America’s dumbing down has been intentional. Ubiquitous constitutional illiteracy is a necessary ingredient for “fundamental transformation.”
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0:00 - 15:00. Joshua 4:1-7 (NASB95). Revisionism is a tool of subversion. 15:00 - 31:00. America’s dumbing down has been intentional. Ubiquitous constitutional illiteracy is a necessary ingredient for “fundamental transformation.” 31:00 - 48:00. “General welfare” was understood as a limiting principle imposed upon our federal government for well over a century. | Family Focus Weekend Feb 20-22, 2026 or call: 800-326-4543 To donate call : 877-616-2396
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0:33Good evening, everyone.
0:35Welcome to the Hamilton Corner.
0:36My name is Abraham Hamilton, the third host of the program
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0:47And we are ready to rock and roll with today's edition
0:51of the program at this very moment.
0:54Many of you, if not most of you, are making your transition
0:57from your part time jobs where you generate an income to your full time jobs where you cultivate
1:02an outcome. And as you do so, I must remind you to do so with intentionality. Understand
1:08in the primacy that God places on family recognizing the command in the Great Commission is to make
1:14disciples. A central feature of disciple making is the cultivation of the mind. One of the things
1:21that we're going to be getting into this in this segment straight away that's included in the cultivation
1:28of the mind is conveying history, an accurate rendering of history. The very word itself
1:36includes, in it why it's important for history to be conveyed accurately, because it is truly
1:41his story. And revisionism, and revisionism is a product of affirmatively rewriting
1:53historical narratives or intentionally omitting portions of history to serve one's purpose.
2:05They, revisionism is a tool of subversion. We are living in a country and I was just looking
2:13at founding era, educational material, material, state level things, the New England primer.
2:21When you consider the quality of offerings in our nation's history in terms of
2:29The cultivation of the mind which you often refer to as education and you see where we are now
2:38Honestly it brought me to tears it brought me to tears because
2:44we have such a
2:47Darwinian hubris
2:50because of
2:52Technological innovations that we've enjoyed
2:54to where we regard historical figures as being less than we are currently.
3:05But when you look at books, five, six, and seven-year-olds used to read,
3:10I'm meant to just stop that five, six, and seven-year-olds used to read in the 1700s
3:16and college students can't read today.
3:21And seeing how the dumbing down of our nation has been done so effectively,
3:28It's sad. It's sad. It's not the end of the story.
3:41You know, some of you may remember the show we did last Friday with Stephen McDowell.
3:45It's amazing what God can do when the people turn to Him.
3:53But we must turn to Him.
3:55So as you're making your transition to your full-time jobs,
3:59I really want to challenge you to think about this differently.
4:05to think about what you get to do on a daily basis as another day, you have another day
4:15to put a brick on the wall, so to speak, kind of like Nehemiah, a brick on the wall of reconstruction,
4:24of reconstructing biblical fidelity. You have an opportunity to lay another brick on the wall
4:32of reconstructing your family in the way of Christ,
4:41or constructing, maybe not even reconstructing.
4:45If you have younger children, you are building a first instance.
4:50So much has been lost and intentionally forfeited.
4:55That's why we continue to see, frankly, ludicrous, provocative,
5:01yet effective rhetorical devices employed in our society,
5:05like Chuck Schumer talking about voter identification requirements being Jim Crow, 2.0.
5:12I mean, that's a claim that is objectively false.
5:19So because it's objectively false, you would think, well, certainly people will see that
5:24and recognize, and as people say, objectively false things in the public intentionally, should
5:33that eliminate any credibility they might have.
5:39But you see the opposite happen,
5:44because our society has been deteriorated to such a degree.
5:47And the fact is it's been deteriorated intentionally
5:51to the degree that it has been to make it easier
5:55to manipulate people.
5:58Just like common sense and logic shows you,
6:01if you refuse to require people to identify themselves
6:04when they're casting a vote,
6:05it is because you want to make it as easy as possible
6:09for people to cheat when subversive efforts are employed to literally say our nation is
6:22something other than what she is. And I believe we need to be honest. We have to be honest.
6:28That's the only way we can move forward. But we have to identify revisionism as a subversive
6:35tactic. To the word of God we go. Joshua chapter 4. Joshua chapter 4 verses 1 through 7. We've
6:45We've talked about this passage of scripture before,
6:47but I want to reiterate it again
6:51as it's germane to our conversation today.
6:55Joshua chapter four, this is what the scripture says
6:58in verse one, now when all the nation
7:00had finished crossing the Jordan,
7:02this is when Joshua is leading the Israelites
7:05into the Promised Land, all right.
7:06Now when all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan,
7:09the Lord spoke to Joshua.
7:11The Lord spoke to Joshua saying,
7:14take for yourselves 12 men from the people.
7:17one man from each tribe and command them saying,
7:20take up for yourselves 12 stones from here,
7:23out of the middle of the Jordan,
7:25from the place where the priests feet are standing firm
7:28and carry them over with you
7:30and lay them down in the lodging place,
7:33where you will lodge tonight."
7:36So Joshua called the 12 men whom he had appointed
7:39from the sons of Israel, one man from each tribe.
7:42And Joshua said to them,
7:44cross again to the ark of the Lord,
7:46your God in the middle of the Jordan.
7:48And each of you take a bestown on his shoulder,
7:51according to the number of tribes of the sons of Israel.
7:54Let this be a sign among you,
7:56so that when your children ask later,
8:01saying, what do these stones mean to you?
8:05Then you shall say to them,
8:06because the waters of the Jordan were cut off
8:08before the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
8:10When it crossed the Jordan,
8:12the waters of the Jordan were cut off,
8:14So these stones shall become a memorial
8:17to the sons of Israel forever.
8:21Now as you heard as I read, I emphasized
8:25that as Joshua was leading the nation of Israel
8:27across the Jordan River, I emphasized who it was
8:31that initiated, who initiated the action
8:36to establish a memorial,
8:40a inaccurate historical recording.
8:45Who initiated that?
8:47The scripture is clear, it wasn't Joshua's idea.
8:51God initiated that.
8:53God is the one who said,
8:54Hey, Joshua, I know you're doing your thing
8:56that I called you to, to lead the nation of Israel.
8:59You know, you're entering the promised land,
9:00but yo, pause for a second, my man.
9:02Pause for a second, because this is a moment
9:05that needs to be documented accurately.
9:10Guys, the idea that history must be properly recorded.
9:18properly recorded. The idea that history's proper recording has enduring impact on
9:27the existing peoples at the time of the recordation as well as subsequent
9:32generations, this is a divinely inspired idea. It's a divinely inspired idea. When we
9:40pause and reflect upon the impact of historical recordings, how we've learned
9:46from civilizations and times past and all of these things. The idea is not merely a humanistic
9:57musing. Guys, it's a divine, divinely authored idea. It's a divinely authored idea. This is why I cringe
10:09when I think about how broadly in our nation right now, the discipline of instruction concerning
10:17history has largely, largely been ceded to people who are hostile to the Lord.
10:29It's been largely ceded to people who are hostile to the truth.
10:36It's been largely ceded to people who have a vested interest in concealing God's evidence
10:46throughout history in our own nation and the nations around the world.
10:51He find it in things like how there's been, I would argue, a demonically inspired communication
10:58that slavery is something that's unique to the United States of America and how really foolish
11:04it is for anybody who would have a Bible to even think that.
11:09One of the defining things in the scripture is an entire book that's titled Exit.
11:14Exit from what you would say, Egyptian slavery.
11:21This is not meant in any way to minimize the objective horror that the Transatlantic
11:29Slave Trade was.
11:33But honestly, we should never be able to have a conversation about the horrors of the Trans
11:37Atlantic Slave Trade without discussing from whom the Transatlantic Slave Traders learned
11:44the trade from.
11:46It's also very similar, and this is one of the things that I have a great problem with
11:55with the Republican Party.
11:57Why when people discuss a Republican Party will start by describing it as the party of
12:01Lincoln and we'll talk about how the Republican Party was created to abolish slavery in the
12:04United States of America because that is an historical fact, by the way.
12:10But we'll kind of zoom right past the 1860s and show up Ronald Reagan.
12:15What would happen in the intervening years?
12:18What happened between the party of Lincoln's formation and the years when Ronald Reagan became
12:23the popular president, he became, what happened in those years?
12:28Do we know anything about Lily,
12:31Blanco, Republicanism?
12:32Do we know anything about that?
12:34No, most people don't.
12:35Why don't we?
12:37It's one of the reasons why we have the struggles
12:39that we have that we don't have a foundational understanding
12:42that, you know, perverbially spoken black history
12:45is American history.
12:46Do we know about Cardagew, Woodson, and Negro History Week
12:51and the purpose of it?
12:52And the role it was meant to play
12:54and how it contributed to?
12:55We don't know a lot of these things, man.
12:58The idea for accurate recording of history was God's idea.
13:02in the Lord, explain why.
13:04Josh, I'm telling you to do this for this reason,
13:06because I want you to establish a memorial
13:09that will provoke historical inquiry.
13:12I need you to erect this because I need you,
13:16I'm instructing you to erect this memorial
13:18because I want to direct your progeny
13:23toward an historical communication,
13:25an accurate communication of history.
13:28Because I have said, and I will continue to say
13:31that accurate historical recordings
13:34ultimately direct us, point us to theological truths.
13:44Direct this Joshua so that when your children pass it,
13:50they'll ask, now what does this mean?
13:54Now what does this mean?
13:57Guys, this scripture also reveals
13:58that God desires to have a generational interest
14:05in accurate history.
14:10We have succumbed in our nation to a nefarious strategy
14:19that has been promulgated for the express purpose
14:23of subversion.
14:27Because when we look at history act really,
14:28even as it applies to our nation,
14:31it would provoke us to ask and all at the fact
14:36that God uses crickety-trick sticks
14:38to paint straight lines.
14:44The scripture told us my people suffer
14:46from that lack of knowledge.
14:49That is true.
14:50next segment we're going to talk about it. What truly did the founders understand? The general welfare clause to me.
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16:05Shining light into the darkness, this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
16:11Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here.
16:15Man, next weekend, we will be in Simmsboro, Louisiana at Simmsboro, First Baptist Church
16:21For the family focused weekend for those who are watching the show,
16:25you should probably see on the screen right now,
16:28the events page where you have to go to register.
16:32Again, the registration is not for any type of pay or anything.
16:35The event is free of charge, but the church
16:37would like to know who's all coming so they can prepare
16:41for your arrival because they will have food for attendees there.
16:45You'll also see on the events page the itinerary for the weekend.
16:50It's going to be an amazing time there.
16:53I am so looking forward to this.
16:55I've been praying and anticipation of this event.
16:58And this is going to be a great time
17:01as we worship the Lord together and be sharpened
17:04to be effective in this time and place where God has planted us.
17:07If you're in the area or willing to come to the area,
17:09I would love to meet you.
17:11That is FBC, simsborough.org is the website.
17:15Well, you need to go to register.
17:16We'll be at Simsborough, First Baptist Church,
17:18February 20th through the 22nd, there is,
17:22there are provisions being made for caring for children
17:26during the event, contact the church
17:29for more information on that point,
17:31but I look forward to seeing you there.
17:34All right, continuing the conversation
17:38we were having previously about history
17:42and understanding history.
17:46I said a while back on the show,
17:48plan to dig a bit deeper into this.
17:50And that is what comes to your mind immediately.
17:55When you hear what federal government is to provide for the general welfare of the
18:00nation, what immediately comes to your mind?
18:02Most people, when you say general welfare, what comes to your mind is what welfare
18:08programs, right?
18:10Entitlement spending, right?
18:12That's what comes to most people's minds.
18:14Now, I just, man, this is kind of like a public service announcement, a reminder that the
18:22U.S. Constitution, when it was drafted, it was not meant to be viewed as this lofty,
18:30unapproachable document.
18:31It was written with the express purposes to allow dads and moms to discuss and share and
18:45and read and understand the Constitution, the U.S. Constitution, around their kitchen tables,
18:51around their dinner tables.
18:56Now, because we are a constitutional republic in terms of our governmental form with democratic
19:02features, a constitutional republic with democratic features, you've heard me say on the show
19:05numerous times that Article 4 of the U.S. Constitution guarantees to every American citizen a Republican
19:12form of government.
19:13That's what's in the Constitution.
19:16Because we have a constitution that communicates that our government is of the people, by the
19:22people, for the people, the very first words of our constitution says, we the people, don't
19:29you think it's important for the people to, one, read the Constitution, the US Constitution?
19:40Don't you likewise think it is important for the American people to understand the Constitution,
19:47the US Constitution? When you think that? I have a question then, with all of our mandatory
19:56subjects in school, why isn't constitutional law required before people graduate from high
20:06school? Have you ever thought about that? I mean, considering the importance of the document
20:17to the lives of the American citizens. Have you considered why that's not required? How
20:25about this? Why isn't the US Constitution a general education requirement in America's
20:35colleges and universities? I'm not talking about understanding litigation strategies. I'm
20:45not talking about reading case law, reading jurisprudence. I am talking about reading the
20:52articles of the US Constitution, reading the debates surrounding the US Constitution, reading
20:59Madison, James Madison's notes concerning what transpired at the Philadelphia Convention.
21:05I'm talking about reading things like the Federalist Papers.
21:08Why aren't these things more foundational requirements?
21:17Why isn't the Declaration of Independence the Assign and Committee the initial draft of
21:24the Declaration and then the final draft of it?
21:26Why aren't these things mandatory reading and study?
21:33If we're going to have a citizenry, you turn 18,
21:38you become eligible to vote.
21:39Don't you think it would be important for those
21:41who are eligible to vote at 18 years old
21:44to understand how we arrived at the voting franchise?
21:48Do you think that's important?
21:54Do you think it's important to understand how things
21:56like the Magna Carta contributed and influenced?
22:03I'm asking these questions in view of what we just read
22:09in the first segment from Joshua chapter four.
22:14And hopefully you can see that,
22:18I mean, I'm telling you, you wanna talk about
22:24a galling consideration
22:27with all of the subjects that we make mandatory.
22:30Why, why, why haven't we, why isn't it mandatory for
22:33American children to understand the American Constitution?
22:39Why?
22:41Oh, I think I'll learn that later.
22:42Win, win!
22:49And I'll just say this is a little, a little, a little birdie told me that the Shareathon
22:52on Premium coming up for the Spring Shareathon is going to be pocket constitutions.
22:57When I show people the size of the Constitution, how brief it is, people are shocked.
23:03That's, that's it?
23:04That's how short?
23:05Yes.
23:07And, and guys, I hope you're here my heart.
23:09I'm not up here like trying to be on some soapboxed perch and asserting my supremacy and
23:17denigrating those who have not experienced what I have.
23:23What I'm hoping that you will see from this,
23:28is that we've been played, man.
23:32Fam, we have been played.
23:35How can we, year after year, admit additional 18-year-olds
23:41to the voting electorate and their 18-year-olds
23:44have not even read one article of the Constitution?
23:49Is that not a part of preparedness for adulthood?
24:00The intentional dumbing down and revisionism
24:05of our history with affirmative misrepresentations combined
24:11with strategically positioned omissions
24:15have been discharged for the purpose of subversion.
24:25The general welfare clause is just one of them.
24:29I'm going to read the preamble and I'll just tell you the preamble is where the general welfare
24:34clause is employed.
24:35It's also articulated in Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution.
24:40But this is what the preamble says.
24:42We, the people of the United States of America, in order to form a more perfect union, establish
24:50justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general
24:58welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity to ordain
25:06and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
25:13The introductory paragraph for our Constitution specifies six purposes for which the Constitution
25:21was created.
25:22I've explained to you before that the U.S. Constitution was created as the implementation
25:28vehicle for the vision articulated in the Declaration of Independence.
25:33We are approaching the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
25:39It's largely described as America 250 because the U.S. was forged from the Declaration.
25:47It was the declared removal of our nation from being a British colonial pursuit.
26:04After the declaration was articulated in 1776, about a decade and a year later, 11 years later,
26:11you have the production of the U.S. Constitution.
26:15Subsequent to that, it's ratification.
26:21I'm going through this, man, because we have to understand this.
26:24When you have those six purposes articulated, in order to form a more perfect union, establish
26:31justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare.
26:38The context of the statement itself gives you an idea as to what is meant by the term.
26:44Notice that the reference to the general welfare immediately follows, provide for the common
26:51defense.
26:52Why am I pointing that out, guys?
26:56I'm pointing it out because the term general welfare was intended originally to convey a
27:16limiting principle to convey a limit to what the federal government would do, not
27:26kick the bar and door wide open and spin on anything you want. And here's the not so secret secret
27:31guys. This is why I'm telling you revisionism by affirmative misrepresentations or by intention
27:36little missions. Revisionism is the tool of subversion because most Americans when they hear
27:43general welfare today, they think, yeah, see, that's why the US government spins like a drunken
27:50when the exact opposite is true.
27:54And it was true and commonly understood
27:57for well over 100 years.
28:00The reference to the federal government's
28:05existence to quote,
28:07promote the general welfare was a limiting principle.
28:13How so Abe?
28:16I'm glad you asked.
28:18The founders understood and even with the debates
28:21between Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, subsequently James Monroe.
28:27The debates all surrounded the idea that the federal government's constitutional investment
28:37in the quote, promotion of the general welfare, end quote, limits the federal government to
28:44acting only where it is generally applicable to the nation as a whole, as opposed to advancing
28:59or promoting special interest.
29:09Guys, that was the understanding in the United States of America from its founding through
29:19over 100 years. It was not really until, stop me if you heard this before, the Progressive
29:28Era where certain lowlights took place, you know, like the passage of the Federal Reserve Act,
29:351913, the creation of the IRS with the capacity to directly tax the income of American citizens,
29:45Progressive Era, amending the Constitution to change the composition of the U.S. Senate away from
29:53being elected by state legislatures to being a popular vote initiative, progressive era.
29:58Isn't it interesting that following the Federal Reserve Act's passage in 1913,
30:04one of the very next things that happens is, oh yeah, that's right, World War I, 1914,
30:10isn't that interesting? Guys, it was widely and broadly understood that the general welfare clause
30:19limited to federal government. It put constraints on the federal government away
30:25from acting unless the action was broadly applicable to the nation.
30:32Excuse me, I dropped my glass to a nation to the nation as a whole. The salient point
30:43of the general welfare articulation in the preamble and in article one section
30:47when it get to that in a moment. The understood meaning and the salient point of its meaning
30:57was that its implication was a negative constraint. It was not an affirmative endorsement.
31:05Yes, spend all that, spend all that, no, it was a constraint. It was, oh, no, no, no, the federal
31:11government doesn't act unless its action is generally applicable, meaning to everyone,
31:17to the nation as a whole.
31:21And when I say everyone, I don't mean to everyone
31:23as to each individual.
31:25I mean to the nation as a whole, you know,
31:27things like national borders.
31:29You see, those were general welfare promotion,
31:39ideal ideas and concepts as it was understood
31:43at the founding era.
31:44The term general, the term general means applicable
31:54to the whole rather than particular parts of
31:57or special interests.
32:01Now now just pause for a moment to think about this.
32:07So under the foundness, understanding of general welfare, do you think it would include passive
32:15entitlements?
32:16Bending?
32:17I think the answer is pretty obvious.
32:24And that answer is no.
32:27But because the American people have not understood this, because this has not been taught broadly
32:33and widely, we have the reverse that's happened.
32:37We now have a nation when things transpire, the initial question is, what is the federal
32:41government going to do?
32:42What is the federal government going to do?
32:44What is the federal government going to do?
32:45And that was never how the founders intended for our nation to function.
32:48We used to be a people when things happened, our initial response is, what are we going
32:52to do?
32:53The only time the federal government would act would be in the promotion of the general welfare.
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34:15Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton III here.
34:18Guys, very simple textual reading would help us to get to this understanding.
34:23When you see in the preamble that the promotion of the general welfare follows the expression
34:28to provide for the common defense and to promote for and sorry and to promote the general welfare.
34:36These are both terms concepts that convey immediately broad application to the nation as a whole.
34:45Then when you go into examine congressional action immediately following the ratification of the US Constitution,
34:52you will see over and over and over for over the first 100 years in our nation's history.
34:58When considerations and appropriations will come up and I'm gonna turn now to the spending clause that's in
35:04Article 1 section 8 of the US Constitution and it says the Congress shall have power to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and
35:13general welfare of the United States notice the connection once again common defense general welfare common defense general welfare
35:22these were meant to be
35:25provisions employed or those provisions would only be employed when they were addressing
35:31the nation as a whole, not particularized interests.
35:44Take this for example.
35:46The first Congress refused to make a loan to a glass manufacturer after several members
35:51expressed a view that such an appropriation would be unconstitutional.
35:56The fourth Congress did not believe it had the power to provide relief to the citizens
36:01of Savannah, Georgia after a devastating fire destroyed the entire city.
36:05I think the Congress, the fourth Congress didn't care about Savannah, Georgia.
36:10Of course they did.
36:13But they recognized that the U.S. Constitution did not allow it to act to spend federal money
36:24except in the promotion of the corporate general welfare.
36:37The debates in Congress did not reflect whether Congress thought such appropriations
36:41unconstitutional because they did not further other enumerated powers, as James Madison would say,
36:47or because they were local rather than of national benefit, but they reflect a rejection of the broad
36:54interpretation of the spending power. A broad interpretation of the spending power is what they
37:03objected to. I would encourage you to research the Cumberland Road issue in Ohio. I'm sorry,
37:12started Cumberland Gap Road issue in Ohio.
37:17That was viewed as something that benefited the nation
37:20as a whole, but appropriations for other local projects
37:26such as public education and local roads and canals,
37:30the general benefit of which was less direct.
37:34You heard me right, less direct.
37:36They were viewed as unconstitutional in the early 1800s.
37:49Why don't we know more about these debates?
37:50Why don't we know more about these conversations?
37:54Because revisionism is a tool that's employed
37:56for subversive purposes.
38:02It's a tool of subversion.
38:06If you look at congressional appropriations
38:08in the first 50 to 100 years of our nation,
38:13the picture becomes extremely clear
38:16as to what the founders and then subsequent
38:19American generations viewed as general welfare.
38:29But here we are now in our nation to where
38:33the interest on our national debt equals what we spend
38:44for the common defense for defense spending.
38:50Guys, the constitutional illiteracy has grave consequences.
38:56And I know some of you are thinking like,
38:57well, hey, look how far down on road we are,
38:59how can we reverse it?
39:00The first step in reversing it guys is having a populace
39:03that knows it needs to be reversed.
39:06And not only a general idea that man,
39:08the national debt is bad for us as a nation,
39:11but being able to identify why it's bad,
39:14and exactly where we got off the rails, you know?
39:18It's one thing for a train to get off its tracks.
39:20There's another thing to identify how, when,
39:21and why the train got off the tracks.
39:30And I will continue to remind you,
39:32just because something has been done a certain way
39:34for a certain amount of time doesn't mean
39:36that we should accept that as what should be normal.
39:45This is why in the founding era,
39:46the federal government was not involved in education.
39:49Not because the founding era,
39:50the founders didn't value education,
39:52it's actually the exact opposite.
39:55I could show you scores of writing that showed
39:57how during the founding era in media generations of America,
40:00that one of the things that was so remarkable of our nation
40:03when compared to other nation was how widespread literacy was.
40:08Other commentators couldn't,
40:10were overwhelmed in considering, man,
40:13the American people, everybody reads.
40:16Guys, that wasn't the case in other countries.
40:22But we've been dumbed down, man.
40:25We've been dumbed down.
40:28We've been dumbed down.
40:30Why can't high schoolers read the Federalist Papers?
40:37Why aren't Madison's notes on the Constitution
40:40require reading because they want a populist?
40:45When I say they, I'm talking about the
40:48regressive social engineers who are invested
40:51in the fundamental transformation
40:52of the United States of America into something else.
40:54The same people that will try to benignly say,
40:58it's not a big deal in one of the biggest events
41:02on America's annual calendar that the central entertainment
41:06feature spoke literally 99% no English.
41:17That's just wild man, that's just wild.
41:21That's just wild.
41:22And if you, you don't want that's the problem.
41:25If you think that American public celebration
41:27should be done in English, you know,
41:30the language commonly spoken by American citizens,
41:32then you're the problem.
41:36You're the problem just like if 83% of the American people
41:40say, you know what?
41:41You should need to show a photo ID to register the vote and the vote.
41:45And you say, yeah, I agree with that.
41:47No, no, no, you're the problem.
41:48That's Jim Crow 2.0.
41:50You all see the consistency with this insanity.
42:01General welfare was never understood to be the green light for overwhelming entitlement
42:09spending on social programs in America.
42:12Never guys, never, never.
42:20Go back and look at what when the federal income tax was instituted, how did it start?
42:26you'll see a commonly spotted refrain from recent history. You realize it was a 1% tax in the beginning?
42:35It was a soaked, rich tax. How'd that work out? Now. How'd that work out?
42:43Oh, yeah, yeah. It's now every American. Man, we've been had, we've been played in the
42:57The ruse and the deception has been promulgated through revisionism largely.
43:03Affirmative misrepresentations combined with intentional strategically employed omissions.
43:11People say to General Welfare and they decontextualized the phrasing.
43:16They were strip it from the context of the actual verbiage in the U.S. Constitution itself,
43:20and they strip it from the context as the verbiage was understood when the document was written,
43:27and for the next 100 years thereafter.
43:34They didn't see.
43:36general welfare clause in the US Constitution, the preamble, and then subsequently in Article
43:411, Section 8, as the green light to spend your way until oblivion, it actually was understood
43:52rightly as constraining. Congress cannot make appropriations unless those appropriations apply
44:05to the nation as a whole. No picking and choosing, no onesie twosies. This is not a
44:14callous disdain for the poor. It's simply a proper balancing of order. It's not a
44:22question of if it's a question of who that's all. Any powers that have not been
44:31expressly ever heard this language expressly enumerated within this
44:38Constitution and delegate it to the federal government within this document, it is then
44:45expressly reserved to the states and to the people. At best, guys, non-general welfare
45:00should be provided for by those closest to the ones who are in need of help. Because the
45:15The further you get away from the problem, the easier it is to be irresponsible, the easier
45:23it is for waste and fraud and abuse to transpire, the further you remove from the people, the
45:30easier it is to happen.
45:38So the federal taxpayers in the 21st century end up bankrolling all kinds of shenanigans.
45:48USAID and his heartbreaking to know that this has happened.
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46:08Trust but verify.
46:10Read Madison's notes.
46:13Thank God we have that preserved.
46:16We have Madison's notes on the Constitution Convention.
46:19Read the Federalist Papers.
46:20See the arguments that were made between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists.
46:29A lot of the arguments and warnings that the anti-federalists made sure look kind of prophetic
46:34right about now.
46:40Read the debates, read the historical construction.
46:45One of the major ways you know that the founders never intended for the federal government to
46:49become this large, all-encompassing behemoth is because its means for revenue generation
46:54were intentionally kept minimal.
46:57But most Americans say they don't understand that.
47:06And then when you have a massive influx of people who come from countries to where they're
47:10pretty Marxist in their orientations.
47:13You have massive amounts of people from South Central and South America, and they come from
47:19nations to where government involvement in all things and all areas of life is kind of
47:24normalised.
47:25What do you think they expect when they come here?
47:28That's what they expect.
47:31And if they have that expectation, that expectation is not confronted in the Leslie and the Secretary
47:36about something. We need to continue vigorously detaining and
47:42important illegal immigrants. And we really do legal immigrants
47:47disservice when they come to the United States of America, and
47:53they are they are deprived from learning what were the foundational
47:58tracks that led to the American train to gain the steam that that
48:02she gained over time. Beyond the concerns about immigrants,
48:08legal immigrants, we deny our offspring a heritage that they should be afforded when we participate
48:19either by affirmative complicity or by ignorance and or negligence.
48:25We deprive them of learning.
48:27You do realize learning things like you do realize the promotion of the general welfare
48:32was meant to limit federal appropriations.
48:38This can only appropriate when they are doing so to promote what's best for the nation as
48:46a whole, the corporate whole, the national whole, not special interests, not particular
48:54pet projects, but we've turned our nation on her head.
49:03And it's not surprising, because largely our nation, scripture has been rejected and truth
49:08has fallen in the streets.
49:12We can start building, just like Nehemiah's leading the reconstruction of the wall, by laying
49:19one brick at a time.
49:26General welfare clauses were never meant to be green lights for runaway spending.
49:31The general welfare clauses were meant as constraints upon Congress's ability to appropriate.
49:40The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the
49:44American Family Association or American Family Radio.
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