We're All to Blame . . .

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Today's Americans have little appreciation for how their values reflect a contempt for those of our Founding Fathers.

You ask, "Williams, what do you mean by such a statement?" In 1794, Congress appropriated $15,000 to help French refugees who had fled from insurrection in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti). James Madison, the "Father of the Constitution," stood on the floor of the House to object, saying, "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article in the federal Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." Most federal spending today is on "objects of benevolence." Madison also said, "Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government."
-Walter Williams

Read on:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/09/walter-e-williams/were-all-to-blame/