We give an unimaginable amount of money, tax payer money to enemies of our way of life and country than we should.
All we get in return is more of the same “death to America” and covert actions designed to defeat us.
This pay to foes won’t be curtailed why should pay for SSI be curtailed?
If it comes to seniors, diasabled and poor Americans or Egytions I prefer paying Americans and the Egytions can go elswhere.
But this is an erroneously limited presentation of the choices, HEPT. How about, “none of the above”?
It comes down to what is Constitutional. The Federal government is not supposed to be in the charity business. It is not supposed to be in the permanent-foreign-aid business (outside the direct interests of national security and defense). The enumerated powers are quite clear and quite limited.
Either we follow the Constitution, or we make it up as we go along. THAT is the choice for which there is no third way. Either we govern ourselves according to the fixed principles of the Constitution, or we end up governed by random shifts of power-grabbing, abusive and exploitative thugs in suits.
In the days of the gravy-train of post-WWII prosperity, it was nice to believe that we could use the Federal government as an apparatus of social compassion and largesse to an ever-expanding number of people (Americans and non-Americans) rattling their tin cups before the legislators in D.C. The more they looked like Tiny Tim, so much the better. (This comforting image was the sop with which the Great Society program was sold and perpetuated. As we all know, the reality of why it was done was not so charming — it was rarely about compassion and almost always about power.)
But the Federal largesse was never Constitutional. We thought at the time that we could afford it, so we ignored its unConstitutionality.
Now, we face the reality like a double-barreled shotgun: this stuff is neither affordable nor Constitutional.
The Federal government is effectively bankrupt. There is no more money.
Maybe, just maybe, those dead white guys who drafted the Constitution knew what they were talking about all along. Maybe, just maybe, a return and radical adherence to the Constitution is the way back to solvency, sanity, and individual liberty … ya think?
