Common Sense Commentary: God put muscles on Adam to work with. Then He put Adam in the garden "to dress it and keep it". Gen.2:15. All this before the curse of sin made work hard ... "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground...." Gen.3:19. We were created to work and pay our own way in the world. Work is honorable, no matter how menial it may seem to some, who will not work and laugh at those who do. It is a human weakness, to sin, which causes people to want someone else to take care of them and pay their way so they don't have to labor and sweat to pay their own way. Laziness is a common human failure. We are all subject to this sin if we do not have strong character, high principles, and personal pride to force ourselves to work hard and not quit. It is not just Christians who work hard to pay their own way. In fact, some Christians are too lazy to work. When a person loses their personal pride in paying their own way, because it is too hard, their character is diminished and they fall into the habit of looking for the easy way out... a benefactor who will give them money or food for something in return .... their vote, their sexual favors, their love or loyalty. Some choose to steal from others who have worked and earned their money. Some conspire to deceive, lie or trick others out of their hard earned money. A nation, a people of honor, must make laws and rules, for their society to live by, which forces everyone, children, youth, adults, old people, handicapped people, everyone to work at something, to the limit of their abilities to do so. In the case of those who are totally unable to care for themselves, then it is up to their parents or husband or wife or their older children or neighbors or the church, and in some cases, when relatives or the churches won't help, the government. But almost everyone can do something to help support themselves. Very few people are totally disabled. It is a matter of integrity to do all we can to support ourselves, even if all we can do is pray for and show appreciation to our caregivers. This, however, is no longer the case in our Socialistic country. The more money made available by government to help the supposed needy, the more the numbers, of those who say they are needy, grow. It is like a narcotic. When money or food is offered, human nature is such that everybody wants something for nothing and the addiction spreads. The number of people in the U.S. who are hooked of federal support increases by a huge number every year. God knows every human weakness and tendency to sin and laid down some strong rules about this human problem. It is recorded in 2Thess.3:10-12. " For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread." The key words in those verses are, "would not work", which means it was not a physical problem but an unwillingness to work. Other key words are, "disorderly" and "they are busybodies". These are not cases of disability but of unwillingness to do the right thing which leads to having too much time on their hands to do the wrong things, which is sin. Even a child can help clean up his own room, do homework, get something for dad, and learn to keep a sweet spirit. Most old people can babysit or cook or clean or something, unless they are totally disabled.
Here is a short article on this subject:
CNSNews.com) – The number of Americans receiving subsidized food assistance from the federal government has risen to 101 million, representing roughly a third of the U.S. population.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that a total of 101,000,000 people currently participate in at least one of the 15 food programs offered by the agency, at a cost of $114 billion in fiscal year 2012.
That means the number of Americans receiving food assistance has surpassed the number of full-time private sector workers in the U.S.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), there were 97,180,000 full-time private sector workers in 2012.
The population of the U.S. is 316.2 million people, meaning nearly a third of Americans receive food aid from the government.
Of the 101 million receiving food benefits, a record 47 million Americans participated in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps. The USDA describes SNAP as the “largest program in the domestic hunger safety net.”
The USDA says the number of Americans on food stamps is a “historically high figure that has risen with the economic downturn.”
SNAP has a monthly average of 46.7 million participants, or 22.5 million households. Food stamps alone had a budget of $88.6 billion in FY 2012.
The USDA also offers nutrition assistance for pregnant women, school children and seniors.
The National School Lunch program provides 32 million students with low-cost or no-cost meals daily; 10.6 million participate in the School Breakfast Program; and 8.9 million receive benefits from the Woman, Infants and Children (WIC) program each month, the latter designed for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women, as well as children younger than 5 years old.
In addition, 3.3 million children at day care centers receive snacks through the Child and Adult Care Food Program.
There’s also a Special Milk Program for schools and a Summer Food Service Program, through which 2.3 million children received aid in July 2011 during summer vacation.
At farmer’s markets, 864,000 seniors receive benefits to purchase food and 1.9 million women and children use coupons from the program.
A “potential for overlap” exists with the many food programs offered by the USDA, allowing participants to have more than their daily food needs subsidized completely by the federal government.
According to a July 3 audit by the Inspector General, the USDA’s Food Nutrition Service (FNS) “may be duplicating its efforts by providing participants total benefits in excess of 100 percent of daily nutritional needs when households and/or individuals participate in more than one FNS program simultaneously.”
Food assistance programs are designed to be a “safety net,” the IG said.
“With the growing rate of food insecurity among U.S. households and significant pressures on the Federal budget, it is important to understand how food assistance programs complement one another as a safety net, and how services from these 15 individual programs may be inefficient, due to overlap and duplication,” the audit said.
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Our government is full of contradictions.
Here is a very strange case of Federal Irony:
The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, is proud to be distributing
this year the greatest amount of free Meals and Food
Stamps ever, to 46 million people. They even advertise
to find more willing recipients of federal support.
Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered
by the U.S.Department of the Interior, asks us
"Please Do Not Feed the Animals."Their stated reason
for the policy is because "The animals will grow
dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care
of themselves".This stretches strange to the limits of
opposite directions. RB
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