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Episode 112: The Origins of the Social Contract, Part 1

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The Social Contract

The Special Olympics only gets 10% of its funding from the federal government. This is one of those feel good things that politicians get involved with and they say look at the great thing we just did and it is unconstitutional. Any number of things that you might never want to do that are in fact terrible ideas are perfectly constitutional. The Constitution has to matter here. Getting this funding is not going to balance the budget, but this is precisely the sort of thing that took the budget out of control in the first place and undermined respect for the Constitution almost completely in the second. Until and unless we decide to hold their feet to that fire, nothing good will happen.

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