"Whoa! What about us disabled veterans?"
Stop with the red herring. You know as well as I do that 99% of people on the federal dole are not disabled vets, or disabled otherwise.
Obviously there would have to be a few exceptions for the genuinely disabled. Then of course the courrupt rats would try to find a way to get everyone who is accepting govt. assistance to be classified as "disabled" so that they could continue on with the same old same old.
The amendment would have to be carefully crafted and future proofed.
Of course this is an excercise in fantasy as this will never happen without some cataclysmic event as a precursor. Say like.. a civil war, and a scenario in which we win.
Nor do I “know” that 99% of the people receiving some form of federal government assistance are merely on the “dole”, and are not disabled otherwise. I do know, for a fact, that my wife who is 100% disabled by a series of strokes, is not considered eligible to receive disability from the Social Security Insurance that she paid into in thirty years of working. It is harder to get “on the dole” than you think, and many of the programs are actually run by the states, even when funded by the Federal government. The real ‘hogs slopping at the gubrment trough’ are the hordes of government employees required to administer these programs, who receive more in salary and benefits than they distribute in assistance payments. Often they outnumber the assisted beneficiaries as well. THEY are the patronage clients whose votes are sought and bought by the corrupt politicians. (I was one of these bureaucrats for 20 years.) And you will NEVER convince most of them that they are not working, and working for the public good.