The 800 lb gorilla in the room are the non essential personnel used to run a bloated government. I agree.
But it is not constitutional to feed the poor, house, medicate and school the illegal.
Fine. We have social security ingrained. Social security is unconstitutional as well, but I can live with it. For citizens only.
Cut the spending on illegals. Period. Cut spending on benevolent programs in other countries.
Cold hearted? Perhaps. But this is in part, MY MONEY. And I do not choose to give it to third world countries no matter what age the starving are , I do not choose to give it to illegals, or to people who have children they can not afford.
All this benevolent spending belongs to the Church and other benevolent, non governmental agencies. So, the poor feel demeaned by that? They don’t want to have to hear a sermon before their free meal?
I DON’T CARE. Get out of my pocket. I work for a living....battering the poor? I’m battering the government who takes MY MONEY and gives it to deadbeats. I can no longer give to the needy as I see fit, because the government is handing out for votes.
Precisely.
Fine. We have social security ingrained. Social security is unconstitutional as well, but I can live with it. For citizens only.
Agreed, and it should be phased out.
Cut the spending on illegals. Period.
The money spent on them should be spent primarily on repatriation.
Cut spending on benevolent programs in other countries.
More often than not, those funds only establish and maintain the instruments of subjugation of foreign populaces, and do not go to feed the poor there. If it isn't Constitutional to feed our own poor, how can it be said to be Constitutional to feed the poor elsewhere?
It isn't charity if the Government forcefully takes our funds and redistributes them. There's no option to give.
Charity should be in the hands of civic organizations (Churches and others) to which people can freely donate of their goods, services and money. Those organizations don't have an incentive to keep people on the dole, but rather to give them a hand to get out of poverty and become self-sufficient. They also know who is in need and who isn't in a local community, and can better allocate limited resources.
It isn't "cold hearted" to place expectations on those capable of meeting them, to expect those capable of taking care of themselves to do so. It is far more demeaning and damaging to them to instead insist on their protracted dependency.