[patriciaruth]

Why aren't they asked, and why don't they have a choice?

This is a representative democracy. We are all asked every couple years. Our representatives then pass laws and measures that support or don't support these programs.

Your assertion that nobody has a say in this is ridiculous.

You may have a quarrel with majority rule in this country, but your complaint seems to be that the people you would prefer to represent you don't seem to know how to get elected.

[hedgetrimmer]

We are all asked every couple years.

Nope doesn't fly. We weren't asked to give up our Constitution, and no elected representative can legitimately ask us to do that. In fact, if they did, they would be violating their oath of office.

We DON'T have a say as individual citizens. The unconstitutional phony 'working groups' the government sets up out of country to make decisions that affect all Americans are not representative government, and the voice of the citizen is not solicited there.

This is one of the methods that the government is using for usurping our right to elected representation, there are many more. It is not possible to defend the actions of our current government, it is not representative , and it is not Constitutional.

[endthematrix]

"This is a representative democracy."

Aiming for global plutocracy.