The whole purpose of flooding this country with illegals is so the government can payoff the boomer retirement. That should be obviuos to everyone by now. You didn't think thet were actually going to cut spending or do means testing did you?

MS Fowler, the argument on the general welfare clause is the core argument that created the political parties we now have today. The FFs had as many political disagreements as any group. For every quote you can find from Madison, I can find one from Hamilton, who says the opposite, although Hamilton was crafty enough to keep his mouth shut until after the Constitution was ratified.

Madison, Washington, Mason, Burr and later Jefferson wanted it narrowly interpreted - they were the conservative Southrons of their day. Hamilton, Hancock, the Adams brothers, Thomas Paine, were, curiously, the Massachusets and New York liberals of the day, and felt the welfare clause meant whatever Congress says it means. It is an argument that has never ended in this country, and led to the founding of the Federalist and Democratic-Republican Party, the forerunners of our modern two parties.

In general the courts have sided with Hamilton's view, and surprisingly they often cite Madison's writings in the Federalist papers as justification - not a direct justification of welfare, but in Madison's statements that the Constitution has been left ambiguous in many areas so that Congress or the States can fill in the blanks. And fill they have.