I am glad you like it. I learned that word while studying the verbicide of the word “welfare” by FDR. He used it as the very foundation of the Federal government’s established religion of socialism by claiming that “welfare,” and therefore Social Security (and later more socialist programs), was allowed by the Constitution when the truth is “welfare did not mean what FDR claimed it meant. And so he was able to implement “hereditary bondage” with his “sacred trust” of Social Security. This verbicide established this socialist religion and it is the foundation of the serfdom placed upon Americans since then.
The Feminists and LGBTQ use these socialist programs to get Americans that disagree with their Cult, to pay, through taxation (really tithing), for programs that “benefit” their religion. Like, for example, what happened with ObamaCare and contraceptives. The Feminists lost their collective minds when Hobby Lobby won the right to refuse to pay for the Free Contraceptives doctrine of their Cult Religion. It was heresy to the Socialist Cult religious doctrines. All OTHER religions must be subject to the Socialist Doctrines and the RFRA allowed an exemption to their dogma. Feminist leaders LIKE Kara Loewentheil, a Research Fellow at Columbia Law School, made it clear that they had to get “positive religious rights” to counter the “negative religious rights” protected by the RFRA. And that is the foundation of the LGBTQ/Feminist movement of silencing opposition and demanding changes in the language and thereby force compliance to their religious doctrines. The LGBTQ/Feminists are no less religiously dogmatic than radical Muslims. Comply or be forced.
The meaning of “welfare” and “general welfare” as the Founding Fathers understood them was verbicide by FDR. Here is how it was done.
“Welfare” is defined in Noah Webster’s original 1828 Dictionary as:
WEL’FARE, noun [well and fare, a good going; German wohlfahrt; Dutch welvaart; Swedish valfart; Danish velfoerd.]
1. Exemption from misfortune, sickness, calamity or evil; the enjoyment of health and the common blessings of life; prosperity; happiness; applied to persons.
2. Exemption from any unusual evil or calamity; the enjoyment of peace and prosperity, or the ordinary blessings of society and civil government; applied to states.
Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary comprised of the 1864, 1879 and 1884 issues updated and revised and published in 1904 and the Revised 1913 edition defines “welfare” with no obvious substantial change in its meaning except that the distinction between “applied to persons” and “applied to states” has been removed. This is an important distinction as both of the Constitution’s “general Welfare” clauses are only “applied to states” and not to “persons.” The definitions of welfare is as follows:
1904 edition:
Welfare, n. [Well + fare to go, to proceed, to happen.] Well-doing or well being in any respect; the enjoyment of health and the common blessings of life; exemption from any evil or calamity; prosperity; happiness.
Webster’s 1913 Revised Unabridged Dictionary:
Wel”fare`, n. [Well + fare to go, to proceed, to happen.] Well-doing or well being in any respect; the enjoyment of health and the common blessings of life; exemption from any evil or calamity; prosperity; happiness.
Government doles such, as Social Security and Food Stamps were not even a part of the “welfare” definition. The term “Welfare work” is reported as first being mentioned in 1903 in Review of Reviews, stating:
“The term ‘industrial betterment’, or “welfare work,’ is used in a wider sense to include all of those services which an employer may render to his work people over and above the payment of wages. It has even been used to include the provisions of homes for employees, kindergartens, schoolhouses [etc.]”
Even this definition was not about government dole but private employment benefits.
Then in 1904 Century Magazine said:
“The Welfare worker of a large retail establishment.”
This Century Magazine quote is recognized in Webster’s 9th and 10th Collegiate Dictionaries. Welfare adj. (1904) 1: Of, relating to, or concerned with welfare and esp. with improvement of the welfare of disadvantaged social groups {~ legislation}
2: Receiving public welfare benefits {~ mothers}
And in Webster’s 10th Collegiate Dictionary:
welfare adj. (1904) 1: of, relating to, or concerned with welfare and esp. with improvement of the welfare of disadvantaged social groups {~legislation} . 2: receiving public welfare benefits {~families}.
Note again the subtle change from just mother’s to families. The lie just grows and grows but only in very small almost imperceptible steps. It is also interesting to note that “welfare” has become an adjective. It had historically been a noun.
Franklin D. Roosevelt understood all of the above. He was a master of politics. He said:
“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, it was planned that way.”
It was Roosevelt who, more than any other man in American history, used this verbicide so effectively to bypass the Constitution (he was sworn to uphold) and usurp authority by increasing federal power without properly amending the Constitution. FDR created the “federal welfare State” just by the use of verbicide.
President Washington warned us in his Farewell Address that such usurpation is the customary weapon to destroy free governments:
“If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.”
Socialism is nothing more than another step toward Godless Marxism and Marxism is nothing less than a religion of atheism. Therefore standards of Christian Morality MUST be broken in order for the LGBTQ/Feminist religion to be universal. And they will allow for nothing less than universal obedience.