Maybe he noticed that
1. We already have a huge deficit.
2. Nowhere in the Constitution is there an article says the Federales should hand out huge bundles of tax dollars to victims of natural disasters.
The should either buy their insurance or live with consequences.
I'm sorry for (most of) the victims, but that doesn't entitle Congress to mug me (or indenture my daughters) for their sake.
ping. Please pass it around
God help us when it is wrong to have a different opinion.
He gets my vote!
-Representatives with liberal voters get more outraged-
They get the VAPORS. Liberals get the vapors while everyone else is out there doing something. If lefties would leave us alone, I would agree to spend gubmint dollars on smelling salts for all of them.
"Mr. Speaker--I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the suffering of the living, if there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for 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 on 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 to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I ever heard that the government was in arrears to him.
"Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. 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 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."
-Davey Crockett
We need to start a drive to have congress withdraw/undo what ever their pork-laden highway bill, with the 6000 pork projects. We need to tell them that if they are going to spend the money anyway, at least use it for the hurricane victims.
Then when they don't (because we all know that will NEVER happen) we need to know why.
That aid package is over $100,000 per resident!!!!! That's not even counting private donations!!! No wonder he voted no. This is a bloated welfare bill passed only for political gain.
God bless John Hostettler.