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"Curt" <cje@hevanet.com> wrote:

> 
> "Don Homuth" <dhomuth1@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:nmore2pmdrufentcfk7uih6qfgk6hlohku@4ax.com...
>> 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.. ?

War on Poverty. Something we can all blame LBJ for. IIRC, he was the 
first. Since the we've had wars on drugs, illiteracy (jeez I hope I 
spelled that right), homelessness, terrorism, and all sorts of other 
nonsense like tooth decay and nose picking.