“I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds. … I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.”
- Grover Cleveland (Democrat), 22nd and 24th US President. During his term as President, the state of Texas was getting its ass kicked by mother-nature in the form of a drought. Congress, in both the House and the Senate, approved a relief effort package of $10,000 dollars, but when it got to the President’s desk, he did some research, and re-read the Constitution, and could not find anywhere, in the all the writings that our forefathers created, anything that allowed him to give other people’s money, so he vetoed it. He felt really bad for the people of Texas, and decided to give them money out of his own pocket instead; he gave $2000 dollars, still $8000 dollars short of the money that the Government was going to send, but asked the people of America for help. The people of Texas ended up with $100,000 dollars in aid. (via thinksquad)
- Grover Cleveland (Democrat), 22nd and 24th US President. During his term as President, the state of Texas was getting its ass kicked by mother-nature in the form of a drought. Congress, in both the House and the Senate, approved a relief effort package of $10,000 dollars, but when it got to the President’s desk, he did some research, and re-read the Constitution, and could not find anywhere, in the all the writings that our forefathers created, anything that allowed him to give other people’s money, so he vetoed it. He felt really bad for the people of Texas, and decided to give them money out of his own pocket instead; he gave $2000 dollars, still $8000 dollars short of the money that the Government was going to send, but asked the people of America for help. The people of Texas ended up with $100,000 dollars in aid. (via thinksquad)