General Welfare Clause - Free Goodies

[Keith Broaders]

The Constitution provides for General Welfare, but not Specific Welfare. General Welfare benefits everyone while Specific Welfare benefits some at the expense of others. The purpose of our government is to protect our rights not to redistribute wealth and provide free goodies.

Specific Welfare is how the elected officials reward their supporters and punish their opponents. Showing preferential treatment to some at the expense of others is unethical, immoral and gives rise to crime, corruption and perpetual debt.

If it is wrong for you to take another man's property, how can it be ethical to hire another man or organization to commit the theft in your behalf? What is a crime when committed by individuals is still a crime when it is committed by governments.

When a man takes the property of his neighbor without his consent it is called theft. When a government does the same thing it is called taxation. If man has a right to own and dispose of his own property, how can the government do what we as individuals can not lawfully do? If it is wrong for a man to steal from his neighbor it is also wrong for a government take the property of an individual without his consent.

[David Elizalda]

Thomas Jefferson said it best: The enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with chains of the Constitution as the second will not become the legalized version of the first.

 And he also said, " The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution.

We have a president. first time in our history, who has the arrogance to say that the Constitution is restraining and has "flaws". 

We need the accountability of a Thomas Paine and his "Common Sense" to eloquently and sensibly speak-up to non-sensible rhetoric that seeks only to systematically and progressively dismantle over 200 years of monumental struggle only to be erased by a pen on the whim of one man.

[kathye t]

Tim Hawkins - The Government Can (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2eh6f5Go0