thunder wrote:
On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:50:18 -0400, Lu Powell wrote:

"thunder" wrote in message
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On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:06:16 -0700, Jack wrote:


The hell it doesn't. It's in the Preamble, right after "provide for
the common defence". It's "promote the general Welfare".
While you guys would love to spin it that way, you damn well know the
founding fathers didn't intend that statement to mean that the gov is
supposed to provide health care or heath insurance to its people.
Health insurance didn't even exist in the US when this was written.

You're fooling no one. You're either being disingenuous, or you're a
socialist idiot.
Man couldn't fly, either, when the Constitution was written, but we
have an Air Force? So, are you saying health care doesn't "promote the
general Welfare", or are you saying the Founding Fathers expected this
country to stay exactly as it was in 1787?
So why not lobby for a constitutional amendment that would clarify the
issue? Barring that, sue for the elimination of the air force.

Because denying an Air Force provides for the common defence, is as silly
as saying health care doesn't promote the general Welfare.

The air force falls under a different constitutional provision. The
federal government must provide for the common defense which today mean
an air force, in addition to the army and navy.