Less Welfare Applicants? Coincedental?

One of the large controversies taking place within our country is the amount of "unfair" and "unreasonable" policies of the welfare programs being offered to low income families. Some may argue that the majority of Americans are scapegoating the minorities who live on the incoming welfare checks. Ms. Kimberly Davis of Operation Breakthrough (New York Times) believes that "all this does is perpetuate the stereotype that low-income people are lazy, shiftless drug addicts," which she is mostly correct in believing. But, unfortunately, the results of Florida Legislators passing the mandatory drug testing bills stand against her.
In Florida, people receiving cash assistance through welfare have had to pay for their own drug tests since July. This has resulted in the lowest welfare applications since the start of the recession. Could this be because of the guilty people who do use drugs and know that they will fail the mandatory testing? Quite possibly. The fact of the matter is that many American tax payers feel cheated out of their own money when it goes to welfare recipients who don't even use the money for the correct purposes (i.e drugs and alcohol). A parent who uses drugs cannot properly provide for their children when the welfare money goes towards unnecessary things. Although the possibility of this new policy causes a lot of anger towards local legislation one must face the facts; urination samples are needed to participate in most jobs nowadays so this should be expected by welfare applicants, should it not?
All in all, I particularly agree with legislation's idea of testing for illegal drug use in welfare applicants. Not only will this lower the amount of taxes paid by your average American but it will also ensure correct use of the Welfare fees.