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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Father Terrence who wrote (24385)	7/13/2000 11:52:26 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Even Adam Smith allowed room for investment in infrastructure. But that is not the main point. In a democracy, there is a good deal of latitude in defining what is the government's business. Whether or not the programs are desirable, one cannot take too much off the table without vitiating democracy. All that would have happened would have been to subject the Constitution to even greater revision, as public sentiment changed on issues like the role of the Federal Government. That is why Robert Bork says that strict construction of the 10th amendment is a dead issue: any attempt in that direction would provoke a new constitutional convention......