🚀 go-pugleaf

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?

> 
>> 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.
>