The problem is the current understanding and implementation of the “general welfare” clause. Somehow, it come to be interpreted that the federal government can use it as a tool to take control of virtually everything that goes on in the country. I hold that we need to actually go back and think about what the founders would have meant by “the general welfare”. I maintain that, given our founding documents and what they were escaping from in terms of the tyranny of England, their view of the general welfare had primarily to do with the preservation of LIBERTY, not redistribution of wealth, and certainly not collectivist dreams such as mandatory, socialized medicine.