Well, let's ask some people who aren't alive now, but I wish were (emphasis added by me):

What Would James Madison Do?

"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."

What Would Davy Crockett Do?

"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 so to appropriate a dollar of the public money." Be sure to read the last paragraph, which is probably just as true today.

What Would Franklin Pierce Do?

"I can not find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States. To do so would, in my judgment, be contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and subversive of the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded."

What Would Grover Cleveland Do?

"The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow-citizens in misfortune....Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood."

I absolutely agree. Why doesn't anyone else in the entire federal government? Pandering wimps, the entire lot of them. Well, except for the 11 (of 433) that voted against it: Barton (TX), Flake, Foxx, Garrett (NJ), Hostettler, King (IA), Otter, Paul, Sensenbrenner, Tancredo, Westmoreland

(From David Goodyear, found at Vox Popoli's, in the the comments).

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