Key Words that are in the preamble to the United States Constitution. I have put them in bold type.
We the people of the United States, in order to 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, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Perhaps some of our Representatives and Senators haven’t read the constitution or maybe they have forgotten the words. For now we have a population of 308 million people and 43 million of them need food stamps to survive. That is 14% of our population. The USDA and the U.S. Census is the source of this information.
While those people must resort to the use of food stamps Businessweek magazine, in their final issue of this year, graphically defined the unemployed, partially employed, and those who have given up searching for a job at 17% of the work force.
Thus in an act of goodwill the G.O.P. has agreed to extend unemployment benefit programs for millions of Americans along with an extension of low taxes to millionaires and billionaires.
The benefit to America’s unemployed by the recent Obama tax deal, I predict, will be nothing. The wealthy and big corporations will keep earning profits thanks to their investments and products made elsewhere. Incentives to increase American employment are too few to impact the current official 9.8% unemployment rate.
In two years the president will be faced with the choice of extending the lower taxes for the rich during a re-election campaign. There is no likely way those taxes will be increased.
Both Congress and the president have abdicated their responsibility to promote the general welfare.
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