Asura.Catastrophe said:
People are too focused on perception rather efficiency. The government should not be responsible for individual citizen's regressions. If you don't like the idea of being on welfare, don't be on welfare. People need to take some personal responsibility for themselves as a whole, which has been sorely falling apart the last 40 or so years. I understand the need for some of these government programs, but no one is putting a status on your permanent record if you apply for welfare benefits that you "could be a drug user". It's to ensure safety and lean in an existing government program, which quite frankly, is more often abused than most. This isn't denying said recipients of benefits, it's not profiling. When I work for a company, they aren't profiling me when I take a drug test, they are ensuring a lean company profile.
I largely feel the unemployment rate is simply due to people exploiting unemployment benefits. These aren't the bottom tier people, these are people who work in Silicon Valley, middle class who aren't willing to drop their standard of living. But this drug mandate isn't for unemployment weeding, like I said, I feel it's to reduce unnecessary spending and waste.
Getting a job really isn't hard these days. Getting a job you specifically want, may be. I'm about to attend a private hiring conference this weekend where the applicant/job opportunity ratio is 1 applicant for every 2 jobs, and it's representative of the technical side of careers in the Northeast region of the United States, not specifically where I'm localized. They are there. And yes, I am currently employed as well.
I largely feel the unemployment rate is simply due to people exploiting unemployment benefits. These aren't the bottom tier people, these are people who work in Silicon Valley, middle class who aren't willing to drop their standard of living. But this drug mandate isn't for unemployment weeding, like I said, I feel it's to reduce unnecessary spending and waste.
Getting a job really isn't hard these days. Getting a job you specifically want, may be. I'm about to attend a private hiring conference this weekend where the applicant/job opportunity ratio is 1 applicant for every 2 jobs, and it's representative of the technical side of careers in the Northeast region of the United States, not specifically where I'm localized. They are there. And yes, I am currently employed as well.
Afghanistan currently has the highest unemployment rate in the world.
Correlation does not imply causation, meaning the existence of those programs doesn't correlate to the reasoning that unemployment exists in this day and age, it existed before welfare and it will continue to exist without it.
You can feel that it is that way, and it may be true to a certain extent.
But in a population so vast that isn't the only excuse.
The war against drugs, which this is a part of is just another extension of the Governmental fear campaign.
Don't do drugs(doesn't matter if it's your time or not) or you'll get drug tested and canned
and then you better stop or you can't get unemployment.
Rather than addressing the people they address the symptoms with that.
Though of course this doesn't really apply to everyone leeching off the system.
you don't have to be a drug addict to leech off the government and this pretty much is just making an example of a specific group that they can easily identify getting railed.
