Obama Blaming McCain for Iowa’s Levees Breaking

Looking back at McCain’s opposition to earmarks, Barack Obama is trying to show that the floods in Iowa wouldn’t have happened if John McCain hadn’t blocked federal money for improving the levees:

Just the other day, Senator McCain traveled to Iowa to express his sympathies for the victims of the recent flooding. I’m sure they appreciated the sentiment, but they probably would have appreciated it more if he hadn’t opposed legislation to fund levees and flood control programs, which he seems to consider pork.

Looking back in time, it seems that this so-called Constitutional scholar would realize that the Founding Fathers never intended to have federal money paying for anything like levees and flood control programs. They intended for the states to pay for it. Madison didn’t even want money going to pay for roads or schools:

“If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands;
they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision of the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress…. Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America.”

John McCain was right on this one. Barack the socialist is wrong again. But way to capitalism on the misery and misfortune of others to win an election.