And its value proposition takes advantage of the fact that high labor costs in the United States encourage home owners to engage in do-it-yourself projects.
Such a proposition, taken to its logical extreme, would reduce fiction to autobiography, and while fiction may well be alive and kicking in the belly of many an autobiography, to confine fiction solely to that domain would be madness.
Not surprisingly, given Mr. Cave's fondness for the baroquely macabre (one of his recent CD's is titled "Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus"), "The Proposition" takes a jaundiced view of the frontier.
On both sides of the referendum, people were energised by an astonishing proposition: take everything you're used to in politics and imagine you could put it to one side and start again.
You may well have been taught in school the same thing I was taught, that the New Deal brought an end to the Great Depression; but, of a hundred economists surveyed in the mid-nineties, nearly half agreed with the proposition "Taken as a whole, government policies of the New Deal served to lengthen and deepen the Great Depression".
The Proposition took effect in 1998.
So here's the proposition: Take a stand.
Supporters collected more than $1.8 million in contributions in 2014, while political organizations opposing the proposition took in more than $24 million during that time. . .
Moreover, unlike the determinate sentencing laws that got us into this mess in the first place, the proposition takes into account individual circumstances so that the sentence is appropriate to the crime and individual.
Jason Kinney, a spokesman for the campaign opposing the proposition, took issue with Nader's position, saying the consumer advocate "might stand with trial lawyers, but California's health providers, Planned Parenthood and community clinics, education, labor, business and local government groups all stand firmly against the high costs of Proposition 46". .
