What does the Preamble to the Constitution have to do with Build Back Better?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

As Congress debates whether and how much of President Biden's proposed $1.9 trillion Build Back Better (BBB) legislation to approve, it is important to keep at least two factors in mind:

First, the proposed BBB is consistent with the Preamble to our Constitution. There are four tenets in the Preamble: establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare. These four tenets are the responsibility of the government, not individuals.

According to the White House, the BBB act will promote the general welfare by setting the country on a course to meet its climate goals, create millions of good-paying jobs, enable more Americans to join and remain in the labor force, and grow our economy from the bottom up and the middle out. This supports general welfare, not personal welfare.

Second, BBB is not a new concept. It builds upon the movement initiated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the height of the Depression and embraced and expanded 12 times by five of his successors, two of whom were Republicans.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/what-does-the-preamble-to-the-constitution-have-to-do-with-build-back-better/ar-AAT8Idj

[marie999]

1. Nothing, it is in the preamble but that doesn't matter,

what does matter is it is in Article 1, Section 8, clause 1. But even there it really doesn't have a meaning since it is so vague. Congress loves to use it to pass whatever they want. I mean even the military is for the general welfare.