Bob Ackley -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 BA> Replying to a message of Mimi Gallandt to Bob Ackley:

 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
 BA>>> politicians discovered they could buy peoples' votes with their own
 BA>>> money.

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

 BA> 'Welfare' as they knew it in 1789 and 'welfare' as we know it today have
 BA> totally
 BA> different meanings.  Note also that the preamble to the US Constitution
 BA> - and FTM
 BA> the preamble to any law - is without legal force or effect; a preamble
 BA> is merely a
 BA> statement of what the body of the document is intended to accomplish.

Chill, Bob, did you fail to see the smiley indicating I was giving you
static? Should I no longer joke around with you?

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