Posted on 11/29/2025 5:17:57 PM PST by Morgana
If you doubt that the Democratic Party is hostile to the USA, consider this:
Nearly half of all households with noncitizen parents are accessing federal benefits, a category that includes both legal and illegal immigrants. The Trump administration is trying to end these programs, but Democrats are pushing back.
Democratic attorneys general from 21 states and Washington, D.C., have filed a federal lawsuit challenging new USDA guidance that they say unlawfully restricts legal immigrants’ access to SNAP benefits.
That is, the Democrats ruling these states want to overrule the president so as to enslave US taxpayers to foreigners, a high percentage of whom are in the country illegally and exploit loopholes. To put it mildly, this is unacceptable.
USDA data from fiscal year 2022 shows that 1.465 million noncitizens received SNAP benefits, with an additional 2.2 million children living in households with noncitizens also participating in the program. [… Foreign moochers] collected a total of $4.2 billion in benefits.
Given reproduction rates, these numbers will continue to rise. If Democrats regain power, they will reopen the floodgates and the numbers will achieve the Cloward-Piven objective of using the welfare state to crash the US economy so that communism can be imposed.
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If you sponsor a legal immigrant you have to sign papers agreeing to care for them if they can’t work, for the expressed reason to prevent them from becoming a public charge.
I’ve done this…if some NGO is the sponsor then go after their money.
“Nearly half of all households with noncitizen parents are accessing federal benefits”
I bet it is closer to 90%. Include state and local welfare PLUS THE safety and security provided by the USA, it is 100%. Deport every one of them.
When I brought my wonderful wife home from China, I had to sign a legal, binding document that said I was responsible for taking care of her and her needs. If I didn’t, I would be held responsible for repaying the government if she became a welfare recipient.
Why are LEGAL immigrants even eligible? Wasn’t it the case not so long ago that only US citizens could access the benefits?
And yet we are lectured, ad nauseum, about “systemic racism.”
The Trump administration is trying to end these programs, [such programs facilitated by the post-17th Amendment (17A) ratification Congress's ongoing abuse of its 16th Amendment powers (16A) imo,] but Democrats are pushing back.
There! Fixed it.
While Trump Administration is doing a great job draining the swamp, the main problem with the country is ultimately this imo. Democratic and Republican ordinary voters with way too much voting power (17A; popular voting for federal senators) imo, voters who evidently don’t have a clue about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, keep reelecting the same crook politicians to the federal government, seemingly expecting different results to remedy federal government corruption every time.
In other words, democracy-loving, but misguided voters who have evidently never really studied the fed’s constitutionally limited powers unthinkingly created the unconstitutionally big federal government that is now oppressing everybody under its boots imo.
More specifically, after 16A (direct taxes) and 17A were ratified, crook federal lawmakers eventually discovered that they could promise voters every unconstitutional federal social spending under the sun to try to get themselves elected. Constitutionally naïve voters eventually took the bait and elected these snake oil salespersons, and then reelected them!
Then once in office, thief lawmakers abuse their 16A powers by simply fulfilling their campaign promises for unconstitutional federal spending, wrongly ignoring their constitutional, Article I, Section 8 spending limits by doing so.
Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
“Drunk driving” under the “influence” of 17A comes to mind.
Regarding elite career Democrats and RINOs who promise unconstitutional federal welfare to keep themselves in office, 16A has become the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for organized crime, front-ended by the deep state Congress's ongoing abuse of that amendment imo.
Trump's red tsunami of supporters, evidenced by his record-breaking win in 2024 elections, need to permanently preserve his legacy by making the repeal of 16&17A the main talking point of 2026 elections.
More specifically, Trump supporters need to primary all candidates for state and federal public offices who refuse to publicly promise to support a resolution to the states in January 2027 for a new amendment to the Constitution that repeals that amendment.
16th Amendment: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived [emphasis added], without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States. —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous [all emphases added], (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles. — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
The congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as follows.
Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen [all emphases added], under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country. —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
Consider that a resolution to repeal 16A was introduced as recently as 2021, but was unsurprisingly ignored.
We'll call the repeal amendment Trump's Boston Tea Party II Amendment.
The 17th Amendment, popular voting for federal senators, needs to disappear too.
(Again) Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature. —Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Once unconstitutional federal taxing and spend is stopped, the states will ultimately find a tsunami of new revenues that they probably won't know what to do with imo, healthcare, including taking care of the poor, and education, on the short list of priorities.
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