The voters had nothing to do with the Constitution. It was authored by the most intelligent, educated, FREE individuals in the colonies who were brave enough to risk their own lives, the lives of their families, and their fortunes to introduce a better way of life...a democracy.

A lot of people still believe that Democrat=supporting a democracy. Sadly, this isn't the case. Another falsehood is that affiliation with a party means that a candidate believes in and supports the official party position. Which, of course, appears more centered than the reality of the goals of many politicians and jurists.

Use your intelligence, listen to the candidates and what they are saying, and figure out what those promises, if they come to be, will impact you. Not just the anticipated benefit, but also the cost of those benefits. Government cannot provide a product or service cheaper than free enterprise. It may carry a lower "out of pocket" price tag, but the real costs are many times higher.

Take, for example, table sugar. Sugar comes primarily from sugar beets and sugar cane. Here in Michigan, sugar beets are a major crop. The government GUARANTEES that the farmers will receive 24 cents per pound. The government GUARANTEES that the farmers will have 85% or more of the U.S. sugar market. But to please the UN, imports of sugar more than 15% of annual demand will be bought by the government, at WTO approved pricing, and it will be used for ethanol production. The amount of land planted for beets is also controlled, and farmers are paid not to grow if there is a sugar surplus. Why? Because the price of sugar might fall, and then we could export it, but Brazil, the #1 world producer and exporter of sugar, would lose a part of their market.

Since refined sugar is a WHOLE lot more expensive than the cellulosic materials that could be used for ethanol, such as sugar cane after extraction, and a WHOLE lot more expensive than corn which is the basis for most current ethanol production, the cost of this "greener" fuel is ridiculously high. So there is an additional government subsidy for ethanol brewers and refiners. Who pays these subsidies? We do.