"Just the welfare(meaning well-being) of the nation, not "welfare" as recently redefined to mean money for poor people. The word didn't even have that meaning when the document was composed."
You seem to be getting pretty wordy, but no, you still haven't described the *precise* definition/power that you personally ascribe to the legal, written, codified "general welfare" clause in our Constitution.
Perhaps in your own mind you've never yet given that clause any meaning, one wonders (in which case, you would sadly be illegally interpreting our Constitution contrary to its design)...
But, I'm willing to give you one more chance to try to *specifiy* the precise definition that you give that clause, at least, if you aren't going to get all wordy and dodgy on me.
I'll be waiting...
OK Southack, just to shut you up:
general -- overall, broad
welfare -- well-being, benefit
United States -- The nation as abstracted from the government or the people, the nation as a whole.
So, "The overall well-being of the nation as a whole."
Like I said: interstate highways, meteorological services, etc ...
The meaning is clear on the face of it, confusion only occurs when it is introduced by the artifice of frauds such as yourself.