General Welfare Does NOT Mean a Welfare State Run by Liberals! R_1027
Tavish
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Subject: General Welfare Does NOT Mean a Welfare State Run by Liberals!
Date: 1997/05/30
General Welfare- The meaning of and historical meaning thereof:
Articles Of Confederation, Harvard Classics (1910), Vol.43, Pg.169
ARTICLE III. The said States hereby severally enter into a
firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defence,
the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general
welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all
force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them,
on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence
whatever.
Articles Of Confederation, Harvard Classics (1910), Vol.43, Pg.171
ARTICLE VIII. All charges of war, and all other expenses
that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare,
and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be
defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the
several States, in proportion to the value of all land within each
State, granted to or surveyed for any person, as such land and the
buildings and improvements thereon shall be estimated according
to such mode as the United States in Congress assembled, shall from
time to time direct and appoint.
Articles Of Confederation, Harvard Classics (1910), Vol.43, Pg.174
The United States in Congress assembled shall never engage
in a war, nor grant letters of marque and reprisal in time of peace,
nor enter into any treaties or alliances, nor coin money, nor
regulate the value thereof, nor ascertain the sums and expenses
necessary for the defence and welfare of the United States....
THE CONSTITUTION
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a
more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility,
provide for 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.
The Constitution, Article I, Section 8
Section 8. 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....
Other historical writings show America was not conceived with the
welfare state in mind.
Benjamin Franklin, American Characteristics, America, Vol.4,
Pg.70 - Pg.71
....every one will enjoy securely the profits of his
industry. But if he does not bring a fortune with him, he must
work and be industrious to live. One or two years' residence give
him all the rights of a citizen; but the Government does not at
present, whatever it may have done in former times, hire people
to become settlers, by paying their passages, giving land,
utensils, stock, or any other kind of emolument whatsoever.
In short, America is the land of labor, and by no means what the
English call Lubberland, and the French Pays de Cocagne, where
the streets are said to be paved with half-peck loaves, the houses
tiled with pancakes, and where the fowls fly about ready roasted,
crying, "Come eat me!" . . .
Historical Almanac of the U.S. Senate, Pg.160
The United States was suffering a terrible depression
in 1894, and more than two million unemployed men wandered the
countryside in search of work. The federal government disclaimed
any responsibility for the unemployed, but the crisis was too
severe for local governments and private charities to handle.
In Ohio, affluent businessman Jacob Coxey proposed that the
federal government end the depression by putting unemployed men
to work building public roads. Sympathetic congressmen introduced
a "Good Roads bill," but Congress refused to act.
George Bancroft, History of the United States, Vol.6, Pg.170
In the council of revision strong but not successful
objections were raised. Livingston, the chancellor, set forth
that a scarcity of money can be remedied only by industry and
economy, not by laws that foster idleness and dissipation; that
the bill, under the appearance of relief, would add to the
distress of the debtor; that it at the same instant solicited
and destroyed credit; that it would cause the taxes and debts of
the state to the United States to be paid in paper.
History of the American People, Vol.5, Pg.18 - Pg.20
....The country filled with vagrants, looking for
pleasure and gratuitous fortune. Idleness bred want, as always,
and the vagrants turned thieves or importunate beggars. The tasks
of ordinary labor stood untouched; the idlers grew insolent,
dangerous; nights went anxiously by, for fear of riot and
incendiary fire. It was imperatively necessary that something
should be done, if only to bring order again and make the streets
of the towns and the highways of the country-sides safe to those
who went about their tasks.
E. Benjamin Andrews on the Evils of Reconstruction,
Great Epochs, Vol.9, Pg.68
In their days of serfdom the negroes' besetting sin had
been thievery. Now that the opportunities for this were multiplied,
the fear of punishment gone, and many a carpet-bagger at hand to
encourage it, the prevalence of public and private stealing was
not strange. Larceny was nearly universal, burglary painfully
common. At night watch had to be kept over property with dogs
and guns. It was part, or at least an effect, of the carpet-bag
policy to aggravate race jealousies and sectional misunderstandings.
The duello, still good form all over the South, induced disregard
of law and of human life. . . .
Roosevelt, On American Motherhood, The World's Famous
Orations, Vol.3, Pg.259
....such a creature merits contempt as hearty as any
visited upon the soldier who runs away in battle, or upon the man
who refuses to work for the support of those dependent upon him,
and who tho able-bodied is yet content to eat in idleness the bread
which others provide.
George Bancroft, History of the United States, Vol.1, Pg.96
After the long delayed departure of the ships, the first
care of Smith was to obtain supplies for the colony from the
Indians. In the spring of 1610 he introduced the culture of maize,
which was taught by two savages, and thirty or forty acres were
"digged and planted." Authority was employed to enforce industry;
he who would not work might not eat, and six hours in the day were
spent in toil. The gentlemen learned the use of the axe, and became
excellent wood-cutters. Jamestown assumed the appearance of a
regular place of abode. It is worthy of remembrance that Smith
proposed to plant a town near the falls of the river, where the
city of Richmond now stands. Eight months of good order under his
rule gave to the colony a period of peace and industry; of order
and health.
History of the American Nation, Vol.1, Pg.131
....Smith explored the harbors and rivers of Chesapeake
bay... On his return, he was, for the first time, formally elected
President of the Council. Industry was now more wisely directed;
but in the autumn came another company of idle and useless
emigrants. Smith, indignant that his efforts to improve the colony
should thus be frustrated, wrote to the council to send him but a
few husbandmen and mechanics, and "diggers up of trees' roots,"
rather than a thousand such men as had been sent. The complaint
was just. During two years they had not brought under cultivation
more than forty acres of land, while the number of able-bodied men
was more than two hundred. The energetic arm of Smith was soon felt.
The first law he made and enforced was, that "He who would not work
should not eat;" the second, that "Each man for six days in the week
should work six hours each day."
From the Bible:
2 Thessalonians 3: 8,10,12,14 says: "...nor did we eat food from anyone
free. To the contrary, by labor and toil night and day we were working
so as not to impose an expensive burden upon any of you. In fact, also,
when we were with you, we used to give you this order: "If anyone does
not want to work, neither let him eat." To such persons we give the
order and exhortation in [the] Lord Jesus Christ that by working with
quietness they should eat food they themselves earn. But if anyone is
not obedient to our word through this letter, keep this one marked, stop
associating with him that he might be ashamed." The words of the Apostle
Paul. Would Paul bless our current welfare state?
* * * * * * FINIS * * * * * *
Do you believe the founders of this nation had as its intent to
form a Great Society based on a welfare state; where government would
take from the producers and give a working man's fruits to the
willfully unproductive? The Liberal Democrats state that to provide
for the general welfare means to do as they have been doing- along
with buying votes with goods that are not their own! How many liberal
ideas are expressed in the above documents of our forefathers? The
way liberals act in Congress these days- if around during these periods
of time I just wonder if they would have called our forefathers:
"bigots, hatemongers, mean spirited, anti-Semites" or whatever term
is used against those that oppose a communistic, socialistic,
cradle to grave nanny state. People wake up learn your American
heritage. We can once again have the "land of the Pilgrim's pride".
Our forefathers are cursed when we allow communistic and socialist
anti-American trolls influence our destiny. This country was not
built on liberal ideas and principles nor is it founded on any
Semite notion. It was founded on Anglo ideas!
Please keep and reread this document nightly until you fully
appreciate the ideas and dreams it represents. As I submit this
there are people actively engaged at turning our land of the
"Pilgrim's pride" into just another "socialist utopia."
See it and believe it!
Doc Tavish aka Tavish The True
Reference Material taken from:
The Bible - New World Translation
& The CD Sourcebook of American History by
Candlelight Publishing
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