The proponents of the War on Drugs never take a rest from conjuring up new and cruel ways to beat up on vulnerable populations for political gain. 2011 saw the rapid emergence of a particular nasty variety of this drug warrior tact, drug testing the poor to receive public assistance. Regardless of how one feels about the concept of public assistance in general, this idea is utterly cruel and is merely a tactic by “the haves” to pit “the barely haves” (or perhaps “near-have-nots”) against the “have nots.” Several states passed laws to their state’s welfare laws, and now Congress is considering applying this approach to for Federal unemployment funds. 