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To: Graybeard58
"no constitutional authority "

Congress has authority to give money to other countries. We have from the very first congress.

Those who think they know better than the authors and ratifiers of the Constitution what is constitutional are self-professed fools by definition.

Of course many miss the point that Davy is not talking about aid to foreigners.

13 posted on 01/01/2005 5:03:40 AM PST by mrsmith
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To: mrsmith
what is constitutional are self-professed fools

Little harsh today arent we?

15 posted on 01/01/2005 5:21:14 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: mrsmith
Congress has authority to give money to other countries. We have from the very first congress. Those who think they know better than the authors and ratifiers of the Constitution what is constitutional are self-professed fools by definition. Of course many miss the point that Davy is not talking about aid to foreigners.

Here is your opportunity to rise above all of us "self-professed fools", quote Chapter and Verse from the Constitution where the fedguv is authorized to give my money to anyone. You seem to think this is a clear cut case, so it shouldn't take more than a minute or two of your time. Right? I'm anxious to sit down and STFU this morning so make your case. Blackbird.

17 posted on 01/01/2005 5:29:23 AM PST by BlackbirdSST
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To: mrsmith
Congress has authority to give money to other countries

I am looking at Article I. section 8 and cannot find that authority listed in the enumerated powers. A liberal interpretation of the "general Welfare" perhaps?

And don't bother to support your assertion with examples. I am starting to come around to the idea that the Constitution was not worth the paper it was written on from the git-go. Your defense only bolsters that opinion.

33 posted on 01/01/2005 6:20:12 AM PST by NMC EXP (Choose one: [a] party [b] principle.)
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