Oddbean

Thus the Constitution doth make socialists of us all... https://image.nostr.build/3d53e5eb871962d247ada9cf7017a81e2b78424f9a7fc59cb00a48a9cbe1f093.jpg The Post Office, for example, written into the Constitution, is a socialist institution. Eminent Domain, which allows the government to forcibly take private property for "the public good" is also socialist. Welfare spending, as well as most other government spending, is also socialist... nostr:nevent1qqswmtngusksa6r64h80huwsml33xvv6amga5y2nj70xfxv28d2lf4cpremhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet59upzpc4lz227mwzpnzxls7a63dt6c3j4vytmv3a60fqgftxcehapx3ehqvzqqqqqqya2j9xh

I don't disagree with your basic ., but welfare is not in the Constitution and was stopped repeatedly for being unconstitutional. The federal government was not involved in welfare until the 1900s, which is also when things got so bad. In particular, 1913 was a horrible year and set the foundation for the horror that is our current government.