Fatties and welfare It must be that time again, I'm starting to see posts about welfare creeping up on my news feed and it made me start thinking. There is a free way to eliminate an even larger group of welfare abusers.  If we don't want drug addicts receiving welfare because they use it to fuel their addiction and cost the state more money in healthcare then we should start screening with BMI as well. If you have the money to keep yourself fat then you don't need any government handouts, especially not for food!  Why should the government keep enabling fat Americans to get fatter when obesity healthcare costs are huge and on the rise? Considering the state of the country, welfare costs would plummet. Not to mention, there's no 4th Amendment issues with measuring a persons height and weight. I can't really see a downside, it's not like the obese are going to starve without food stamps!