Sex, Drugs, and R&R

The sugggestion has been made that all Portland police oficers undergo random drug testing, a suggestion apparently made by someone who was up all night "cramming" for his own drug test.

If mandatory random drug tests are to be required of police officers, should not also firemen and EMTs be tested?  And why not ALL city employees?  It is blatantly obvious that both caffeine and meth is in short supply both at city hall and most city shops. 

On a grander scale, why is drug testing not mandatory for welfare, unemployment compensation, workers' comp claimants, and/or food stamp recipients?  It's your money that pays them, shouldn't you have a say in who gets a check, and who gets cut off?  If little Elvis is a stoner, should he be "entitled" to public payments?  If Miss Sunshine snorts or spikes meth, does she truly need food stamps or an Oregon Trail card to protect her kids? 

I find it mildly hypocritical that the OLCC punishes bartenders for "overserving," and yet will sell  via their monopolistic retail outlets a case of "Panther Sweat" on demand:  no chance of overserving there.  And now we are seeing "medical" marijuana cafes to service those poor sufferers for whom the only relief is a bong hit of some killer skunkweed.  Surely there's no hypocricy there.

Drug abuse by police officers surely exists, and a "sweep" might net one, or even two errant officers:  you know, those people who daily risk their lives just by showing up for work, unlike most politicians, who are more likely to risk YOUR live by showing up for work.  And the means of "masking" drug abuses are available over-the-counter to police as well as to welfare mothers, compensation fraudsters, and politicians as well.

Drug testing?  As a retired Teamster, we were drug-tested long before it became the vogue:  the guys who stayed "clean" have nothing to fear.   So, in all "fairness,"  let's see mandatory random testing for ALL government workers and for all "entitlement" recipients as well.  It is YOUR money, isn't it?.