State officials and FEMA personnel have been inspecting damaged government buildings, roads and other infrastructure in order to qualify for a Presidential Disaster Declaration. These federal funds supplement $750,000 in emergency funds the Governor has already authorized as well as a $1.1 million fund created by the Department of Finance and Administration through a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grant (CDBG). This DFA fund, announced yesterday, will provide disaster relief specifically to low-income New Mexicans and will be overseen by New Mexico Regional Planning Districts throughout the state. 
Inspections have been conducted in the counties of Taos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Bernalillo, Socorro, Sierra, Otero and Lincoln. In addition to widespread natural gas outages across the state, Lincoln County suffered a massive water outage due to frozen water mains in Ruidoso and other communities as temperatures plunged to lower than -30 degrees in some areas of the state. The Pueblos of Taos, Santa Clara, San Felipe, and Santa Ana, as well as the Mescalero Apache Tribe, have also suffered infrastructure damage. The New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management will coordinate all requests for assistance from New Mexico counties and cities once the disaster declaration is approved.
Inspections have been conducted in the counties of Taos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Bernalillo, Socorro, Sierra, Otero and Lincoln. In addition to widespread natural gas outages across the state, Lincoln County suffered a massive water outage due to frozen water mains in Ruidoso and other communities as temperatures plunged to lower than -30 degrees in some areas of the state. The Pueblos of Taos, Santa Clara, San Felipe, and Santa Ana, as well as the Mescalero Apache Tribe, have also suffered infrastructure damage. The New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management will coordinate all requests for assistance from New Mexico counties and cities once the disaster declaration is approved.
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So we violate the Constitution for the United States by participating in an unconstitutional program. The feds take money from one person (taxes) and give it to another in violation of the conditions in the 5th amendment that private property will not be taken for public use but upon just compensation. This same clause disallows the taking of private property for other private use. The people, the government, and the courts recognized that it was illegitimate to take from party A to give to party B. Now it is commonplace and those who participate in these illegal activities are causing the destruction of the country.
The feds have no authority to help individuals or individual states. All federal expenditures are restricted to those which affect the entire country equally, i.e. for the general welfare of the body-politic known as The United States.
There's nothing unconstitutional about applying for federal relief funds as a result of natural disasters...including and especially weather related natural disasters. After all the money that went to Louisiana for Katrina, I think Governor Martinez would be remiss in her job if she didn't apply for relief funds. As for party A taking from Party B, many other parties have been taking federal tax revenues from party NM and disbursing them to Party everyone else for disaster relief events long since party NM received it's last share of federal relief dollars. Furthermore, the federal government has all the authority it needs to assist Americans throughout this great nation with dollars designated to assist for exactly those reasons. Anything said to the contrary is pure nonsense. If the federal disaster relief program was illegal you can be certain an army of serpentine lawyers would be doing everything they could to make a case of it and tap into those resources as a means of compensation for their trouble in pointing it out.
Which clause or clauses?
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