To: Black Agnes
"Funny how we survived & read that very same constitution with those very same words for ~200 years without ANY welfare state."
200 years? Nonsense. The U.S. has given out soldiers' pensions since at least 1865, and possibly even prior to that date.
22 posted on
04/06/2003 4:11:12 PM PDT by
Southack
(Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Southack
As of 1904, veteran pensions (aka welfare for Blue vets) constituted the largest single item in the Federal budget.
30 posted on
04/06/2003 4:50:20 PM PDT by
nicollo
To: Southack
"General Welfare" != 'Stealing my money to buy the votes of the slacker family next door'.
Or do you equate the slacker mentality with that of men/women who've served in our armed forces honorably & possibly been wounded in said service?
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