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Even if a mother is smoking crack, her kids shouldn't starve to death. It's definitely harder to justify food stamps for able-bodied adults with no dependents. Part of the reason for that is that the food stamp program was conceived as an agricultural subsidy as much as it was a welfare program.

They had to live in shelters (including the Astrodome) for the first couple of weeks, but were given housing vouchers after that. Unaccompanied children would have been the highest priority for the social and relief workers who tended to the catastrophes. No one affected by Katrina is currently...