NAFTA Highway and Privatization of Roads - Politicians Beware! By Paul Weyrich

One question has always eluded me as I have examined public policy questions these past four decades. That is why when propositions are presented to the public so many people are outraged yet the legislators who approve them have absolutely no clue.

The latest example of this is the Immigration Bill. Both Republicans and Democrats who negotiated it expressed utter shock at the public reaction. When many of us worked on the Panama Canal Treaty, Senators who unexpectedly were defeated in both 1978 and 1980 could not believe the public anger over their votes. I recall the statement of Senator Thomas J. McIntyre (D-NH) when confronted with outrage over his vote for the Panama Treaty. He allowed as how he was elected to use his judgment and he knew better than the voters of New Hampshire. An Allegheny Airlines co-pilot, Gordon J. Humphrey, who never had held office at any level in New Hampshire, became Senator Humphrey in the 1978 election.

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