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Old 08-04-2009, 12:10 AM   #6
wellard
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Default Re: Exploiting Public Ignorance

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Sorry, that's what happens when I start posting before coffee...
No worries mate

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But don't you think the opinion of one of the men who helped write the document in the first place carries a *little* more weight as to what that document means?
Very much so, but you can not turn back time and for right or wrong what you have now has been honed and polished by people elected to govern.

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As you pointed out, the "provide for the general welfare" clause keeps getting "clarified" -- unfortunately, the people doing the clarifying seem to be figuring out new ways to increase government authority far beyond what the original authors intended. It's been going on for w-a-y too long for any one person to beat it in court.
And long may be that so in this case
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