In your scheme, where do people fall who contract a disease that requires lifetime expensive medicine? Before they got their disease, was there insurance they could buy that would cover their long term needs? Will the insurance company be permitted to drop such people when the insurer realizes that it's losing money on that customer?
Men's underwear? I counted at least 3 brands a month ago, and the Hanes stuff was below $2 each in packages of 8.
Women's underwear? A dozen brands, at least.
Except for O'Reilly, people don't usually buy books based on brand (publisher's name), but that doesn't mean the books that Amazon sells aren't branded products.
The general welfare clause occurs in the preamble to the Constitution, and as such only a few phrases precede it.
James Madison, more than any other person the author of the US Constitution, wrote substantially the same thing you did.
The preamble should be understood as a statement of purpose, giving context and adding meaning to the law that follows; the preamble should not be understood as a law in and of itself.
The phrase "general welfare" also occurs in the first paragraph of Article 1, Section 8, Powers of Congress:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
Note that this ends with a semicolon. It serves as an introduction to the next several lines, which lines specify the only powers of Congress, and thus the powers which Congress may use to promote the general welfare.
Note also that the full phrase is "general Welfare of the United States", meaning the welfare of the country as a whole, although perhaps it could be stretched to mean the welfare of each and every state. It clearly does not apply to units smaller than states, not counties nor cities nor individuals.
There is no word "despiraty", and if there were it would mean "the condition of having had the spirit removed," or perhaps "the condition of having pirates removed."
Nor is there "desperaty", which would mean "the condition of desperation".
Perhaps you mean "disparity", "the quality of being unlike or different".
Spelling matters. It helps give the impression that you know what you're writing about, that you care what you're writing about, that you want people to understand your meaning.
Your definition and misleading etimology does not cover all cases. A regulated clock has a specific mechanism, a regulator (usually a pendulum and associated parts) that can be adjusted to make timekeeping accurate. A "well regulated militia" has weapons kept in good working order that accurately shoot what they're pointed at.
Poor people definitely get fewer Ferraris and lobsters.
Actually, no. One of the favorite foods of EBT abusers is lobster. Once you're making enough to support yourself, lobster is an unjustifiable extravagance.
One way of getting cash used by extreme EBT abusers is to buy milk in high-deposit glass bottles, dump out the milk in the parking lot, and return the bottle for cash.
Another, used by small food store owners, is to have a dozen or more EBT cards, and stock their store with food acquired on EBT at a supermarket.
Government charity programs are an ecological niche for crooks and layabouts. Sometimes, they even help the deserving poor, but not often.
Colleges have computers for the use of students looking for jobs that require a college education. Most retailers and many, many businesses that don't require a college education will seriously consider anyone who walks in and has bathed recently.
the DOT, NHTSA and EPA keep those cars from killing us all
No exaggeration here, nope, none at all. Without those 3, the US would consist of nothing but a stretch of sand from the Pacific to the Atlantic,
and the DOE and FCC allows most electrical devices to work (rather than just the most powerful and/or interference-immune ones)
By golly, without those 2 my toaster wouldn't work!
The FCC has a valid function in the technical regulation of electromagnetic radiation. Not, for instance, censorship. Your claim is silly, even with the "most" qualifier.
DOE (I'm assuming you mean energy, not education or environment) properly deals with nuclear issues, but otherwise has mostly stepped beyond its proper bounds.
So, Chernobyl and Hanford are private industry failures?
An equivalent to the Interstate highway system would have developed anyway, without US government involvement. The Lincoln Highway was a private project. The Merritt (and Wilbur Cross) parkway in Connecticut was built by the state.
Electric grids are very heavily regulated and subject to public pressure. Improvements and maintenance aren't possible if regulators won't allow enough profit to make an upgrade program possible.
In the 1950s and 1960s AT&T and ITT wanted to provide improved telephone technology and service, which would have cost more. They were repeatedly denied permission to provide higher cost services. Of course, 20 years later they were being criticized for moving too slowly and suppressing new technology.
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I've read that this goes back to the AMA, which refuses to accredit more college programs.
Some good thoughts there
In your scheme, where do people fall who contract a disease that requires lifetime expensive medicine? Before they got their disease, was there insurance they could buy that would cover their long term needs? Will the insurance company be permitted to drop such people when the insurer realizes that it's losing money on that customer?
Get a clue. If you pass out while working somewhere, that's your body telling you that you're not fit to work there.
Men's underwear? I counted at least 3 brands a month ago, and the Hanes stuff was below $2 each in packages of 8.
Women's underwear? A dozen brands, at least.
The average Jew is smarter than the average white, and the average Chinese is smarter than both and also more polite. They're both superior to you.
Don't try to lay your guilt trip on me.
Retail is bad. Cashiers can't earn a living wage at premier places like Lord & Taylor, either. Singling out WalMart is at best inaccurate.
Shoes can be resoled, although it's not necessarily a good idea.
Except for O'Reilly, people don't usually buy books based on brand (publisher's name), but that doesn't mean the books that Amazon sells aren't branded products.
More nearly a century than 15 years.
The general welfare clause occurs in the preamble to the Constitution, and as such only a few phrases precede it.
James Madison, more than any other person the author of the US Constitution, wrote substantially the same thing you did.
The preamble should be understood as a statement of purpose, giving context and adding meaning to the law that follows; the preamble should not be understood as a law in and of itself.
The phrase "general welfare" also occurs in the first paragraph of Article 1, Section 8, Powers of Congress:
Note that this ends with a semicolon. It serves as an introduction to the next several lines, which lines specify the only powers of Congress, and thus the powers which Congress may use to promote the general welfare. Note also that the full phrase is "general Welfare of the United States", meaning the welfare of the country as a whole, although perhaps it could be stretched to mean the welfare of each and every state. It clearly does not apply to units smaller than states, not counties nor cities nor individuals.
There is no word "despiraty", and if there were it would mean "the condition of having had the spirit removed," or perhaps "the condition of having pirates removed."
Nor is there "desperaty", which would mean "the condition of desperation".
Perhaps you mean "disparity", "the quality of being unlike or different".
Spelling matters. It helps give the impression that you know what you're writing about, that you care what you're writing about, that you want people to understand your meaning.
So specific individuals are allowed to raise armies and lay taxes?
The Oxford Universal Dictionary (1955, abridged version of The Oxford English Dictionary)
Regulator, definition 4:
Something which regulates; a regulating principle or power 1766
Emphasis added.
Regulate, definition 2:
To adjust, in respect to time, quantity, etc. with reference to some standard or purpose....1662
Emphasis added.
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Your point stands, but it's not as strong as you seem to think it is.
Not in the Second Amendment.
Your definition and misleading etimology does not cover all cases. A regulated clock has a specific mechanism, a regulator (usually a pendulum and associated parts) that can be adjusted to make timekeeping accurate. A "well regulated militia" has weapons kept in good working order that accurately shoot what they're pointed at.
Phone and cell phone are not the same thing.
Actually, no. One of the favorite foods of EBT abusers is lobster. Once you're making enough to support yourself, lobster is an unjustifiable extravagance.
To the extent that you live off taxpayer-provided benefits, you are acting as a slave owner.
You do not have a right to my labor, my property, my time, my mind, or my life.
One way of getting cash used by extreme EBT abusers is to buy milk in high-deposit glass bottles, dump out the milk in the parking lot, and return the bottle for cash.
Another, used by small food store owners, is to have a dozen or more EBT cards, and stock their store with food acquired on EBT at a supermarket.
Government charity programs are an ecological niche for crooks and layabouts. Sometimes, they even help the deserving poor, but not often.
That depends on specific local conditions. Newcomers can put up microwave links in many places. Existing telcos can string fiber on existing poles.
Colleges have computers for the use of students looking for jobs that require a college education. Most retailers and many, many businesses that don't require a college education will seriously consider anyone who walks in and has bathed recently.
Walk your poor neighbor over to a public library. He now has not only free internet, but free use of a computer.
Sure, it's inconvenient and not available to absolutely everyone. But for most poor people, if they seriously need internet, it's there.
No exaggeration here, nope, none at all. Without those 3, the US would consist of nothing but a stretch of sand from the Pacific to the Atlantic,
By golly, without those 2 my toaster wouldn't work!
The FCC has a valid function in the technical regulation of electromagnetic radiation. Not, for instance, censorship. Your claim is silly, even with the "most" qualifier.
DOE (I'm assuming you mean energy, not education or environment) properly deals with nuclear issues, but otherwise has mostly stepped beyond its proper bounds.
So, Chernobyl and Hanford are private industry failures?
An equivalent to the Interstate highway system would have developed anyway, without US government involvement. The Lincoln Highway was a private project. The Merritt (and Wilbur Cross) parkway in Connecticut was built by the state.
Electric grids are very heavily regulated and subject to public pressure. Improvements and maintenance aren't possible if regulators won't allow enough profit to make an upgrade program possible.
In the 1950s and 1960s AT&T and ITT wanted to provide improved telephone technology and service, which would have cost more. They were repeatedly denied permission to provide higher cost services. Of course, 20 years later they were being criticized for moving too slowly and suppressing new technology.