"Shawn Hirn" wrote in message
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In article , "Chris"
wrote:

"Tim May" wrote in message
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In article .com,
Too_Many_Tools wrote:

I agree with the general discussion but...

I have seen it mentioned several places that only 40% of the
population
had flood insurance.

Now if you have 60% of the population that can't afford to rebuild
because of losses, what do you think the politicians will do?

Also remember that over one million people are homeless at this time.

That is a significant number of votes.


And that is precisely why we are a nation of laws, not of pimping for
votes.

Any politician who votes to give money freely to those who do not have
a legal claim to it should be assassinated.

--Tim May

Tim,

Well said!!!

If I remember correctly when we had a Constitution, the federal
government
was set up to protect the US from foreign interests. Not to provide a
roof
over our head and food to those who did not feel like providing
ourselves.

Your memory is a bit incomplete. The major goal by ratifying the
Constitution was to keep government out of the private lives of
individuals. Protection from foreign governments was part of it.
If the founding fathers were opposed to welfare type assistance, I
presume they would have said so in the Constitution and put some limits
on government there, but they didn't as far as I can tell, nor has any
congress since than or president put forth an amendment to do that.

Too funny!
The problem is that it was unthinkable at the time to Constitution was drawn
up, that people would want handouts from the Government for their general
welfare. People who did not care for themselves or just did not feel like
providing for themselves, were very few and far in-between at that time.
You fail to read "general welfare". By no stretch of the means does that
mean the government will enable all the people who just do not feel like
providing for themselves!

By your reasoning Congress could pile up all the gold and dollars in the US
and bury it out in the sea. For had our founding fathers not wanted that,
it would of been in the Constitution . LOL

Why do I always get the feeling that welfare supports are always benefiting
from it somehow?

The rest of your post seems to be nothing more than childish insults sorry
to say.


--
Chris

If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it is in English, thank a
soldier. If it is in ebonics, thank your Congressman.