A thousand policies prop up the rich -- licensing laws, regressive taxes, outright giveaways, farm aid, military spending contracts, absurd patent and copyright laws, secured higher education loans, banking regulations and credit expansions.
The company that controls two-thirds of the world diamond trade, De Beers, said it had stopped buying gems on the open market, a policy that props up prices to lower inventory costs.
The policy props up Sufi Islam, the traditional, mystical form of the religion in this region.
Meanwhile politicians would be tempted to turn banks into instruments of industrial policy, propping up politically powerful industries such as carmakers and scrimping on more deserving recipients.
Directly above the official FDA seal, a campaign mailer read that the agency "says a labeling policy like Prop 37 would be 'inherently misleading.'" A FDA spokeswoman later denied that the agency had made "such statements with respect to Prop 37".
Nonetheless, a policy of continuing to prop up repressive regimes is like playing Russian roulette with foreign policy, as America discovered when the shahs fall turned Iran from staunch friend to implacable foe.
In a mailer sent to California voters, the "No" campaign printed the following text along side the FDA logo: "The US Food and Drug Administration says a labeling policy like Prop 37 would be "inherently misleading".
But once he became president, flyover country was just that, or worse: a fund-raising stop or a prop for a policy initiative.
The human rights group said it would not prioritise the human rights of individuals removed from the UK over those of other inmates or "prop-up" a policy it believes will lead to torture and ill treatment.
For the past five years, under two successive administrations, Seoul has abandoned its long-standing antagonism toward Pyongyang, adopting instead a policy of engagement, aimed at propping up North Korea with aid and trade.
