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Economic recovery package before Congress"would provide massive fiscal stimulus."
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<blockquote data-quote="av8torntn" data-source="post: 482005" data-attributes="member: 8259"><p>If only these quotes were from our founding fathers we could use them as a guide on the Governments role in the redistribution of wealth. Oh wait these are the words of our founding fathers. </p><p></p><p></p><p>“To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”</p><p></p><p>“Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.”</p><p></p><p></p><p>“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” </p><p></p><p>“With respect to the two words ‘general welfare,’ I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.”</p><p></p><p></p><p>“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."</p><p></p><p></p><p>“[T]he government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.”</p><p></p><p></p><p>“If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions.”</p><p></p><p></p><p>“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety.”</p><p></p><p>“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="av8torntn, post: 482005, member: 8259"] If only these quotes were from our founding fathers we could use them as a guide on the Governments role in the redistribution of wealth. Oh wait these are the words of our founding fathers. “To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.” “Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.” “I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” “With respect to the two words ‘general welfare,’ I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.” “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." “[T]he government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.” “If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions.” “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety.” “The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." [/QUOTE]
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