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.

Money does equal caring in this instance since it is being used to feed hungry children. How does that make me materialistic? I'll gladly give it to the kids FOR FOOD rather than keep it for my own "materialistic" wants.

Originally posted by inforeal
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States are made up of flesh and blood human beings who often SUFFER through no fault of there own because the institutions in a modern society fail to provide them with opportunities.

That is the general welfare [the well being of the citizens of the states inside the country] the constitution in referring to, not only an entity like a state.

When the travails of modern institutional society don’t provide the ways and means of its citizens a good living, then it is the responsibility of the government (elected by the people for the people) to intervene and provide an atmosphere for the “GENERAL WELFARE” of all its citizens, particularly the most vulnerable.

Of course that’s if you have any empathy or compassion for your fellow citizens, something the writers of the constituion did.

Originally posted by inforeal
reply to post by macman

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You live in the society and benefit from what it provides, don’t you? Like police, firemen, roads, bridges.

Therefore if the government decides to use tax money sometimes to aid its citizens when the society’s institutions fail them, then that is in the interest of all.

Do you complain that the government takes your money and use it to kill people overseas? Yet you complain when they use it to feed starving children.

Are you a human being?

Originally posted by inforeal
reply to post by VAPatriot

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Preamble to 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.


Read the words: PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE


People who live in the same society as you do will affect you eventually--positively or negatively, therefore it is in the interest of the government and the people in this society to make sure as much as possible that people have a decent life.

GENERAL WELFARE!

Originally posted by Avenginggecko
GOP House To Cut Aid For Pregnant Women, Children While Spending $17 Billion More On Defense

Today, the Republican-controlled House will begin another onslaught on programs designed to help low-income and middle class families. The GOP quite literally wants to take food from the mouths of children, cutting $47 billion — or 10 percent — from domestic programs, to pay for more defense spending. In negotiations to reach a debt ceiling compromise, Republicans have declared defense cuts “off the table,” even though Pentagon spending is notoriously bloated and Secretary of Defense Gates and other top generals have admitted spending should be curtailed

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Essential programs on the chopping block include the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) and Commodity Supplemental Food programs, which both help low-income people get nutritional food. Hundreds of thousands of people will be cut from the programs if House Republicans get their way. WIC “provides healthy foods like milk, eggs and infant formula to about 9 million poor mothers and pregnant women and their children,” and would absorb a $868 million cut under the GOP bill, which falls $1.3 billion short of what’s needed to adequately fund the program with food prices on the rise.

There you go folks - the brilliance of GOP policy in action. We are in the worst economic downtown since the Great Depression and the GOP guts food programs for infants and pregnant women while increasing the budget so that the Pentagon can continue useless wars against manufactured enemies.

We have millions of underemployed and unemployed who depend on these programs as the only real means of getting their children nutritional food and not overprocessed, poisoned GMO crap that's peddled on the value menu of American fast food chains.

The GOP and Faux-Tea Party members scream and moan about the deficit and American debt and have the audacity to claim they are trying to get people back to work - and then gut the only programs that help them and their infant children to survive while they search for jobs or scrape together money to make ends meet.

This is the world of the modern GOP: Banana Republics where 98% of the population has nothing and no way to protect themselves from the next time the Corporatists rape the economy and steal more wealth from hard working lower and middle class citizens. Where endless tax cuts for the top 2% supposedly spur job growth that benefits everyone - but never really does (don't worry, it's just around the corner!)

All you have to do is stop feeding your family, make sure you can't afford health insurance and can never retire, let your roads and bridges turn into dirt, completely obliterate your educational system, and stop organizing to protect yourself from corporate overreach. Then those magical tax cuts will start raining down jobs and happiness on everyone!

Oh, we need to increase the deficit a little - sorry about all those cuts, but there are a lot of people on the other side of the world we need to bomb. Tell your kids we said hi!

This is what the welfare state looks like:

I'll let your eyes determine who exactly is the real welfare queen of the United States of America.