How about spending is restricted PERIOD??
Patrick Henry's works? Have skimmed through a few here and there. But his words aren't holy writ. But our Constitution and our Bill of Rights are. Perhaps you should take this section to heart when it comes to "compassionate" spending:
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Agreed. I call that Amendment and raise you this: that even each individual state's powers are to be subject to the sovereignty of the Citizens.