| Spending and making laws are all about the consent | of the governed, doing things they want. They're not | about math or logic. The 'consent' that the p

| Spending and making laws are all about the consent | of the governed, doing things they want. They're not | about math or logic. The 'consent' that the public gives here is implicit, not explicit. You can't say that someone agrees with 100% of what their elected official does. It's an impossibility. And many times this should be about math and logic. Do we really know if all of the measures taken after 9/11 are what the public demanded? What if the politicians went over-board and the the American public just went along with it? What if the American public would have been ok with a much smaller reaction? It's not like there was a poll asking the American public: "How far should we go?"