Can you spare a dime

On the floor of Congress:

Mr. Speaker - - - - preceding sentences -
I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it.

We have the right, as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity, but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of public money.

Congressman from Tennessee, David Crockett

Sometime prior, Crockett had returned home after helping pass a relief bill for citizens devastated by a fire that caused the loss of homes and property. Crockett got his butt chewed out by a Tennessee citizen who knew the Constitution. He wouldn't make that mistake again.

The bill he opposed failed.
That would make FEMA and a thousand other wasteful bureaucracies unconstitutional.
Too late - we're all victims with outstretched hands: That's how citizens are cuffed.