"Mr. Speaker - I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the suffering of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this house, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity.
From the article; Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money.
WowâŚthese two mindsets still exist. All of those with the invisible âVâ on their foreheads pushing for our government to cut the checks, instead of they themselves putting their own money and resources where their mouth is. I guess some things just donât change. Thanks Davey CrockettâŚIâm with you.
Very rarely to you see a National Defense Authorization Act pass on narrow partisan margins.
No.
Generally the NDAA passes unanimously or with extremely broad bipartisan support.
Both parties are in love with the military-industrial complex and both push for the wars and other â â â â â â â â necessary to justify its existence.
They may differ on WHICH wars and certain details, but at the core, they are all warmongers.
Charity is neighbor helping neighbor. Government social programs are cash for votes, dressed up as caring. And as with any government spending, rife for fraud and abuse.
Hey, hey, heyâŚwe are giving away free weapons, around the world, at our tax payersâ expense, that will have to be paid by babies that havenât even been born yet, so our military industrial complex can resupply and make billions and billions and billionsâŚthen donate some back to those they want reelected and the corrupt circle of life is complete.
And our government is currently working behind the scenes to make it much more difficult for them to leave, is pressuring countries to drop their investor class citizenship.
