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To: Brilliant

Of course not.

Ever since their hero, FDR, declared that the “general welfare clause” allowed the federal government to do ANYTHING, leftists just don’t value the restrictions of the founders.

Here’s an interesting line of “logic” from that era:
If a man grows wheat for HIS OWN USE, he is affecting interstate commerce because if he didn’t grow it, he’d have to buy it on the open market. Therefore, private wheat production is subject to federal regulation.


13 posted on 08/31/2007 7:19:04 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: MrB
Ever since their hero, FDR, declared that the “general welfare clause” allowed the federal government to do ANYTHING

A Clinton/Clinton administration would be anything but for the general welfare.

43 posted on 08/31/2007 7:50:56 AM PDT by CaptRon (Pedicaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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