@DanaBlankenhorn
Pretty soon, you'll have us back in the stone-age, which is liable to happen anyway if you and your "open source" nonsense were to become the norm.
It's important that you note the "collective welfare," which the Founders called the "general welfare."
When the founding fathers talked about the general welfare, they weren't talking about taking over the economy or trying to promote "general welfare" the way the democrats use it nowadays. General welfare had nothing to do with making sure that everybody made a decent living or was guaranteed one or didn't have to worry about working for a living. You are conveniently changing the "general welfare" to "collective welfare" to suit your argument. It is the bastardizing of that "general welfare" clause that has helped to bring this country down from being the most powerful to becoming basically an "also-ran", and perhaps in a few years, a third world country.
There are some conservatives today who don't recognize that there is such a thing as the general welfare.
Neither the constitution nor the bill of rights mention "general welfare" as a goal of government. Promoting the general welfare is not the same as guaranteeing that everybody will make a great living or have a great lifestyle or that government will lead the way for everyone. Promoting general welfare is done through insuring good infrastructure for businesses and making sure that the justice system and defense of the country are in good order. Without those insurances, "general welfare" would not even be a thought.
This has been an ongoing argument since the Founders, and modern conservatives are taking the anti-Federalist position, not the Federalist one.
You are the most clueless blogger that I have ever had a conversation with.
You have no idea about what this country is about or how it got to be the most powerful country in the history of the world. The freedoms that we enjoy came to us via the constitution and bill of rights. We also have the free-will to do with our lives as we wish, as long as it is within the constraints of the law. Every individual in this country is given the facilities to go as far as he desires and is capable of going. If everybody was "given" everything they need in order to basically exist and go through the motions of life, then we'd still be back in ancient times or before.
What has been created in this country in the last 100 years or so is a society where a great percentage of people have become dependent upon government for their lives, and that includes for shelter, food, entertainment, medicine, transportation and a lot of their their basic needs. When a country, through government largess becomes lackadaisical and lazy, we end up with what we have now, which is a country going downhill very fast. It's amazing to me how there can be so many people, including you, who cannot even see what's right under their noses. The evidence is very clear that government intervention into every part of our lives has been the cause of our decline. And now, you want to put the finishing touches on our coffin by naively believing that "open source" is the wave of the future.
A deep thinker you definitely are not!
I guess they're now building a bridge to 1783.
If you would bother to look very closely, you'd notice that we are headed there very fast, but not because of republican/conservative beliefs. And what's taking us there is the creeping socialism which you and the democrats have preached so much and which so many have stupidly adopted.
If you don't wake up to the reality around you, Dana, you will find yourself on the unemployment lines within 2 to 5 years, and then you'll still be naively blaming the republicans for the problems which you and the democrats created.
We think of open source as being a process for developing software. It’s also a process for developing cures.
