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,..."
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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.

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