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To: tpaine
"Yep, just as I predicted, you don't even try a logical rebuttal of the whole statement, you pretend that the latter portion doesn't exist, and ignore that our government is acting unconstitutionaly in funding such programs.
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Sorry, but foreign aid is not unconstitutional in any way. We've been doing it for a long, long time. Once the Congress appropriates the funds for such expenditures, they're perfectly constitutional. Find me a place in the Constitution which prohibits the US from appropriating funds for foreign aid. I didn't address this because it doesn't warrant addressing.
286 posted on 01/29/2003 2:24:32 PM PST by MineralMan
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To: MineralMan
"Yep, just as I predicted, you don't even try a logical rebuttal of the whole statement, you pretend that the latter portion doesn't exist, and ignore that our government is acting unconstitutionaly in funding such programs.

" Sorry, but foreign aid is not unconstitutional in any way. We've been doing it for a long, long time. Once the Congress appropriates the funds for such expenditures, they're perfectly constitutional. Find me a place in the Constitution which prohibits the US from appropriating funds for foreign aid.

Sorry, I couldn't find ANY reference to foreign aid in a quick search. Where do you find such 'aid' authorised?

I didn't address this because it doesn't warrant addressing.

A likely story.

289 posted on 01/29/2003 2:49:14 PM PST by tpaine
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To: MineralMan
[Amendment X]

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Find me a place in the Constitution which PERMITS foreign aid. If it's not there, it's NOT Constitutional.

448 posted on 02/14/2003 9:31:22 PM PST by dcwusmc ("The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself.")
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