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To: Looking for Diogenes
Your ignorance of military history is noted. The Air Force started out as the Army Air Corps. It wasn't until 1947 that the National Security Act reorganized the Air Corps into the stand alone Air Force under the auspices of the Joint Chiefs.

And yes, every Social Security tax, Medicare tax theft, federal drug law, and gun restriction are as equally un-Constitutional. Your attempts at justification are exemplary proof of the dangers of "mission creep" and incrementalism.

89 posted on 12/17/2003 11:32:27 AM PST by Dead Corpse (For an Evil Super Genius, you aren't too bright are you?)
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To: Dead Corpse
Your ignorance of military history is noted. The Air Force started out as the Army Air Corps. It wasn't until 1947 that the National Security Act reorganized the Air Corps into the stand alone Air Force under the auspices of the Joint Chiefs.

I am well-aware of that aspect of the history of the U.S. military. The fact that the Air Force was once operated by the Army does not magically make it constitutional. The Department of Veterans Affairs operates hospitals and gives other services. If Congress decided to extend those same services to all citizens would that be constitutional just because it had originally been under a different department? Would Social Security have been OK if had originally only been available to soldiers and sailors?

Your attempts at justification are exemplary proof of the dangers of "mission creep" and incrementalism.

Wasn't the creation of the Air Force, never mentioned in the Constitution, a prime example of "mission creep" and "Incrementalism?"

93 posted on 12/18/2003 4:32:05 PM PST by Looking for Diogenes
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