On Jan 7, 12:19 pm, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > "The fundamental problem is that Republicans (conservatives), like Democrats > (liberals), honestly believe that the legitimate role of the federal > government is to take care of people through a welfare state. That’s what > Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, education grants, foreign > aid, FDIC, bank bailouts, and other welfare-state programs are all about -- > taking care of people. Republicans are not about to challenge the moral > legitimacy of that paradigm or its programs.
It's not a fundamental problem at all; it's part of the Constitution. "...insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general Welfare,..." Notice how "defense" does not begin with a capital letter, but all other words with emphasis are? It's not a typo. That's the way it was written for a reason. The real issue is not whether they have authority to promote general welfare, but in the who, what, where, when, why and how of doing it. What we have now is not so much a problem of Welfare, rather it's that of domestic in-Tranquility and common Offense. Blaming the poor, needy, suffering, hungry, homeless, destitute, infirm and those that take care of them is simply uncivilized. You have to PROVE particular money is being wasted and how. The people, or more likely courts and judges, will decide who is right and wrong, not a ideology. -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
