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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Did the Founders Care if We Starve?

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, History, Politics

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

From a 2009 Episode, answering a question about healthcare reform, Bruce delves into the Founders and if they were concerned with individual-level problems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to an AirWave Media Podcast.

0:10.0

Hello, this is Matt from the Explorers Podcast.

0:12.7

I want to invite you to join me on the voyages and journeys of the most famous explorers

0:16.6

in the history of the world.

0:18.6

These are the thrilling and captivating stories of Vagelin, Shackleton, Lewis and Clark,

0:23.2

and so many other famous and not so famous adventures from throughout history.

0:27.6

Go to ExplorersPodcast.com or just look us up on your podcast app.

0:31.8

That's the Explorers Podcast.

0:36.3

Does voting make people happy?

0:39.0

And did the founders want us to starve?

0:42.3

And both of these questions are based on questions from listeners to my history can

0:46.3

beat up your politics, podcast, though they are not, certainly the exact questions that

0:52.5

they asked.

0:53.5

Carl Stowicki from Cleveland, Ohio writes,

1:23.5

In other words, they think the welfare clause nullifies the 10th amendment.

1:42.2

I love the podcast and I know this represents a classic debate.

1:45.6

It certainly does.

1:47.0

Carl, it is the debate over the general welfare clause.

1:51.6

And that is a key point by the way and I don't know if we're just skipping the word

1:55.4

in the question or if your friends are saying it that way, if they're calling it the

2:00.0

welfare clause, when it's actually the general welfare clause, that's a key distinction

2:06.3

sound small.

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