GenSen, I know what you're doing, but I cannot accept the premise that ANY of what the liberals are trying to do is in line with the constitution.
When faced with a Bill before Congress to provide for subsidies for cod fishermen, James Madison had the following to say on the subject;
He also said the following;
In 1794 when a Bill was presented before Congress for the relief of French refugees from San Domingo, Madison rose and said;
Then there's always Federalist 41 in which he clearly stated that "the general welfare" clause was neither a statement of ends nor a substantive grant of power, but of course they'll ignore that since it's contrary to their aims and ends.
Yes, the liberals of today are still stooping to deliberate misconstructions in order to foist their Socialist plans on America, just as was warned against over 200 years ago, and which was specifically denied them in the Constitution, but of course, the modern liberal doesn't even bother to pay lip service to that dusty old document, they merely usurp it at their will on the one hand, while decrying any invented "unconstitutional" limitation on the other.
In 1827, when an appropriations Bill of $10,000 for the widow of a Naval officer was presented before Congress, none other than Davy Crockett rose before that body and said the following;
What of the 1854 provision for the mentally ill that President Pierce vetoed, along with the following objection?
No, our entire national history, from the ratification of the Constitution until that most infamous of all US Presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt, ALL realized that there was no place in the Constitution that authorized the Congress to tax and spend for ANY social spending programs, as such was, by the 9th and 10th Amendments to the constitution, left to the states and to the people respectively.
