MICHDAD1
08-25-2009, 08:48 AM
http://www.juntosociety.com/patriotism/inytg.html
For those of you who believe that Obamacare is a "Right" it would be wise to read what U.S. Representative from Tennessee Davy Crockett had to say about government welfare.
I especially like these quotes:
One day in the House of Representatives a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The Speaker was just about to put the question when Crockett arose:
"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 not the power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. 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. "
"I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week's pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks."
" 'It is not the amount, Colonel, that I complain of; it is the principle. In the first place, the government ought to have in the Treasury no more than enough for its legitimate purposes"
"The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man,"
"So you see, that while you are contributing to relieve one, you are drawing it from thousands who are even worse off than he."
"If you have the right to give to one, you have the right to give to all; and, as the Constitution neither defines charity nor stipulates the amount, you are at liberty to give to any and everything which you may believe,"
"You will very easily perceive what a wide door this would open for fraud and corruption and favoritism, on the one hand, and for robbing the people on the other."
"Congress has no right to give charity. Individual members may give as much of their own money as they please, but they have no right to touch a dollar of the public money for that purpose."
And here's the kicker:
"The congressmen chose to keep their own money, which, if reports be true, some of them spend not very creditably; and the people about Washington, no doubt, applauded you for relieving them from the necessity of giving by giving what was not yours to give. The people have delegated to Congress, by the Constitution, the power to do certain things. To do these, it is authorized to collect and pay moneys, and for nothing else. Everything beyond this is usurpation, and a violation of the Constitution."
For those of you who believe that Obamacare is a "Right" it would be wise to read what U.S. Representative from Tennessee Davy Crockett had to say about government welfare.
I especially like these quotes:
One day in the House of Representatives a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The Speaker was just about to put the question when Crockett arose:
"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 not the power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. 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. "
"I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week's pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks."
" 'It is not the amount, Colonel, that I complain of; it is the principle. In the first place, the government ought to have in the Treasury no more than enough for its legitimate purposes"
"The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man,"
"So you see, that while you are contributing to relieve one, you are drawing it from thousands who are even worse off than he."
"If you have the right to give to one, you have the right to give to all; and, as the Constitution neither defines charity nor stipulates the amount, you are at liberty to give to any and everything which you may believe,"
"You will very easily perceive what a wide door this would open for fraud and corruption and favoritism, on the one hand, and for robbing the people on the other."
"Congress has no right to give charity. Individual members may give as much of their own money as they please, but they have no right to touch a dollar of the public money for that purpose."
And here's the kicker:
"The congressmen chose to keep their own money, which, if reports be true, some of them spend not very creditably; and the people about Washington, no doubt, applauded you for relieving them from the necessity of giving by giving what was not yours to give. The people have delegated to Congress, by the Constitution, the power to do certain things. To do these, it is authorized to collect and pay moneys, and for nothing else. Everything beyond this is usurpation, and a violation of the Constitution."