BK>>>  In the American political lexicon welfare has *ALWAYS* been a
 BK>>>  dirty word.

 BA>> Not *always*, only for a bit over half a century.  That's when
politicians
 BA>> discovered they could buy peoples' votes with their own money.

 MG> As a matter of fact it was pleasant enough nearly 230 years
 MG> ago when the Founding Fathers stuck in it the preamble to
 MG> the Constitution of the United States of America.  :)

 Those were statesmen, the politicians never seem to have
 accepted it. I should have said in the right wing political
 lexicon. Welfare itself has existed in this country since before
 there was a 'this country'. And the right wingers have long
 attacked the "social welfare" spending, even though that covers
 everything from federal law enforcement to the dept of energy,
 who do maintain our nuclear weapons research. And much of it is
 *EXPLICITLY* authorized in the constitution, and the rest is a
 reasonable interpretation.

 Honest debate is not in the right wing lexicon.

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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