Yes, but which of them can expand entitlements more?
Shut up, Trump, you useless fool.
We hear ya, The Donald. Now STFU!
Out RINOing each other? Too bad no one will get impaled.
Trump BECLOWNS himself!
Here’s what we need: One joke calling out another joke.
Who cued up “send in the clowns?”
Huckabee is a jerk pretending to NOT be a jerk! Why can’t a super majority of voters see through Huckabee’s ongoing deceptions?
It really p!sses me off when someone refers to social security and medicare as an ‘entitlement’. How is it an entitlement when the government has stolen this money out of my paycheck for the last 40 years? If I’m lucky enough to live to the appointed age, I might get some of it back but I could have done more with the money if I had been allowed to keep it.
Trump, you are FIRED!
Although I question the motives of FDR era justices, these justices had evidently made the same mistake in interpreting the Constitution’s General Welfare Clause (GWC; 1.8.1) in deciding the constitutionality of Social Security that the 14th Congress had made in trying to use the GWC to justify its federal public works bill.
More specifically, President Madison, generally regarded as the father of the Constitution, had vetoed Congress’s bill to build roads and canals which Congress had used its “specific power” of the GWC to justify. But as Madison had put it, the problem with Congress using the GWC to justify building roads and canals is that the GWC as not intended to be interpreted as a delegation of specific power to Congress.
"To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to the established and consistent rules of interpretation, as rendering the special and careful enumeration of powers which follow the clause nugatory and improper. Such a view of the Constitution would have the effect of giving to Congress a general power of legislation instead of the defined and limited one hitherto understood to belong to them, the terms "common defense and general welfare" embracing every object and act within the purview of a legislative trust.” —President James Madison, Veto of federal public works bill, March 3, 1787.
So based on Madison’s words, the GWC is nothing more than an introductory clause for the clauses which follow it in Section 8 which do enumerate specific powers.
Also note that both the FDR era 74th Congress which wrongly passed the bill that established Social Security without constitutional justification, and the 111th Congress which likewise wrongly passed Obamacare without justification, had also wrongly ignored the option to lead Congress to propose appropriate amendments to Constitution to the states to establish such spending programs. And if the states had chosen to ratify such amendments then Congress would have the constitutional authority that it needs to establish these programs.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and a bunch of corrupt senators along with it.