Posted on 01/12/2023 9:55:06 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Following the recent passage of the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill by our Congress and the subsequent signing of it into law by our president, details of this massive spending frenzy were provided by Rep. Dan Bishop’s (R-NC) office.
Thankfully, Congressman Bishop and his staff were able to provide citizens of our country with details on the 4,155-page, out-of-control spending bill, highlighting such things as $3 million for “bee-friendly highways,” $50 million to research North Atlantic Right Whales, $410 million to “remain available to Reimburse (“Reimburse”?) Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt Tunisia and Oman for enhanced border security (What?!).”
Simultaneously, we all continue to see ads on television soliciting donations for Tunnels to Towers and for Wounded Warriors.
For those of you reading this who are unaware of these reputable organizations, simply put, they provide support and specialty mortgage-free housing for many of our wounded and disabled former members of our military – our national heroes.
If not for the successful leadership of Frank Siller (Tunnels to Towers) and Mike Linnington (Wounded Warriors), many of our disabled soldiers, sailors, airmen, and their families, would be saddled with unimaginable additional challenges and financial stress throughout the remainder of their lives. Thankfully, these two organizations, in addition to others, exist through the continued support from thousands of private citizens.
So, the question is “Why?” After our Congress and president just spent $1.7 trillion, why do these organizations have to exist at all?
Obviously, the money is there for all sorts of things.
Why do private citizens need to provide this type of support for our disabled heroes? After all, support to these organizations, through monetary donations, is coming from those who are already over-taxed (see the $1.7 trillion tax bill!). Where is the support from our Congress? Where is the support from our president?
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So Sean Hannity can feel good about himself.................
I thought this same thing. Every one of these families should have their financial needs met before giving one penny to foreign aid.
It’s an excellent question. Per Laura Ingraham’s show, we spent $1 billion just to take care of illegal aliens in New York City. Imagine what that money could do to help our wounded veterans.
I think of that after every commercial. We used to have a Veterans Administration and Workers Comp benefits for municipal employees. That’s their job. We pay them to do it.
They should exist. Organizations similar to these have existed at least since WW1. But why do service men and women who are seriously wounded in combat not get have organizations like these funded by taxpayers is a great question. Obviously the Veterans Administration isn’t doing enough and as mentioned they seem to have plenty of money to study whales, gas stoves, the effects of shrimp running on treadmills etc.
Congress and the WH loves to send our heroes off to combat and then treat them poorly when they come home. It’s outrageous. Maybe they live in such cognitive dissonance that they can’t face the real human toll of their decisions.
Because a free society very effectively does the volunteer work that corrupt and unconstitutional government ineffectively tries to commandeer.
Really a stupid question.
The ideal would be government was fiscally responsible and at the same time out of the charity/benefit business. It’s not charity if the money was forcibly confiscated from a taxpayer. Let people fund the causes they see fit.
Though nauseating it seems typical. I just read a history of the American Revolution where a soldier who served six years in the Army, says he received only one month’s pay and was sent home without thanks.
When it comes to the widows getting a mortgage-free house, they are not allowed to be remarried. Statistics show however that most young widows remarry in three years. It just doesn’t make sense. These programs are not needed.
They exist primarily as a means for ex-MacDonalds clerks getting 6-figure salaries...
Because if the government tried it would Cost 5X, take 3 times as long, and serve 70% fewer.
The next obvious question has to be: Why then would anyone join the US Military, at the risk of injury and death, to fight DC deep-state, elitist wars - all while $1.7 Trillion in spending goes to illegals, trannies and oligarchs - and private charity is needed to take care of oneself and one’s family?
We still do. I'm a 100% disabled vet and the VA takes very good care of me. I do not need additional help.
“Because a free society very effectively does the volunteer work that corrupt and unconstitutional government ineffectively tries to commandeer.”
Do the celebrities that appear in the TV commercials for these organizations get paid, or is their time always donated?
Do the companies that run the TV, radio and print ads donate the broadcast and ad space, or are they paid?
Do the ad agencies get paid to produce and place the ads?
What are the administrative costs of these organizations?
Those are not bad questions.
Would be interesting to see an actual accounting of the charitable donation percentage that directly goes to veterans from these $19 a month orgs compared to taxpayer ‘donations’.
They should just go to Mexico and cross the border, pretending to be an illegal. They’d get put up in a nice hotel, free food, cell phones, etc.
Clinton Global Initiative.......Buller, Buller,....
To answer the headline - Wounded Warriors appears to originally set up to enrich the leadership.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/wounded-warrior-projects-top-execs-fired-amid-lavish-spending-scandal
Not sure what its current objectives are.
IMO, the size of the ‘stimulus package’ is in direct relation to deep state estimates of how much it will cost to throw the next several election cycles.
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