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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.

>>> How about multilingual ballots? ....
>> 
>> Why would the majority ask for multilingual ballots?  Most folks don't
>> need them.  But the majority does seem to accept the idea that those
>> who Can vote but need a multilingual ballot probably ought to have
>> one.
>
>Again, you back and fill. Legislatures clearly invented something that 
>the majority of their constituents was not clamoring for.

If the Only things  that legislatures may do is based Only on what
some alleged Majority of folks ask for, then little would ever get
done.

Most constituents don't ask for bridges across specific rivers, yet
they are provided withal, because Some constituents find them
necessary.