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To: Yeti
"So, "The overall well-being of the nation as a whole." Like I said: interstate highways, meteorological services, etc ..." - Yeti

Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, etc... OK, you've just agreed with me by insisting on using the definition that you posted above, after all, your definition fails to differentiate between why meterological services would be granted by the "general welfare" clause but that Medicaid would not...

52 posted on 04/06/2003 7:12:18 PM PDT by Southack (Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack
You seem to have a selective reading disorder.

In an earlier post I specifically differentiated between the general well-being of the nation as a whole and the precise well-being of a specific individual citizen.

It's plain that you are choosing to be intentionally obtuse. And you are doing so because confessing that you understand what I have said does not suit your ulterior motive, which is to persuade ignorant people that there is a constitutional basis for a "welfare state."

The first fallacy you employ is amphiboly. You have detached the word "welfare" from the meaning it had when the document was written, and attempted to attach to it the meaning that has been assigned it by popular culture in the last 30 years.

In this way, you hope to surreptitiously insert a new meaning into the old document.

An example of this error might be as follows:

In past times, the word "faggot" meant a bundle of kindling. Nowadays it is used as an epithet for homosexuals. Using your technique, a gay historical revisionist might point to a passage in a work of literature that makes reference to getting "a faggot to burn" as evidence of past homosexual oppression.

Similarly, the word "fag" used to mean a cigarette in Britain. A competing gay historical revisionist might point to another passage in which a couple of british military guys "step outside to share a fag" as proof that homosexuality was common and accepted among the British military.

Likewise yourself and "welfare." This in addition to your problems with "general" and "the United States" as opposed to "the People," which is how the people are referenced elsewhere in the document.

64 posted on 04/06/2003 7:48:23 PM PDT by Yeti
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