The North Carolina House Passes HB 392 Requiring Background Checks For Welfare And Food Stamp Recipients

Liberals are going crazy (short trip) over a North Carolina bill that requires background checks for food stamps. The idea is to bar applicants and recipients with outstanding warrants or other active violations from welfare and food stamp programs. What's wrong with that goal? There is a good argument the law doesn't go far enough. What about drug testing welfare recipients? I have had to face a drug test to get my paycheck. Why shouldn't welfare recipients have to face one to get their free handout from the taxpayers?

People seeking federal assistance in North Carolina are one step closer to being forced to undergo background checks in order to get the help they need. The North Carolina House passed HB 392 by a final vote of 106-6 on Thursday. The bill now goes to the Senate.

Introduced last week by Republicans, HB 392 mandates that all people applying for federal aid such as food assistance must undergo a background check, which the North Carolina Association of County Boards of Social Services says would likely dissuade individuals and families from seeking help because “if people think they are going to be prosecuted or arrested for even seeking our services, that’s a big concern for us.”

In other words, poor people with children who desperately need food may be too frightened to seek help. This bill targets the poor unfairly, and forcing them to have a background check is humiliating, especially when most people on welfare feel bad about needing assistance in the first place. More crazy liberal opinion here...