The Founders Understood The Dangers Of Welfare And Redistribution Schemes : Personal Liberty™.
Along with my last post, here is one more example of how the meanings of the words have been corrupted and now we are basing our political system on misunderstandings.
I have had discussions with a lot of people who say that the ‘welfare clause’ in the Constitution authorizes the federal government to do what they do. That they can continue to spend any amount of money on any program they choose to invent as long as it is intended to ‘help’ somebody.
I disagree. I disagree vehemently!! This article has some direct quotes from Benjamin Franklin and James Madison proving that my interpretation of the word welfare in the Constitution is the correct one and anyone who uses that term to justify ANY of the welfare (for rich or poor) today is just plain WRONG!