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School House Rock: Preamble to The Constitution
Tue, 03/17/2009 - 1:05pm | posted by Shana Kluck
Another great video by School House Rock. I’ve played it a few times around here and my kids are already singing snatches of it, so it sounds like this is a great way to memorize the preamble, if you’re so inclined.
I’m still trying to figure out how “promote the general welfare” has turned into “provide nationlized healthcare”.
You are going to go there aren’t you.
According to reliable statistics, more babies die in the U.S. every year than in, France, Ireland, Spain, Switzerland, Slovenia, Taiwan, Cuba and South Korea.
When one considers that these countries all have national health care systems and we don’t, it starts to become obvious. More dead babies does not equal promoting the general welfare.
Now I have one for you. How does a nationalized postal service promote the general welfare? Can’t that be done through private institutions?
* including a couple links to relevant stats from Wikipedia and the article on infant mortality which discusses the validity of IMR stats.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_mortality_rate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_mortality#Comparing_infant_mortality…
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“Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions or property in geometrical progression as they rise.” - Thomas Jefferson, 1785
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