"WE" pay federal taxes to fund the Fed, and Congress set up FEMA for disaster relief. If it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL, you can challenge that premise in court.
I didn't hear your type of complaint when the Fed cleaned up the Twin Towers, or when the Fed cleaned up the rubble after California's last bad quake. Natural causes, or an act of War... disaster management cannot be handled by the State alone. Louisiana and Governor Blanko proved that fact beyond a shadow of a doubt. Haley Barbour was magnificent, but he had plenty of aid from the Fed to handle things properly. It will take a strong alliance of both for success.
"OUR" Nation was founded in Faith. You take GOD out of America, and America will be GODLESS! A GODLESS America will not endure.
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"OUR" Nation was founded in Faith. You take GOD out of America, and America will be GODLESS! A GODLESS America will not endure."
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You God that right. A gold star has been placed next to your name. Bless you.
Get off your insignificant high horse.
I didn't suggest a godless America. I said that the government has no role in charity whether it was a faith based one or a godless one.
Do you think that what ever Congress does is okay? Do you believe that when the SCOTUS confirms something as constitutional, that that is the final word? I guess that you are just fine with Roe v Wade and McCain Feingold and all the gun ban laws then too, right?
Without using emanations from penumbras, show me where the federal government has a legitimate role in charity, in banning guns, or in letting babies be murdered.
As a clue, the man largely responsible for writing the constitution says that he couldn't find any justification for taking from one man to relieve the suffering of another. That has always been and should forever remain the domain of individuals, not government.
You didn't hear complaints? Maybe it was because you closed your ears and mind to them. Maybe it was because many people did want to help relieve the suffering and they send millions of dollars of their own volition to help. Maybe it was because people just didn't want to be seen as uncaring by bringing up a little thing like the Consitution after such devastation and personal tragedy. Whether there were complaints or not, whether they were spoken or not, that still doesn't justify the government doing things that the Constitution does not specifically authorize them to do.
And in my opinion, the fed has no business covering the losses of homes, businesses, or even the lives of those lost in crime, acts or terrorism, or in natural disasters. The way they handed out money after 9/11 and Katrina was nothing short of criminal. It was theft from the rest of the country. The American people donated freely and generously on their own. If they had more of their own money (not confiscated by government through taxation) they would have given even more.