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I like the sentiment but I think everyone knows given our court system today these would be tossed out as unconstitutional. Further the manpower to check up on these people I don’t want to have to pay for, and further, I seriously don’t want government in any form being able to go big brother on any segment of our population - that just gets abused and bigger in the long run.

My answer to this is simple. And it is far more humane and moral than having government make contracts with people that have all these conditions on it.

The answer is no welfare at all from any level of government. Period. Like it used to be. What they can provide is a printed up list of charitable organizations, churches, food banks, job centers, etc and pass them out to people. That’s it.

No contracts, no castrating people, no random testing, no additional bureaucratic infrastructure to enforce contract provisions (ie no bigger nanny state/big brother state), nothing a court can toss out in a lawsuit.

That’s the solution. Point them to the private groups and charities that do a far better job at helping people in need, than the government ever could.

the manpower to check up on these people I don’t want to have to pay for,

But you are ok with throwing money at the problem for years and years on end? The manpower is already there,and you're already paying for it.They're called caseworkers.Get em out of the office and into the field where the people are.Something must be done.

far more humane and moral

Yes,it is far more humane and moral to just tell everyone with children and babies that welfare is over,get out,no more checks as of today.Yeah.That makes MUCH more sense than training them to get out and contribute to the society that they're living off of.

I seriously don’t want government in any form being able to go big brother on any segment of our population - that just gets abused and bigger in the long run.

OK,so we better end the raids to find illegal aliens or drug dealers.
Come on...we're talking about local government agency caseworkers visiting welfare recipients-not a raid by the federal government.

no castrating people,

Who said anything about castrating people? Amazing.Look,the bottom line of this proposal is to get people out and working,get them productive,and hopefully ending welfare once and for all.A little state or county-level oversight is not a big deal.As long as the federal government is out of it,there should be no problem.

printed up list of charitable organizations, churches, food banks, job centers, etc and pass them out to people.

And of course there'd be volunteers to do that...NOT.Do you realize how much churches would be hurt by that? And...job centers? We have "job centers":those are federal agencies-something you distrust.And do they provide training free of charge? Forgive me but you seem a little contradictory.