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.  :)

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

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