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water Food stamps assist low income people and kids in getting an adequate diet in a land of plenty. Medicare and Medicaid offer health protection for many long denied it. Civil rights and voting rights laws correct centuries of injustice
All of these measures were sponsored and enacted by a Democratic party concerned with the well-being of ordinary folks, minorities and the less fortunate. Almost all of them were bitterly opposed by a Republican party concerned with the well-being of the
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