Guest Post by Ron Paul
Last week Congress passed a continuing resolution and then adjourned until after the election. When Congress reconvenes, it will almost certainly pass a multi-billion dollars aid package for those impacted by Hurricane Ian. This spending will likely be labeled “emergency,” so Congress members will not even have to pretend they are offsetting the new spending with cuts in other, lower priority programs.
The failure of Congress to offset spending on disaster relief with cuts in other programs is one reason why I always voted against disaster aid when I was in Congress, even when the spending was for disasters that occurred in my district. Of course, I also opposed these bills because disaster relief is unconstitutional and immoral as are all other income redistribution programs.
When I voted against disaster relief, my office would receive angry calls from constituents. However, within several months many of those constituents would call back to say that after dealing with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) they realized that disaster victims would be better off without federal “help.”
Federally managed disaster relief is neither efficient nor compassionate. My office often heard from frustrated individuals whose plans to rebuild were put on hold because of delays in getting federal assistance.
My staff and I heard many horror stories of FEMA mistreating disaster victims. For example, FEMA was supposed to put a tarp on a house whose roof was destroyed in Hurricane Ike, but it put the tarp on the house next door, even though that house’s roof was fine. When the owner of the house that needed a tarp called FEMA, he was told it would be several weeks before FEMA could send someone out to correct FEMA’s mistake. The homeowner told FEMA that he would move the tarp himself with assistance of his neighbors. FEMA told him that anyone who touched the tarp without FEMA’s approval would be fined and maybe thrown in jail.
In the days following a hurricane, my staff and I also heard complaints from people about how government officials were preventing them from entering their own property. Of course, these restrictions were all claimed to be “for the people’s own good.”
FEMA’s failures are the inevitable result of placing authority over disaster relief in a large, centralized bureaucracy. Therefore, the problem cannot be fixed by changing personnel or updating or streamlining FEMA’s procedures. Instead, FEMA should be abolished, and responsibility for disaster relief should be returned to individuals, local communities, and civic and charitable organizations. Individuals should be able to deduct from their income taxes 100 percent of the costs of recovering from a natural disaster. Businesses affected by a natural disaster should also be provided generous tax relief. Tax-free savings accounts could help Americans accumulate funds for use in the event of a natural disaster.
In 1900, a major hurricane devastated Galveston, Texas. Despite the fact that FEMA or other federal disaster relief programs did not then exist, the people of Galveston managed to rebuild their city. This proves that there is no justification for federal involvement in disaster recovery. The federal government should return responsibility for disaster relief to the people by shutting down FEMA. Congress should also ensure people have the resources to take care of themselves by ending the welfare-warfare state, repealing the 16th Amendment and the associated income tax, and auditing then ending the Federal Reserve.
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“…disaster relief is unconstitutional and immoral as are all other income redistribution programs.”
The first time that disaster relief was proposed in Congress, it was for a recent widow & children of a man well-known to the congressmen whose house had just burned to the ground. Davy Crockett stood up and gave quite a rant. The main point was that this is NOT YOUR MONEY. The money that the people have entrusted congress with should be spent with the utmost care.
I don’t remember the whole story, but boy was it a good one. They took up a private donation for the widow. We read this story in my son’s homeschool history book.
The story of Davy Crockett and Farmer Bunce….
Not Yours To Give
Davy Crockett on The Role Of Government
https://hushmoney.org/Davy_Crockett_Farmer_Bunce.htm
Thank you for finding that B_MC, I couldn’t remember the details but I have never forgotten the main point.
Weather modification is .gov’s hamburger helper to nature’s weather, benefitting . . . .gov.
EVERY HORROR we face as a species was either created or worsened by by the actions of government. EVERY ONE.
Disaster relief gives people license to live in disaster prone areas such as flood plains, coastal zones, swamps, beach fronts, etc. Perhaps builders would exercise more discretion if federally backed flood insurance and relief funds were not available.
Federal $ in general seems to create moral hazards of all sorts.
Love of money is the root of all evil.
Spendthrift government, as observed by Mr. Paul, has become so obvious that even PCR dares to touch the third rail.
It appears PCR has applied the label of ‘jews’ to a settlement in central Europe that accepted the religion because it was compatible with their goal of national oppression. Ref. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/09/29/are-jews-again-driving-the-western-world-into-a-fatal-war/. Their infiltration of the U.S. government which PCR [briefly] identifies is the same infiltration of Germany that Bismark allowed after 1880’s. Hitler capitalized on German resentment to the jew exploitation/oppression, which prevented Germans from employment in any controlled profession or business ownership, as his political agenda. It appears a similar oppression is identified by PCR and has been imposed upon the U.S. society over the past century.
The unconstitutional actions of the FBI [including the seizure of $86 million from vaults, ref. https://www.brighteon.com/4825ce10-1d29-4c68-aa76-a502ca468a2d%5D , the IRS, the CIA, the CDC, the NIH, the military, and others are tolerated by Congress. If congress is not motivated to “right the wrongs to which we have become accustomed,” perhaps the state governors, AG’s, or sheriffs authorized to challenge federal actions may become recalcitrant, I don’t believe they could be labeled insurrectionists and jailed without trial as terrorists. LONG LIVE THE MAGNA CARTA !!!
The chaos of the USA society, and the government corruption, along with globalist Great Reset oppression, are submitted to be instigated and funded by two U.S. methods of questioned legality.
One issue the government does not want discussed is the income tax. The statute that imposed an income tax on Sovereign Citizens was deliberately altered from the 1939 IRS Title 26, Section 1, in the rewriting of 1954–without change. They realized the unconstitutionality of the tax. Without a statute that imposes the tax, an identified violation [which is necessary for valid process] can never be pled. If the responsibility/ statute is not before the court as an issue in the indictment, the court can never rule it unconstitutional. Tricks of the trade. All such indictments appear to be invalid. [NOTE: Income tax indictments suggest violation of statutes ##7201-7215 which have been applied to gambling, horse racing, admission and other taxes. They cannot identify responsibility for an income tax.]
First: An Income tax on Sovereign Citizens is not consistent with Constitutional authorization nor does statutory authorization for such a tax exist. Ref. https://stateofthenation.co… THE INCOME TAX SCAM & 87,000 ARMED IRS AGENTS |
Second: The Federal Reserve system covertly transfers ‘profit’ derived from auctions of Treasury securities to unknown shareholders. All profit of the Rothschild’s Fed legally belongs to the government. The relevant accounts have never been audited. Ref.
THIS IS OUR BANKING SYSTEM
Both methods involve financiers – BEYOND GOVERNMENT – who are the chief beneficiaries.
As is being proven every day, if you do not attack the funding of corrupt bureaucrats, their civil disturbances, and their Great Reset/globalism/war mongering, they will create legions of new programs and corrupt bureaucrats which will replace the old exposed ones.
The nefarious funding of corrupt politicians and Great Reset must be exposed. Far-right legislation is an essential step but not the final solution. Civil disturbances are created by globalists to distract attention from the real action.
Psychopathic globalists ignore any concern they might die in a nuclear conflict.