Tayssir John Gabbour <tayss_temp2@yahoo.com> wrote:
+---------------
| Bulent Murtezaoglu wrote:
| > I suspect you didn't do this on purpose, and I realize I am on thin
| > ice as a non-native speaker, but might I point out that "general
| > welfare" is only percieved as synonymous with "wealth transfer
| > through government coercion" because of an Orwellian corruption of
| > language. Who, afterall, can be against "general welfare"?
| 
| You're right. In fact, "the general welfare" is in the first line of
| the US Constitution. However, now it invokes images of welfare mothers
| breeding like rabbits (by implication black); a racist political PR tool.
+---------------

Maybe it's time for a more politically-correct update?

% diff -c USConstitution-1.0.txt USConstitution-1.1.txt
*** USConstitution-1.0.txt       2005-04-20 20:34:06.000000000 -0700
--- USConstitution-1.1.txt       2005-04-20 20:34:41.000000000 -0700
***************
*** 1,5 ****
  We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect
  Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, 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.
--- 1,5 ----
  We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect
  Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for
! the common defence, promote general Wellbeing, and secure the
  Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and
  establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
%


-Rob

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