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General welfare.(Letter to the Editor)
It needs to be said, so I will be the "heartless grinch" who dares to broach the forbidden subject. FEMA was broadly criticized for its tardy and inadequate response to Hurricane Katrina ("Katrina Exposes Fatal Flaws," October 3). While I am no constitutional lawyer, I certainly am a citizen of the United States with a right and a duty to read, study, and interpret the Constitution of the United States. Accordingly, I have done so and find no authorization for the involvement of the federal government in local disaster relief.
Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution lists 18 specific powers of the Congress, none of which is to authorize or finance localized disaster relief. Some people would make a case that the justification for it comes from the "general welfare" clause laid out in the first of those 18 listed powers. Such an errant interpretation would, of course, require that the relief for and reconstruction of New Orleans and its strategic ocean port would be general welfare for the country and not simply ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, General welfare.(Letter to the Editor)