Posted on 06/27/2015 10:04:41 AM PDT by grundle
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department will fast track the sending of $29 million to South Carolina to help families of victims of the mass murder of nine churchgoers at a historic black church in Charleston, a Justice Department spokesman said on Friday.
An unspecified portion of the money, allocated under the government's national Crime Victim Assistance Formula Grant program, can be used to provide services to the families of victims of the shootings at Emmanuel AME Church, spokesman Kevin Lewis said.
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I wonder if they did the same for the families at the Ft Hood shooting?
$322,222 per person....that’s a lot of aid.
Under what possible statutory authority does the United States have to give 29 Million taxpayer dollars to the families of 9 crime victims?
Every day 9 black people are killed by black people.
Where is the 29 Million for their families?
How much did this POS administration fast track to the families of the Ft Hood massacre?????????
seems to me they wouldn’t even grant them a line of duty determination for family benefits?
I wish this was satire because I can’t believe it. Just pure reckless insanity!
Ya know, if I had a child, son or daughter, killed by a gangbanger in Chicago I’d be asking Barry Al Louie and Jesse the same incredulous question
do ALL black lives matter.... or not?
Our tax dollars pay victims now? Good grief. Do a voluntary fundraiser. People would give willingly. If is fundamentally wrong to show favoritism to some victims just because you like their skin color better.
This is wrong. Taking money from people by force to grease and appease Obama’s political supporters? It’s evil.
Ditto with Navy Yard victims, the forgotten massacre that happened right outside Barry’s window
12 killed at the Navy Yard, 13 at Ft Hood
wth
3.2 million per family???
For what??
A funeral cost maybe $10,000...
And what authority does the Fed Gov have to do this?
Let me guess; they are doing this so as to get people to criticize the money giving.
Then they can use that criticism to buy votes.
The shootings were horrific; I would have put myself between the shooter and these innocent people had I been there.
But why do the families need to get over $3,000,000 as result from the government???
Simply bizarre...
Un-frikkin-believable.
Hey wait, a squirrel.
It’s in addendum “A” section 2 of the penumbra under “Most Aggrieved Chosen People”.
Precedence? Davy Crockett to Congress :
In response to a proposal for an appropriation to benefit the widow of a naval officer, Rep. Crockett said:
I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the sufferings 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. 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. …
We cannot, without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as a charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much money of our own as we please. 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.
Apparently we are only reimbursing black casualties of the race war (not those killed by random “wilding”); white casualties’ families need not apply...
what. the. hell?!
i guess this is how Obammey intends to start the reparations thing.
Where does the federal government get the authority to spend OUR money on someone else??
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