If the general welfare clause means what they say it means then there are no checks on the power of government. I wonder what they think the founding fathers had in mind when they wrote the constitution...
#10 provides the list of Enumerated Powers.
So, the question is this: Why would there be a list of Enumerated Powers if the Constitutional authors had intended for “General Welfare” to apply to any want or desire of Congress?
Obviously not, but fuzzy SCOTUS rulings have so diluted the meaning that we are stuck until a clarifying ammendment is passed — and that opens the demon of noxious ammendments also included.