Todd Akin is wrong about a lot of things, and very wrong about some things. But he is correct about the constitutionality of school lunch programs and Medicare.

Sadly but not surprising, people quickly jump into useless polarizing rhetoric rather than engage in rational discourse and constructive dialogue. The Democratic and Republican parties have no ideologies. They are in fundraising, and they raise funds by creating a false polarization. It is show business. Clinton didn't undo Reagan. Bush didn't undo Clinton. Obama hasn't undone Bush. At most, previous efforts are modified to favor different benefactors. Nobody likes gun control legislation more than the NRA or pro-life legislation more than Planned Parenthood because that's what gets the money rolling in.

We have union members, who, by definition of union are corporate entities, complaining about corporate greed, all while being part of the same greed they complain about. They look to corporate entities like political parties and government to do something about corporate greed. Corporate entities seek to consume capital the way living organisms seek their nourishment. It isn't rational to look to corporate entities to solve greed.

We have GM lending money to subprime borrowers to make today's numbers look good but setting themselves up for another collapse when these buyers start defaulting. Who are you fooling?

Let's start with the Constitution. The preamble includes a clause concerning promoting the general welfare. Promoting is not the same as providing. Promoting is about creating or maintaining favorable conditions. General means common or not specific. Since most of the population is not eligible for school lunches or Medicare, it is specific welfare and thus not supported by promoting the general welfare. That takes us to Article I Section * which has a number of clauses concerning the enumerated powers of government. None of these clauses emplowers the central government to be involved in health care or education, among other things. Nothing in the Federalist Papers indicates any intent by the founding fathers to involve government in these affairs. The government does have the power to lay and collect taxes, but only for the enumerated purposes for which the government was created.

Let's look at the Declaration of Independence. The founding fathers believed that the sole legitimate purpose of the institution of government was to secure the unalienable rights of men, and that anything more was a usurpation of those rights. These men risked their lives, liberty, and sacred fortunes for this belief and created this nation on that foundation. Disrespecting and dishonoring their sacrificez is wrong.

There is a reason the "P" in "People" is capitalized throughout the Constitution. The People are the rulers in America. Treason is defined as the usurpation of the power of the rightful rulers. The People cannot commit treason, but the government can and does.

Welfare is not and never has been charity. Welfare requires the involuntary seizing of the earnings of workers and redistribution to selected groups of voters and lining the pockets of preferred benefactors. Charity is voluntary. Voluntary is better than forced.

Instead of all of this useless, antagonistic, polarizing rhetoric, why not ask how we can change things so that Johnny doesn't need a taxpayer subsidized school lunch and Grandpa doesn't need to rely on taxpayer subsidized health care? That's what decent, moral, honest, rational, and compassionate people would do.

Perhaps we should tell Todd Adkin that white men who speak against women, get castrated by the stupidity they promote. Their bodies somehow stop the process of clear thinking and mindful speech when they spew such garbage.

Here we are, another multi-millionaire telling poor school children they don't deserve to eat a school lunch. Is it any wonder they continue to get richer and richer?

Oh, yes they deserve another tax break so they can create more jobs just like they did the last twelve years. Oh wait, you mean they didn't do that yet? What have they been waiting for? Why have they been outsourcing the jobs instead?

The degree of dumbing down that has gone on in this country over the past 40 years, or so, is beyond belief. Folks talk about what the Constitution says and what it does not say while in reality, they have no idea what it contains. Furthermore, has no one heard of The Federalist Papers? These 88 "op-eds" were written by the framers to inform the public about this document they had prepared for us to govern ourselves. If you want to know what the founders had in mind, read The Federalist Papers. As for Mr Aiken, he really is a no-nothing so why bother with him? If the voters of MO choose to return him to the Congress it is discriptive of who they are, nes pas?

If Akin wins his bid for Senator, he wil be reaping financial rewards from the connections this position offers. And I don't think he will turn these opportunities down, nor will he label them unconstitutional.