General Welfare

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution states:

We the people of the United States
___, in order to
___[1] form a more perfect union,
___[2] establish justice,
___[3] ensure domestic tranquility,
___[4] provide for the common defense,
___[5] promote the general welfare, and
___[6] secure the blessings of liberty
___to ourselves and our posterity,
do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America.

1. What does "general welfare" mean in the Constitutional context?
2. In what way(s) did the framers in September 1787 obligate the United States of America to promote it?
3. How is the USA promoting it today?
4. Notwithstanding presidential state-of-the-union speeches, what is the state of the union from your armchair-sitting point of view?

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[Pic: Sculpture in bas-relief by Lenore Thomas at Greenbelt Elementary School, Greenbelt, Maryland, photographed by Cowtools on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/cowtools/396824926/ ]

Some background reading can be had here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_welfare_clause#United_States
I will be citing passages from the book ~View of the Constitution of the United States~ (1999) by George Tucker.

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Are you living, or does life happen to you? Answering the question cannot help but to bring in one's philosophy (Jan. 6, 2019 (https://www.meetup.com/The-San-Diego-Philosophers-Roundtable/events/zjdxnqyzcbjb/)).

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This meeting is for anyone to report on his findings in practicing philosophy. What applications of the general science have (or haven't) worked? What impractical consequences have resulted from errors? What further inquiries need to be done from the discovered implications? Share your evaluation of the practices in relation to that work-in-progress that is your life.

Post the topics you want to discuss in the comments section.