Do You Believe in Helping the Poor or Enabling the Lazy?

Question by RLP THE QUEEN OF HEARTS: Do you believe in helping the poor or enabling the lazy?
Do you believe in…
* Temporary help while someone is down on their luck
* Job training and education “assistance”
* Requiring all able bodied people to work and contribute to society

OR do you believe in…
* Generational welfare (they need us – they can’t do it alone)
* Rewarding bad behavior such as drug abuse with social security disability
* Requiring someone to work for their welfare check is akin to slavery (that was in a Milwaukee Journal article las year)

Best answer:

Answer by open4one
I believe in “voluntary” assistance to the (poor/disadvantaged/undereducated/displaced/etc).

If a person wants to give their own money blindly, that’s okay with me, but I don’t want government programs using confiscated/stolen money to do anything, noble or otherwise.

If we do presume that we are all “our brother’s keepers”, I doubt seriously that Saint Peter will be impressed by our asserting our holiness because of a lifetime paying taxes.

Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!

 


 

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