[MrLeRoy]

surely by now the Courts would have ruled those programs unconstitutional if they truly are.

Nope, the courts are have too much fun legislating from the bench.

It's odd that you lambast the WOSD as an "assault on our Constitution" yet don't realize that the Constitution provides no authority for federal 'social security' or welfare.

[mg39]

1. I disagree that issues of such magnitude would not have been settled by the Courts by now;

2. Nothing funny about my stance, though you've piqued my curiousity and I'll try to research the Constitutional issue myself. Again, when I look at social security and welfare, I don't see them eviscerating our bill of rights and resulting in citizens being shot to death in their own homes by the police, or having their cars taken by the State because Junior happened to have left a seed in it the other night, etc.