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Al
Let's see, $48 billion more in corporate welfare for defense
contractors.
MJ
Not *EXACTLY* corporate welfare, but certainly --arguably -- misspent.
Al
More money to the big bankers in the form of interest on the
new deficits.
MJ
What is a 'Big Banker'? Is that something like my young daughter who
owns some of this debt? Any perks due her?
Al
More money for the Homeland Clampdown.
MJ
The 'Drug War' of the New Century ...
Al
Reductions in everything else.
MJ
If ONLY this were indeed true.
Al
Oh, and tax cuts for big business and the rich.
MJ
Businesses do not pay taxes in the first place.
The 'rich' pay the BULK of the income taxes -- so such would
certainly make sense (a person who pays ZERO would receive
how much of a tax cut?)
Al
America's infrastructure (roads, hospitals, flood prevention,
schools, and other basic, vital parts of our nation and American
lives) has been crumbling for over 20 years, and this budget is
a death blow.
MJ
Can you POINT to the article, section and clause or amendment
whereby the Federal Government has *any* Power To accomplish
*any* of these items you list?
Al
Is this what it means to "Promote the General Welfare"?
MJ
Of course not.
The 'meaning' of this phrase can be found in those enumerated
functions found within the Constitution. Perhaps you are attempting
to apply a 20th century definition to an 18th Century ideal -- your
equivalent would be 'poor law'.
Al
I don't consider myself particularly liberal or anti-Bush, but this
budget is really evil and shortsighted.
MJ
Evil? Shortsighted? Got me.
Unconstitutional? Certainly. Theft? Certainly.
The Budget should be LESS that $100 billion -- not $2+ trillion.
Regard$,
--MJ
With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always
regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers
connected with them. To take them in a literal and
unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the
Constitution into a character which there is a host
of proofs was not contemplated by its creators. If
the words obtained so readily a place in the "Articles
of Confederation," and received so little notice in
their admission into the present Constitution, and
retained for so long a time a silent place in both,
the fairest explanation is, that the words, in the
alternative of meaning nothing or meaning everything,
had the former meaning taken for granted.
-- James Madison to James Robertson, 20 April 1831
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