Welfare reform in the mid-1990s led to a dramatic reduction in welfare dependency and child poverty. This successful reform, however is now in jeopardy: Little-noted provisions in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate stimulus bills actually abolish this historic reform. In addition, the stimulus bills will add nearly $800 billion in new means-tested welfare spending over the next decade. This new spending amounts to around $22,500 for every poor person in the U.S. The cost of the new welfare spending amounts, on average, to over $10,000 for each family paying income tax. This pisses me off knowing there are drug dealers and crackheads on public assistance. I think public assistance should require drug testing in order to receive benifits. I don't have a drug habit and don't think I should have to support or enable someone else's. Yes it would be costly to drug test every applicant but damn! Think of all the money that could be saved by not supporting or enabling the drug user/abuser.