributor to Helium. In the following viewpoint, she expresses her strong support for mandatory drug testing of welfare recipients. Ranee argues that welfare should be reserved for emergency situations, not for drug addicts. She uses her own mother as a cautionary tale of a person who has abused both drugs and the welfare system, which she maintains has encouraged her mother's habits and has motivated others to engage in the same behavior."
Before you read the article there are a three questions that you are advised to think about while you read the information:

• What option does the author believe a welfare recipient should have if he or she fails the drug test due to a prescribed drug?
• How does Ranee respond to Bill Piper's point that drug testing is an invasion of privacy?
• How does Ranee state that her mother abused the welfare system?

"The same should apply to government testing as the workforce testing. If someone has to give a drug test for government assistance and fails due to a prescribed controlled drug, that doesn't mean that they won't receive assistance or that they will lose it. They simply have to prove that the drug is prescribed to them by a physician."
She mentions something that I have come across with in many of the campaigns against drug testing welfare participants and that is that many people are afraid of losing their governmental assistance if they come out positive because of prescribed drugs, but doesn't it seem logical that if they are truly prescribed drugs then they can easily prove this with a doctors prescription. No one can expect that you welfare be taken away if you medically are in need of certain prescription drugs and to be against drug testing welfare participants because of this seems irrational and making up excuses.

"Bill Piper [Director of National Affairs of the Drug Policy Alliance] tries to debate the subject with Mike Bennett [US Senator from Colorado] on Fox News. Piper states that it is an invasion of privacy and would be humiliating for someone to have to admit that they are on Viagra or anti depressants. Honestly, if I were a man that lost my job and home and could not afford to feed my family, I would be more embarrassed to be on welfare than to reveal a certain prescription I'm on to the "stranger" giving me a drug test. If your kids are starving, that should NOT matter or even cross your mind! Bill Piper believes that drug testing recipients on welfare would be "too expensive" and risky for kids whose parents won't return to the DHS [Department of Human Services] office for extended funding due the fear of a drug test."
She makes a great point that the TRUELY needy wont care about anything that they have to do if they need to feed their families or live another day. I think that people keep forgetting that governmental help is a BENEFIT not a luxury and its not something that people in a low income family are entitled to its something that should be taken care of

"That's a good thing right? Wouldn't that encourage people to get clean to at least renew their food stamps? Piper believes that instead of testing we should just "expand access to treatment" (because you know an addict on welfare can't afford to go to rehab.) This guy is ridiculous. Welfare rehab? Is he being serious? That would cause taxes to go sky hi! "
This is giving people too much of a break or freedom to do what ever they want. If we want to build America upward we need to establish policies and governmental help that give people the incentive to work and better their life's.

"I'm not downing the welfare system; I just believe that it should be reserved for emergency situations, like people losing their jobs because of the economy and the disabled. It shouldn't go to people like my mother who lack the incompetence to keep a job due to drug use"
This is the statements from Ranee that truly caught my eye and mind. Like she said its not about saying that welfare should be terminated or that helping the needy is wrong but this help since it is getting so hard to get with so many budget cuts should be available to those who truly need it because they were laid off not because they have a problem with drugs or alcohol.

and finally to put the cherry on top...
"Weren't the Bill of Rights created to protect the rights of citizens ... so Piper is basically saying "you have the right to abuse drugs, and turn down a drug test because you have something to hide". Come on! it's just as easy as getting a physical in junior high to play a school sport, no one wants to get the physical because they're weird, but all the kids want to play ball. In the end the physical was for their own good. I know we can only control so much but it's our honest hard earned money, don't we have a RIGHT to know that it's going to a good cause?"

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