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Please stop using the term “immigrant” to describe these people. They are invaders, illegal aliens, felons. They are not legally present in the country. Thank you.
Catholic Charities does nothing to help homeless Americans, those devastated by the people they help resettle, or even those within its own faith, yet continues to facilitate this invasion for taxpayer money? Perhaps Americans should file complaints with the IRS against the Catholic Church and all churches currently receiving taxpayer money for this activity.
I have to give Kudos to Ann Corcoran at Refugee Resettlement, the original voice against these practices who did much to educate Americans about the activities of our own government in undermining our country’s fiscal health, safety and security. One of the things I learned about these types of contracts was the requirement that these “churches” also provide funding from their own sources at a certain percentage, say 50%. None of these contracts were ever intended to be financed 100% by the American people.
The American people might do well to remember one of Davy Crockett’s speeches he gave in the House of Representatives regarding a widow who lost her husband, a distinguished Naval officer. The widow was asking Congress for a small pension. Representative Crockett, noting his “respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the suffering of the living”, we should not allow our feelings “to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.” While he greatly opposed public expenditures out of feelings for the unfortunate, he did make exceptions, but maintained a strong opinion that federal funds “were not ours to give.” My, how far Americans have fallen from such lofty sentiments. Or are we just being demagogued? Perhaps both.
Thank you for that insight, that’s a very interesting piece of history. Even before the wise Davy Crockett, in 1794 James Madison spoke out against such practices as government-sponsored charitable giving. “The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.”
Truly, our forebears were wiser and more prudent than we are. That we find ourselves with a $33 trillion debt, growing by multiples of trillions annually, ought to give pause to Americans, and I do believe a percentage of them are frightened. However, panem et circenses is the guiding principle of the American people today. Instead of “E Pluribus Unum”, we should change to “Gimme Gimme Gimme”. The facts are that government is never in a position to be “charitable” for that is a black hole which attracts the undeserving poor as well as deserving poor and churches until recently, used to be able to distinguish between the two.
Thank you for your insightful and, I’m afraid, prescient words. I believe Madison was one of our most brilliant and wise Founders. I’m afraid Americans have become too wealthy, with too little ability to handle our good fortunes wisely. Of course, there is nothing inherently wrong with wealth, but it must be accompanied by wisdom sufficient to lead us in the right direction. Our leaders (both political and economic) do not seem to understand the simple truism that we cannot have a welfare state and then invite the world to the party. Thus, I often feel as if I live in Tijuana, thanks to the foreigners running Sacramento.
Ah, Milton Friedman comes to mind and his many warnings about borders and entitlements! The very word “entitlement” ought to be distasteful to any American.