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,..." ---------------------------------------------
ah but you hit on it. Tranquility and Welfare are left open. Defense, is specifically mandated. On Jan 7, 2:49 pm, studio <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 7, 12:19 pm, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: >Tran > > "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.
