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Posts from Michael Gilroy, Nashville

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Michael Gilroy, Nashville

BTW...Another Madison quote: "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." This was from the 1st session of the 3rd Congress when Madison led votes against granting assistance to French refugees from the Haitian revolution. So...it goes to prove that he did actually vote in line with the interpretation... as did most legislators until the early to mid 1900s.

Michael Gilroy, Nashville

Ditto on Article I, Section 8. The sorry excuse of the CARDOZO "stacked" court in the 1930s abandoned 147 years of this interpretation for a mere speculation as to the limits of the clause by SC Justice Joseph Story. This expanded the view of the clause to spending authority while completely ignoring the 9th and 10th amendment arguments (reserved rights to the people). Together w/the abuse of the 16th amendment, the now national, unconstitutional government now legislates under the auspice that it can take all of the money out of a state via taxes in order to coerce the respective states into compliance with unconstitutional and yes, tyranical, edicts.

Michael Gilroy, Nashville

Evading Social Responsibility? One's first social responsibility is to take care of one's self so that they are not a burden to society, and then to respect other people and their property. Only by going down the spiral of evading personal responsibility do we get to what the Anonymous poster referred to. Funny how people that fail to take care of themselves as part of their social responsibility are audacious enough to claim that the failure of others to give unearned money to them is irresponsible. This is the same rationale that robbers and burglars use when they take your things. "I need it more than you do." Please note that most people that support enabling welfare programs do not give to charity. They EVADE social responsibility by NOT giving their own time and community. Instead, they throw someone money at the symptoms of poverty with someone else's money. ONE CANNOT BE COMPASSIONATE BY SPENDING SOMEONE ELSE'S MONEY. Once our constitution was ignored, the legal plunder was free to be divided amongst everyone including the latest group of welfare mothers... the board members of several banks. It is an enabling device... merely because they will not split up mortgage bundles and evaluate them individually at their reappraised value. I'm for the notion that our tax and investment system should encourage charity and things that promote the GENERAL welfare... things that can be used by all but not a select few based upon arbitrary notions of "fairness" or "need". I wish someone would explain why someone who will not work and/or save money is not EVADING THEIR RESPONSIBILITY.

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