Welfare Is Ruining America
Our present administration has promised freedom to the
people. Those who think they have been promised freedom, consider it freedom to
be completely dependent on the government for everything, when in fact it is
bondage.
Our government has managed to convince a large segment of
our people that freedom means "getting free stuff", such as Obama
phones, free health care and food stamps.
There is no greater bondage than having to subsist on government
funds with government rules and government oversight. It is no different than a
child living with their parents under constant supervision, monitoring our
every move.
We have been taught the past 30 years a different definition
of freedom, a definition so perverted that many people feel free as long as
they can live in sin while accepting hand outs from a government that takes
money from the hard working citizen to give that same money away to lazy,
whining and immoral individuals whose focus is only one thing.....themselves.
There is only one solution to this mess, but it is not for
the masses, but for each individual who will decide for themselves to live as
Christ instructed, working hard, accepting no charity but willing to give it
when the need is legitimate.
Too many people are willing to accept freebees, when they
have no need nor do they deserve them.
Our country is neglecting the elderly to give to undeserving
and lazy young people claiming many disabilities that were never considered
disabilities before in our country, many of the things considered disabilities
are difficult but not impossible for holding down a job.
There are difficult and legitimate needs, that must be
considered, however far too many give away programs are providing for those who
could earn their own way, but find it more enjoyable to sponge off of others.
For some reason that I cannot understand, those on the public dole don't feel
as though it is charity to be supported by the government, but would be
embarrassed to accept help from churches and other help organization.
At least the non-governmental organization would have to
screen their applicants more closely, while managing their money much better,
but the money would not come from the pockets of those who are earning their
money unless they wanted to donate.
It is one thing to receive funds from someone who has chosen
to be generous, and quite another to force everyone to donate when they have no
power to evaluate how the money is being used.
1 Thessalonians 4:10-12
"10 for indeed you do practice it toward all the
brethren who are in all Macedonia .
But we urge you, brethren, to excel still more, 11 and to make it your ambition
to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands,
just as we commanded you, 12 so that you will behave properly toward outsiders
and not be in any need."
Often I hear from those receiving government assistance that
they are planning to go to work to earn some money, but it never happens. Part
of the problem is that even believers lack faith that God can give them a job.
They also don't want to take the jobs at the bottom, to work their way up. They
want jobs that they like, they want to enjoy their job. There is fear that if
they don't make it in a job, then it would be harder to get onto welfare again
in the future. Fear a the biggest motivator for those on welfare to stay on
welfare.
The government would do better to use public funds to train
and teach recipients to get off the public dole.
Proverbs 14:23
"23 In all labor there is profit, But mere talk leads
only to poverty."
So many who are on the public assistance, don't want to work
at a job they don't like. We can enjoy every job no matter how menial when we
do it as unto the Lord. We can actually choose to be diligent in our work,
doing our best, displaying excellence even if our job is a washroom attendant.
Our joyful and grateful attitude toward God will allow us to be an asset to our
employer and a pleasure to be around by those who encounter us.
Proverbs 12:11
"11 He who tills his land will have plenty of bread,
But he who pursues worthless things lacks sense."
The government has taken the dignity away from those whom
they have encouraged to remain idle through hand outs.
There is an old saying, "give a man a fish and feed him
for a day, show a man to fish and give him food for a lifetime."
We are not dignifying a man by making him dependent like a
little child, on something he has no control over. However we bring honor and
purpose to a man when we show him he can make his own living, manage his own
money and work his way up the proverbial ladder of success over time.
The fast food mentality of supplying all a man's need
immediately, has discouraged and degraded individuals and our culture as a
whole.
Psalm 90:17 "Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon
us; And confirm for us the work of our hands; Yes, confirm the work of our
hands."
Colossians 3:23 "Whatever you do, do your work
heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men,"
Ephesians 4:28 "He who steals must steal no longer; but
rather he must labor, performing with his own hands what is good, so that he
will have something to share with one who has need."
God will bless the work of the hands of a man who determines
to obey God with his hands. There is dignity, purpose and joy in hard work. Let
us not forget that work was God's invention, even in the garden, the very
beginning of creation the Lord gave the original couple, Adam and Eve work to
do, it fulfills us to accomplish a job, especially if we did our best.
Those who are receiving welfare fraudulently from the
government are stealing not from the government but from all those who worked
hard to earn their own living and have paid into the system.
Ephesians 4:28 "He who steals must steal no longer; but
rather he must labor, performing with his own hands what is good, so that he
will have something to share with one who has need."
I would ask that no one come here to justify themselves, but
take what has been written and go to prayer with it. I have no desire to debate
this nor allow opinions based on emotionalism or hard luck stories. We could
all whine about many things and justify disobedience against God, this forum is
not for this purpose.
If someone is taking money from the government legitimately,
then there should be no guilt over this, those who have put into the system
many years and have lost their job, then they are entitled to unemployment for
a reasonable period of time. There are other instances that are like this, the
worker has payed in and it is time for him to draw back out, then that is also
another matter. This post may not be for you, those who have worked hard all
your lives, have paid your taxes and are now retiring, this post is not for you
either.
