Reminds me of today’s Bible reading in Church... in which Jesus asks the man who was sick for 38 years if he wants to be healed.
I have a friend who claims to be a Republican. He doesn’t like the tea parties. He says that every one of the tea partiers will expect the government to subsidize their old and infirm parents in a nursing home, when the time comes. He asked me what I was “willing to give up”. I.e.: what government benefit would I give up, in the name of the tea party philosophy.
This was a few months ago. I still haven’t written back because I alternate between fury and despair. If he would admit he was a Democrat, we’d have a starting point. But how do you argue with a person who claims to be a Republican and yet spouts DNC talking points?
In today’s America, the answer would probably be, “Yeah, as long as it don’t stop my disability payments.”
Well that’s part of it... the other group... the lazy one followed Jesus around for a free lunch (John 6:25-27)