The US
federal government is dead broke with a National Debt tracking at $22 trillion.
The federal government must stop spending, but that isn’t happening.
Most
federal spending is unconstitutional. The “enumerated powers” of the federal
government have never been legally expanded. Congress simply passed
unconstitutional laws and the courts didn’t stop them. The number of federal
grants have increased from 2 in 1902 to 1,320 in 2017.
Congress actually thought
that part of their job was to return money to their States. It’s a totally
corrupt system. State and Local governments should pay for their own stuff.
Until this is enforced, they will continue to piss away your tax dollars.
In 2018,
the federal government sent $728 billion to States. Medicare was $433 billion,
Child Nutrition $24 billion, disaster relief $20 billion, education for
disadvantaged $16 billion, needy family assistance $16 billion, special
education $13 billion, children’s health $14 billion, family children’s
services (supervision) $11 billion, public transit $10 billion.
Among
the income security programs are temporary cash assistance, employment
services, and school-provided meals. The percentage of grants to states that is
dedicated to income security programs ranged from 18.1 percent in Nebraska to
6.7 percent in Wyoming.
Grants
to states for transportation programs showed a wider range than those for
income security grants. These grants fund programs such as surface
transportation, airport improvements, and Federal Highway Administration
programs. The share of total grant funding represented by transportation was
highest in Alaska (26.2 percent) and lowest in New York (3.5 percent).
There
was a smaller range among states in the percentage of total federal grant
dollars that went to education programs, including Title I, special education,
and career and technical education. These grants accounted for 9.5 percent of
2018 total grant funding in South Dakota but just 3.9 percent in the District
of Columbia.
Health
care grants to states for programs other than Medicaid include funding for
health insurance to children (i.e., the Children’s Health Insurance Program),
access to federally funded health centers, vaccines for children, prevention
and treatment of substance abuse, and access to various HIV/AIDS services.
These grants made up 7.8 percent of all federal grants in Oklahoma and 2.4
percent in Wyoming.
This
category includes funding for a wide range of programs including environmental
protection, funding for crime victims, minerals management, community
development, and job training and employment for dislocated workers. More than
50 percent of the federal grants to Wyoming fell into this category, largely
related to mineral leasing rights to oil and gas extracted from public lands.
In New York, just 1.7 percent of federal grants came from this mix of funding.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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