We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, 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.
This is the Preamble and the stated purpose of government in the Constitution. It is the first paragraph and establishes the tone of the entire document. Both Medicare for All and the Green New Deal fulfill the obligation of the people to "promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity."
Edit: Here is a part of the New Deal, the thing the Green New Deal is set to emulate.
Public Works Administration (PWA), part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. It was created by the National Industrial Recovery Act in June 1933 in response to the Great Depression. It built large-scale public works such as dams, bridges, hospitals, and schools. Its goals were to spend $3.3 billion in the first year, and $6 billion in all, to provide employment, stabilize purchasing power, and help revive the economy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Works_Administration
The new deal built schools, dams and hospitals. It helped the economy grow a solid foundation to sustain the next generation. Some people might not want to work Green jobs, but plenty of other people will, just like our grand parents did.
Another source that may help define what promoting the general Welfare could mean to a founding father is a letter by John Adams on the idea of Education for All.
the social science will never be much improved untill the People unanimously know and Consider themselvs as the fountain of Power and untill they Shall know how to manage it Wisely and honestly. reformation must begin with the Body of the People which can be done only, to affect, in their Educations. the Whole People must take upon themselvs the Education of the Whole People and must be willing to bear the expences of it. there should not be a district of one Mile Square without a school in it, not founded by a Charitable individual but maintained at the expence of the People themselvs they must be taught to reverence themselvs instead of adoreing their servants their Generals Admirals Bishops and Statesmen
The other points in this letter are about paying Civil Servants livable and aspiring wages.
The New Deal, Medicare for All, and Education for All promote the general Welfare by giving people choices of potential jobs at good wages. The idea behind Medicare for All is that someone goes to the doctor and that doctor gets paid. The jobs would be posted and positions filled like any other job. If it pays right, people will take the job. The higher the pay, the more competitive the applications become.
Before I knew who she was and stood for all I knew she was some “crazy extremist” based purely on the mainstream bullshit I would read.
But when I actually did my homework - this woman is the LEAST crazy person in politics. Her ideas aren’t extreme.. it’s human decency. Which really pisses me off that I was so easily swayed in the beginning
jcooli09 on November 22nd, 2020 at 19:35 UTC »
There is nothing patriotic about capitalism. Nothing.
Edit: I didn't comment on the value of any economic system here, so spare me your passionate defenses of capitalism.
42Pockets on November 22nd, 2020 at 20:04 UTC »
This is the Preamble and the stated purpose of government in the Constitution. It is the first paragraph and establishes the tone of the entire document. Both Medicare for All and the Green New Deal fulfill the obligation of the people to "promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity."
Edit: Here is a part of the New Deal, the thing the Green New Deal is set to emulate.
The new deal built schools, dams and hospitals. It helped the economy grow a solid foundation to sustain the next generation. Some people might not want to work Green jobs, but plenty of other people will, just like our grand parents did.
Another source that may help define what promoting the general Welfare could mean to a founding father is a letter by John Adams on the idea of Education for All.
The other points in this letter are about paying Civil Servants livable and aspiring wages.
The New Deal, Medicare for All, and Education for All promote the general Welfare by giving people choices of potential jobs at good wages. The idea behind Medicare for All is that someone goes to the doctor and that doctor gets paid. The jobs would be posted and positions filled like any other job. If it pays right, people will take the job. The higher the pay, the more competitive the applications become.
major-DUTCH-Schaefer on November 22nd, 2020 at 20:10 UTC »
This woman is a gem..
Before I knew who she was and stood for all I knew she was some “crazy extremist” based purely on the mainstream bullshit I would read.
But when I actually did my homework - this woman is the LEAST crazy person in politics. Her ideas aren’t extreme.. it’s human decency. Which really pisses me off that I was so easily swayed in the beginning