This'n'That; March Twenty-Fifth #1 (US Constitution-1,8)

"...General Welfare" Did Not Mean WelfareRAT!
    When the democRATs (owe-bamacRATs, socialists, fascists, et al) need another financial vehicle with which to buy more converts to socialism, they often quote from the Constitution, Article #1, Section 8:

Section 8.
     The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

1. To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
2. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
3. To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
4. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
5. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
6. To establish post offices and post roads;
7. To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
8. To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
9. To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
10. To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
11. To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
12. To provide and maintain a navy;
13. To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
14. To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
15. To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
16. To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;--And
17. To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.

The dispute over The General Welfare clause arises from two distinct disagreements: 

• James Madison advocated for ratification of the Constitution with a narrow wording of The General Welfare clause.  The clause is not a grant of power, but a statement of purpose qualifying the power to tax.
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• Alexander Hamilton on the other hand--and only after the Constitution had been ratified--advocated for a broader interpretation to view spending as an enumerated power the Congress could independently exercise as to benefit 'the general welfare,' i.e., assist in agricultural or educational needs-providing the spending is general in nature and does not favor any specific section of the country.

    Several Supreme Court cases have supported Hamiltonian liberal, socialist views on spending for "The General Welfare."  United States v. Butler  (1936) reversed a narrow view upheld by the Supreme Court in it's 1922 holding in  Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co.   
    The widely held view among conservatives (69% of republicRATs; 52% of unaffiliated voters) is that the federal government will do too much (spending) in response to America's economic problems.  A widely held (albeit destructive) view among owe-bama socialists is that unemployment compensation has a positive effect on the overall economy.
    The current regime continues to ignore or understate inflation increases.  The important items in the average budget: food, shelter, utilities, transportation have all felt recent upward inflation pressures.  The congress and the executive branch can not continue to spend like there's no end to 'the golden goose!'  Eventually, the American middle and upper classes will be 'taxed out of existence.'  Federal discreationary spending must be brought under control-and soon!  This $2 billion-a-week bullshit does nothing but make a mockery of efforts to institute meaningful cuts in federal spending.  The republicRATs were given a mandate by the Tea Party movement to enact budget cuts with a chainsaw-not a paring knife!!  Entitlement (non-discretionary) spending must be pared at the same percentage that applies to discretionary spending cuts.
    If a "one world government" is the ultimate goal, one only has to look to the European Union to see the fallacy in this concept.  Said union is holding by a thread, at best.  At worst-an ill advised marriage of unequals!!  Said union has done little but add another layer of taxation to a collection of already over-taxed nations.
    We shall see what we shall see!
Til Nex'Time....