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To: Dinesh who wrote (100979)	3/17/2000 2:43:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

You mentioned national security as the rationale behind goverment funding of DARPANET. People's health should be granted similar priority. After all, the govt. funds a variety of other public good programs (e.g., Arts). Here we must disagree. Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution enumerates the power of congress to provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States. There's not a single word in the Constitution about funding social programs, even though the "general welfare" verbage is often misconstrued to justify it. The Arts are right out. It doesn't even matter if these are "good" programs or not. The fact of the matter is that the federal government is supposed to have exactly the powers specified in the Constitution, no more, no less, and funding the Arts or some grand Health Care Manhattan Project just isn't allowed. Of course, I know that this is the real world and the Constitution is just ignored by the left until someone wants to pray in school. A hypertext version of the Constitution can be found here: wwwsecure.law.cornell.edu