The preamble of the Constitution includes the statement, "promote the general Welfare." Abandoning the people in their time of need is not promoting their general welfare in way, shape, or form.
Idiocy like this makes me want to tear my hair out in fistfuls. Is this the common, accepted way of teaching and understanding the Constitution nowadays? If it is, I may as well just give up on humanity. We are too stupid to live.
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Never in my dreams, not even when I was a child learning about the Constitution, would I have read that bit and think, "Oh! They're talking about government programs!" Never. Not once. (Especially, as you mentioned, there WERE no such things at that time, not the way we have them today!)
When did the word welfare cease to mean "well being" and come to mean "government handouts"? I must've been out sick that entire grade.
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Idiocy like this makes me want to tear my hair out in fistfuls. Is this the common, accepted way of teaching and understanding the Constitution nowadays? If it is, I may as well just give up on humanity. We are too stupid to live.
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Never in my dreams, not even when I was a child learning about the Constitution, would I have read that bit and think, "Oh! They're talking about government programs!" Never. Not once. (Especially, as you mentioned, there WERE no such things at that time, not the way we have them today!)
When did the word welfare cease to mean "well being" and come to mean "government handouts"? I must've been out sick that entire grade.
/rant