More to the point, why do you allow your personal freedom to be invaded by taking a drug test? What a person does in their own time is of no concern to a entity paying them for a few hours of that persons day. I agree, however, that turning up to work while on wackey pills should get you the big shiny boot. If on a Friday night after work a person should choose to go make themselves comfortable in a gutter while staring at the moon, drooling and singing show tunes for a few hours, that's their choice and it's a private choice. You accepting that a employer has the right to test you i think is the main problem in this circumstance.

The question as to why welfare assistance programs exist in the first place is the same reason as to why this is a silly idea. The whole purpose of welfare is to enable people to get back into the workforce without them having to resort to worse means to be able to pull themselves out of poverty. The reason you pay a small amount of tax is to stop people coming and stealing large amounts from your land (people will step on you to survive).

That said one could assume that this would stop you from coming home and finding your house broken into and items stolen. After all your paying protection money to the government so this doesn't happen right? And if you choose not to pay this protection money? what happens? thugs come and take your stuff anyway. Instead of a tax system why don't we get rid of tax and run services like a capitalist society. If you want to be able to qualify for welfare you get 'welfare insurance'. If you want police to come protect you because you are a dirty hippy and don't want to own a gun, you pay 'police insurance'. You could also roll services in so if you wanted to continue with access to all services you currently have you could get just pay 'community membership' which is just 40-50% of your salary (about what you pay at the moment).

Personally I'd love to have some army stock and be on the stock holders board where each month we pick a country to invade. We could ransack each country under the banner of bringing democracy and freedom, if only that was possible!

Freedom exists only because people took a stand and said 'I wont accept this anymore'. It's nice to see your laying down and complaining that people are walking over you.