No Savings Are Found From Welfare Drug Tests

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

Ignore it if you want, but it's that sort of attitude that rapidly makes a few thousand dollars, here and there, turn into millions. A real conservative should consider if an action is fiscally responsible, rather than making decisions based on some sort of ideological imperative.

If you let people think they can get away with abusing the system without any reprecussions, they'll lose respect for rules in general. Seems to me that would end up costing us much more.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

If you let people think they can get away with abusing the system without any reprecussions, they'll lose respect for rules in general. Seems to me that would end up costing us much more.

So you do something to monitor the situation, perhaps by doing a survey style set of tests every few years, then act IF it is found to be fiscally responsible. You don't just jump all over something because it sounds like a good idea.

For example up here, in the Vancouver area, they have done safe injection sites and needle exchanges for IV drug users. Sure, the use of such drugs is illegal, but the reality of the situation is that people do use them, become sick, and then become a burden on the health care system. Just keeping something like two people from getting hepatitis or AIDS, in the long run, pays for such an injection site for a year.