ConservaDerrps
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Well there is your problem right there. It is not governments job to "help citizens". If you would people would take something called personal responsibility, you wouldn't need to ask government to unconstitutionally "help" you.
Hmm. What's weird is that when Thomas Jefferson, you've heard of him I think, wrote this little thing called the Declaration of Independence, he wrote this:
So let me translate that for you, since you clearly struggle with English comprehension. We are all given those rights, that's what the "endowed by their creator" line means. So we all have them. All of us. Then there's the "that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men..." That's it, right there. Our government does have a duty to secure those rights, for everyone.
Further, the Constitution IS a living document. I know you Conservatives hate hearing that phrase, but it's true. Anyone who remembers their 8th grade civics classes now that. If you want proof of its status, you only need to look at all the amendments. Essentially, the Constitution is whatever the fuck the SCOTUS says it is. If SCOTUS decides, for instance, that the ACA's mandate is Constitutional, guess what? The Constitution now says it's okay for the Feds to require every citizen to have health care.
It's how prohibition was both started and ended. "Strict Constitutionalism" is ironically a practice in undermining the very reason the document exists. It was NEVER meant to be rigid. It was NEVER meant to stay as just one complete document and never changed or revised. Because the founders knew, unlike Strict Constitutionalists, that they didn't have all the answers, and could not see into the future, so the left room for chance.
Basically, I'm telling you you're wrong. But then again, all you have to do is read the preamble of the Constitution to know just how fucking dead wrong you are.
...form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity
What exactly do you think insure domestic tranquility and promote general welfare means?
You really dont comprehend what you read do you ?
What do you mean, genius? That my interpretation of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution's preamble is incorrect? Why don't you rub a few of your precious brain cell together and tell me WHY I'm incorrect, Smart Buy McPoopymouth?