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You can use the general Welfare clause to mean anything. It was not intended as a means to provide free wifi anymore than the post office was supposed to provide free paper and ink in colonial times.
Dual use roads are fine.
As far as the skies being free. Nope. The FAA is paid for by the airlines and we pay it in the form of higher fares. Look up fuel taxes and ticket taxes. There was a bit of a row about 18 month ago when the tax expired and the airlines pocketed the taxes. It was re-instated a few days later with the 2011 fiscal cliff deal.
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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the engineer adjusts the sails.- William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)
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