[TheBattman]

With all the clean up work needed, it would make sense to get these people on clean up detail, then pay them at the end of the day with the food stamps. Make them work for it. Might take a few pounds off in the process.

What a radical idea!!!! Making folks actually WORK to EARN what they are getting... Oh mY! That just won't do.

[Texas resident]

Radical idea indeed.

Look into the history of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900.
Convicts were brought in to gather the dead. Best estimates were around 8,000 bodies. The convicts were given whiskey to help them through their day. Those that refused to work were shot and killed. No bull.

Our society sure has changed. Now the inmates set the terms.