Would Davy have approved of the billions in Federal cash given to the families of the 9/11 disaster?And a GREAT question it is, Paulus Invictus!
(No flames please, it's just a question).
From the original "Not Yours to Give" article that we are attempting to authenticate here, the answer would SEEM to be that Col. Crockett's response to any proposal to appropriate FEDERAL money for the victims of 9/11 would be the same, viz:
"...I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the suffering 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 to charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money..."