trying to get the political support needed to work out a better budget deal that affects poor people, doesn t jam medicaid, provides relief for medicare. provides relief for emergency services. all of those things are an important piece of democracy and can only be achieved at the ballot box. i fundamentally disagree. this new project with the big idea fund, we don t need government spending. ryan is talking about four percentage points in spending. we have all the money we need. it s going there s no place for it but you still have to have government to reallocate. all i would say the one thing i guess i would say, if the vote were not important, no one would be trying to suppress it. that s not what i m saying. in terms of spending, we have all the money we need. it needs to be organized better and it s possible. there are alternative economic models that we re looking at and talking about. no, i don t disa agree, i think. here s the problem. food stamp policy is determ