So the economy is down, eh? Perfect! We can use this opportunity to shift blame to the poor. Let’s start with the welfare recipients. By requiring that they must pass a piss test to get benefits, we may have to violate the fourth amendment — but the ends justify the means, right? Especially when drug use runs rampant among those on welfare, and we can save taxpayers lots of money in the process.

Unless, of course, it turns out that welfare recipients use drugs far less than the average American, and the whole program actually wastes hundreds of thousands of dollars. Then we’d look foolish, right? All that constitutional subversion for nothing!