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By HAROLD W. ROOD
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
Congressman Augustus F. Hawkins was asked late last year how the new Democratic Congress would pay for the ambitious programs of social services that Congress would likely enact. He suggested that there be cuts in the defense budget, and that “especially the Strategic Defense Initiative should be cut back.”
In our current way of talking about politics, what Hawkins suggested seems almost natural to the., humane person. After all, is not the welfare of the American people far more important than the procurement of military hardware? And is not the feeding of human beings of greater importance than the feeding of the dreaded “military-industrial complex?” These sentiments, though popular among lawmakers and laymen alike, are misguided. To find out why, we ought to carefully scrutinize what the Founding Fathers had to say about the necessity of a national defense.
The first place to turn is the Preamble to the Constitution'itself.
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