mrstickball said:
richardhutnik said:
TheRealMafoo said:
numonex said:
The Defense Budget spending needs to be drastically reduced. Slash the Defense spending and bring the troops back. Trillions of tax payers money has been wasted on two wars in the Middle East. Pension funds have been raided to fund these Middle East wars. Still chasing ghosts in the desert for almost 10 years and will continue on forever.
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I agree we need to end the wars and come home, and we need to close our bases all over the world. But while we spend way to much on the military, at least it's what we are suposed to spend federal dollars on.
The federal governments job it to protect the US from foreign countries. It's not the responsibility of the federal government to make sure the people eat. Nothing in our founding documents said anything about taking care of anyone.
Taking care of people is a relatively new concept (last 100 years). When we fall, and one day we will fall, historians are going to look back and see why, and they will equate the beginning of the end, to the day we chose to provide for our citizens.
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This is the preamble to the Constitution:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,[1] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
While you can say the government has no role to insure that people are able to eat, I believe the preamble, and "promote the general Welfare" says something about making sure the citizens don't starve. There is a problem that happens when people feel they can't survive, get food to eat, and have a chance to "secure the Blessings of Liberty" for themselves and future generations. Starving people refuse to care about anything, and the well being of the country. Liberty without blessings will end up not really being liberty at all.
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...So how many welfare programs did Washington, Adams, Jefferson or any of the other founders that wrote the preamble build when they were president?
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If there is mass starvation in the United States, due to people not having jobs, and being unable to feed themselves, would you say that the fruits of liberty are being shared? The founders lived during a time when most people worked ojn farms, and there was plenty of land to go around. America is no longer an agriculturally based economy.
