| Congressional Representative Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Needham, MA Posts: 2,335 Level up: 13%, 263 Points needed |  |  Quote: |
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The best course of action with respect to Social Security is to sunset the program, grandfathering (on a pro-rated basis) those who have contributed. There is no justification for the federal government involving itself in my financial affairs.
| Has to be the smartest thing I have read on these pages yet. I'm curious, why does the gov't have a right to take my money to invest it for me (I mean spend it for me)? Exactly where is that stated within the Constitution? | You know, this has got to be the third or fourth time I have seen you look at an issue and simply ask wherre it is stated explicitly in the Constitution. You are naive and you're a moron. The framers created the Constitution as a living and flexible document, knowing that it would only work if it could be easily interpreted to fit the nation at any given stage. It all boils down to something reletively simple. That's Article I Section 8 of the Consitution, also known as the "necessary and proper" clause or the "elastic" clause. It is the basis of loose interpretation of the Constitution. It gives Congress the power to do anything "necessary and proper" for the country. This has been the justification for hundreds and hundreds of laws, acts, etc. But it don't take much to get me by
So just booze me up and get me high
Ween |