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I object to the notion that those are the only alternatives. Yes, in almost every case, we would all be better off if Congress would simply go home and watch daytime TV, rather than try to "fix problems." It only makes more problems. MY preference would be a Congress that actually worked, within the framework of the Constitution, to create "the greatest good for the greatest number," or some similar metric. Our problem at the moment is that they seem to not only believe they must solve every problem for everybody, or even that they have the unlimited authority to do so, but the unbridled conceit that they CAN.
And now, of course, gridlock is being eliminated in the worst possible way, by having King Barack make all the decisions.
"the greatest good for the greatest number"
You are not going to start supporting wealth equalization next are you???
Ill-chosen words, if that is your interpretation. I am using it in the same sense as the Framers used the phrase "general welfare." They meant that which specifically helped everyone, though possibly to a different degree because people are different. The minute we start saying that one person gets unequal treatment (either being taken from or given to), we violate the GENERAL welfare clause of the Constitution. Davy Crockett was right.
They meant that which specifically helped everyone
If they met that, how could they countenance slavery?
--Hiram
Easily. Slaves were not "citizens" at the time. And only 3/5 of a person for census purposes.
And besides, that was put into the Constitution as its purpose, not as a description of the current situation.
I see no reference to citizenship in the preamble of the constitution. I see precious few references to citizenship anywhere in the constitution.
--Hiram
Point being that the "general welfare" applied only to those that the Constitution covered, not their livestock. I'm not even sure it applied to women.
I guess my point was that the Liberals seem to be correct in that the current system does seem to be doing the greatest good for maybe half the population at best...
I am not a big fan of their root causes or proposed solutions, however I am not willing to deny that there is a problem.
Is there a problem, really? Or has the welfare state CREATED the problem they now purport to solve? Some studies show that without the massive federal interference in the economy-- the redistribution and regulation-- we might all be making more without it.
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/06/federal-regulations-have-lowered-gdp-growth-by-2-per-year/
AEI Fed Regs Lower Growth
I have no doubt that regulations and government programs hinder growth. I mean China had/have few regulations, so they grew and are growing very very fast.
Unfortunately they had/have few regulations, so they have the ultra rich, ultra poor, polluted air, polluted water, etc. Probably a lot like our country during the Industrial revolution.
By the way, the AEI piece seems very suspect since we are already the worlds largest economy. Who in the world do they think we would have been trading with a $53.9 Trillion dollar GDP?
As America grows in wealth, it gets shared with those who provide us goods and services and the whole world economy would have been bigger and stronger. By depleting our wealth at home to "help the poor," we have deprived the poor here and in the rest of the world of opportunities to escape their poverty.
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