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Originally Posted by Broadsword2004
I can understand a base system of welfare for people who truly get knocked on their rear-end due to unfortunate circumstances (for example the guy who pays his taxes, works hard, etc...but his house burns down and his wife is terribly burned and he has to sell everything he owns to take care of her, etc...) well in something like that, I can see giving Federal assistance.
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I disagree completely.
Why is this a Federal responsibility, and where in the US Constitution does it grant the authority for the government to pay people for their own failure to plan?
I am pretty sure that it isn't in the Federalist Papers, either.
TR
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