How exactly is the creation of a public program by congress unconstitutional? Last I checked, laws that promote the common good are exactly within congress' enumerated powers.
"They are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare.... [G]iving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please which may be good for the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please."
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Thomas Jefferson--Hater of Liberals
Broadcasting that is unswayed by any personal profit motive is clearly a public good. Unfiltered information that is not controlled by the whims of wealthy owners is an essential service in a culture like ours where so much information is presented to prove a point, rather than simply to enlighten. Publicly controlled media, that is, controlled by all of us instead of some of us, is more reliable. Congress creating a public program to promote the general welfare is quite clearly their prerogative.
"If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare,
and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare,
they may take the care of religion into their own hands;
they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish
and pay them out of their public treasury;
they may take into their own hands the education of children,
establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union;
they may assume the provision of the poor;
they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads;
in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation
down to the most minute object of police,
would be thrown under the power of Congress.... Were the power
of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for,
it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature
of the limited Government established by the people of America."
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James Madison--Father of the Constitution--Hater of Liberals
Clearly the Left's bastardized interpretation of General Welfare is 100% different than what the Founders and Forefathers intended.
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