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To: Lorianne
The preamble says "promote the general welfare", but that's only one purpose it lists. The others are: to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.

But it also sets up a system of strict limits upon how the government may go about promoting, establishing, insuring, providing, and securing, those things.

Very little of what the Obama adminstration is doing fits inside those limits.

Notice too that the only one of those actions that is not a direct action upon its object, is "promote". IOW, the Constitution was to set in place a system that would promote the general welfare, not provide, secure or insure it. Anyway, the Obamites actions are historicaly proven to harm the General Welfare, not promote it.

16 posted on 08/03/2009 4:29:17 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato
"Very little of what the Obama adminstration is doing fits inside those limits."

I think you mean nothing.
19 posted on 08/03/2009 4:37:23 PM PDT by shibumi (" ..... then we will fight in the shade.")
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