[Luis Gonzalez]

"I want to see a definition of what "general" welfare meant in the constitution."

Dig up Tom Jefferson and ask him, until then, the definition for general welfare is quite clear, and it includes helping the elderly of the nation from being forced into becoming charity cases, victims of circumstances beyond their control.

[little jeremiah]

I think this quote are appropriate here:

"[T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general
government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore...never to see
all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn
from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought
and sold at market." --Thomas Jefferson