After reading this AP article, by author Catherine Lucey, regarding the changes to the welfare system that President Trump wants to "reform." This writer's thinking is that this is almost the same mantra as President Lyndon Johnson put forth in his "War on Poverty" legislation back in the 1960's.If we look at past history, the indication is that no one can "reform" welfare (see Mark 14:7), rather we need to promote jobs, putting people back to work, and ultimately do away with the welfare system completely. Even the disabled want to work, because they see the benefits of working.
Quoting Benjamin Franklin: "I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer" (source, and see article).
In the above AP article, President Trump is quoted in October as saying, that welfare was "becoming a very, very big subject, and people are taking advantage of the system." No kidding! (see article).
Folks, dishonest people have been taking advantage of the welfare system for about sixty years (three generations). Not only does a welfare state promote laziness with no incentive to work, but it can cause all kinds of other societal problems as well.
Beloved, we work in order to bless others less fortunate, and they in turn work to bless others (note the spiritual principle in 2 Corinthians 8). And as I wrote in this article, there's no "free lunch."
---Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets
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