It's just another example of the ignorance that runs rampant on the right these days. "People on assistance are a bunch of mooching drug addicts". Well, seven states decided to start drug testing people on welfare. Here's what they found out: "Six months after rolling out a controversial law to test people for drugs who are applying for public benefits, only 37 of more than 16,000 applicants have tested positive for illegal drugs." http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati ... /23140147/ "About 9 percent of Arizona residents report using illicit drugs in the past month. Out of the 142,424 applicants to the state’s welfare program, just three, or 0.002 percent, tested positive for drug use...Arizona’s experience is remarkably similar to the other six states that have functioning welfare drug testing programs. Altogether they’ve spent nearly $1 million on the tests, with millions more likely to come. Given that they’ve collectively had less than 500 positive tests, the savings in other states in withheld benefits can’t be much more than in Arizona " http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/0 ... t-savings/ Data from these seven states indicates that drug use among welfare recipients is lower than that of the general population. But despite all the data proving otherwise and the fact that welfare has work requirements, wingnuts just "know" that most poor people on assistance are a bunch of lazy drug addicts. If they weren't they wouldn't be on welfare, would they? They believe it because they want to believe it and it makes it a whole lot easier to justify being a selfish ass.