Many on the Right miss the noble beauty of what our Founding Fathers established when they wrote the Constitution. We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Having just survived Shay's Rebellion, they knew how important it was to promote the general welfare of all of our citizens if we were to distinguish ourselves from the tyrants of the present and the past. It is not muddle-headed philanthrapy to provide social programs to protect those in a society who cannot care for themselves. It is good policy to insure domestic tranquility. The sad rallying cry of the Republican Party right now is a solid committment to preventing Democrats from raising taxes on the billionaires while screaming to cut safety net programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. History is packed with example, after bloody example, of societies which have had a small group who controlled all wealth while the masses were oppressed. Praise God, that in the United...
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Only 23% of high school students in Oklahoma could name the 1st President & now Glenn Beck thinks that the part of the Constitution that allowed Congress to tax the importation was meant to charge immigrants for moving to this country. "If a... nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
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