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"Don Homuth" <dhomuth1@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:06:23 GMT, Lobby Dosser
> <lobby.dosser.mapson@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> >Don Homuth <dhomuth1@comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:32:29 GMT, Lobby Dosser
> >> <lobby.dosser.mapson@verizon.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>>Don Homuth <dhomuth1@comcast.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> The folks elected don't invent the problems.  In fact, they'd as
> >>>> lief not have them in the first place.  They didn't invent the need
> >>>> for law enforcement, courts, public health, public infrastructure or
> >>>> a panoply of other needs that The People have declared are
> >>>> important.
> >>>
> >>>Did the majority of Americans clamor for Food Stamps?
> >>
> >> The grocery industry did, as did the folks handing out commodities --
> >> which were always a labor-intensive and therefore Expensive matter to
> >> deal with.  Food Stamps, it turns out, were the least expensive and
> >> most cost-effective way to deal with the entire Hunger issue -- which
> >> was and remains real in many places.
> >>
> >> The commodities, in turn, derived from the demand from various food
> >> industry sectors for price supports.
> >
> >The question was: Did the majority of Americans clamor for Food Stamps?
>
> The key players in the food industry certainly did.  Most Murkens
> weren't aware of them.

I could be wrong here but it seems I've read that when that program came
around, it was popular. Wasn't it one of those Great Society things? We were
gonna whip poverty, blah blah.. ?

Curt