The Pitiful State of Our Union

I recently received an e-mail from a wine producer stating how they were disgusted with the welfare system in that the welfare system does not require a mandatory drug test from their clients in order to receive welfare benefits. This producer went on to say how that to work in this country that mandatory drug testing was required in order to obtain employment in a vast number of business in order to obtain a job and to pay taxes of which a big part of those taxes went to the welfare system where a big part of their clientele are drug addicts who do not have to take a drug test to receive benefits that non drug users have to pay.

At first this struck me wrong, for here I am thinking that he was down against drug addicts when he is a part of the problem in making wine, which to me is a drug. My thinking was that an alcoholic is no different than someone who is on heroin, marijuana, crystal methamphetamine, tobacco or any other numerous drugs and or products that are harmful to the human body. An alcoholic who can get so inebriated that they will drive down the wrong side of a freeway and then crash into another car killing a whole family is worse than someone who smokes pot, which is an illegal drug, which some states has approved the use of for chronic pain. An alcoholic who also gets on welfare and takes their EBT card to some unscrupulous business and exchanges the benefits for cash and then goes down to the local package store to obtain his product of choice, (wine, beer, whiskey), and then gets into their intoxicated state and become dangerous to humanity by getting into a vehicle and driving is far worse than the person who smokes a joint, gets high, and sits around buzzed.

I then spent the next week thinking about the e-mail that was sent to me, and came to the conclusion that there is a problem not only with random drug testing and the welfare system, but also with welfare and the way it is handled, drugs, laws, politicians, the political system as a whole and the long list of abuse that has erupted in our democratic society since our founding fathers rebelled against the abuse that England imposed upon them back in 1776.