The Constitution is a frameworkSome things are better done collectively as part of a government than having everyone do it as individualsEquating wealth to responsibility is ludicrous , the reality is the higher up one is in corporate America, the less ethical one needs to be to stay there
Maybe, but that has noting to do with what I wrote. Only leftists can say people having more money is a negative thing, or that people taking care of themselves instead of the government doing it for them is a bad thing.
I agree and so did our founders. That's why when they wrote the Constitution, they included what our federal government was to be in charge of. And if you look at what the government is in charge of today, over 90% of what they do for the people is not within that Constitution.
The counter argument to that is the founders did not forbid the federal government from doing the things they do today. That is correct, but then ask yourself: if the founders didn't want government involved in those things, why did they list the things they have to be in charge of?
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution that grants Congress the right, of expending on articles of benevolence, the money of their constituents."
James Madison, annals of Congress, 1794
Now ask yourself, if we had always adhered to Madison's words, would we be anywhere near 20 trillion dollars in the hole today?
They thought it would be better to allow future generations of We the People to decide what government services they needed
By the way, Madison’s Government was in deeper debt than we are
Yes, they wanted local governments to decide what their people needed---not the federal government. They understood that a nanny federal government would give them way too much power like we're seeing today. It would be a government virtually impossible to change because of the dependency. Why do you think Democrats strive to get as many people on the dole as possible? Without dependency, there would be no Democrat party.
Exploitation isn't exclusively partisan Ray , dependency is created via our 'survival of the richest' shtick , where the loosers stay on the island