Reply #22: The Preamble to the US Constitution [View All]

[Jim__]

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.

The founders of this country used as one of the bases for the country is to promote the general welfare. Promoting the general welfare is not building a nanny state; but it is recognizing that the government has a role in helping people to get by. We can argue about the details of how far the government should go; there is no question that the government has a role.