What About "We the People..."

Sometimes I think we spend so much time arguing about what was just said we forget what was said at the outset.

The outset of our constitutional government in this case. While our Rebublican brothers are wondering in a very Libertarian manner " What's wrong with everyman-for-himself?"; the founders had a more common sentiment in mind.

One of the few stated purposes of creating this great state was to "promote the general welfare". Granted this has always been held in tension with its companion purpose to "secure the blessings of liberty". Never in my lifetime have these noble motives seemed more mutually exclusive than in current conservative rhetoric. Unless you consider current conservative political action.

The government was always intended to promote the general welfare. It was clearly not the framers wish to leave portions of society either to fend for themselves or to rely on the kindness of the well-to-do.

We need to leave the jungle to its laws and the allow the U.S. government to pursue the purposes of its constitution. This absolutely includes the welfare of all its citizens.