thunder wrote:
On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:05:22 +0000, Steve wrote:


Congress has no authority to grant "health care."

The hell it doesn't. It's in the Preamble, right after "provide for the
common defence". It's "promote the general Welfare".
Promote does not mean provide.

PROMOTE:
1. To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any
process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to
encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to promote learning; to promote
disorder; to promote a business venture. "Born to promote all truth."
--Milton. [1913 Webster]


PROVIDE.
1. To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect,
or make ready for future use; to prepare. "Provide us all things
necessary." --Shak. [1913 Webster]

2. To supply; to afford; to contribute. [1913 Webster]

Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit As the kind, hospitable woods
provide. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

3. To furnish; to supply; -- formerly followed by of, now by with. "And
yet provided him of but one." --Jer. Taylor. "Rome . . . was well
provided with corn." --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]

4. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate; as, the contract
provides that the work be well done. [1913 Webster]