You betcha Dan. Didn't you know that the current group of elected pols are doing everything in their power to discard this piece of history? In fact they are so interested in doing it they even call people who disagree with them as unpatrotic or if you are a judge an activist.
Mike Fratto Payne Phalen >>> Dan Dobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/01/04 2:13 PM >>> I knew that I had read about "The common good", that Mr. Thompson is ranting about as a socialist or communist phrase, someplace in my History or Civics classes and guess what I found, the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States which says: "THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." So I guess when the Founding Fathers; Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, Madison et al, wrote the Constitution and included the phrase "promote the general Welfare" they were just a bunch of socialists or communists planning to set up a socialist state here in America and put everyone on the dole. Right Mr. Thompson? Dan Dobson Saint Paul -- Tom & Elsa Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I never said government wasn't there to provide certain things, primarily security and protection. However, when one states that all government should do is promote the "common good" that to me sounds like a socialistic state. When one talks about governments primary role as being for the "welfare" of all, that sounds socialistic to me. Tom Thompson Como Park _____________________________________________ To Join: St. Paul Issues Forum Rules Discussion Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________________________ NEW ADDRESS FOR LIST: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your password - visit: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul Archive Address: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/ _____________________________________________ To Join: St. Paul Issues Forum Rules Discussion Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________________________ NEW ADDRESS FOR LIST: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your password - visit: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul Archive Address: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/
