Yeah! Great revision. Like you said, not gonna happen. But, really, honest people who really needed to work really benefited from FDR's plan. They built roads, maintained government land, even dug ditches & filled them back up. THE point was....They were doing something besides sitting around, waiting on the next check to go straight to the drug house with. Gave the jobless man some dignity. It's just a pathetic state the system's in now. A good idea, but when you put imperfect people into the mix, some will willfully take advantage. I agree, make the punishment so harsh, that the slackers would be very hesitant to take advantage of the system.

I believe prisons should be run the same way. The ones that made a mistake, want to get their time done & return to a productive life in society should be given an ample opportunity to do so. When an inmate goes into a prison system & comes out with more criminal contacts & is a more violent, aggressive individual when he went in.....There's a problem. I have never been in prison & hope never to be, but I watch a lot of those shows documenting the crap that goes on in some institutions & wonder just how effective it really is to lock someone up for decades or even life. From what I have seen & a number of individuals I have met & known who have been in prison for a length of time proved to me that it's really doing little more than keeping dangerous people off the street. In reality, they receive training to become more dangerous & effective criminals for the most part.

I was a kitchen supervisor In Las Vegas for years & had a great deal of difficult individuals working for me. Gang bangers, pimps, drug dealers, thugs, etc. If I ran my crew like I have seen some of these institutions run, I would be the one working while my employees ran me around like their little bi**h. You can be nice, but drop the hammer when you have to & get the attention of individuals who do not want to obey the rules. Respect is key and when the tough guys know you're not going to put up with their crap for a second, and you prove that to them when they test you & try & step on your toes....They usually get the picture quickly & get their act together. I also carried a .45 automatic with me everywhere I went but while I was actually on the floor working. I never told anyone, but anyone that knew me, knew what I was about. I'm not saying I have all the answers, but it seems the prisoners are the ones controlling the prison, not the staff.

It can't stay like this forever. At least that's what I believe anyways. My two pennies. Steve