One of the most frightening phrases I’ve heard recently has been ...’the sacred secular’ requirements of government.
Render unto Cesar what belongs to Cesar...and Cesar surely is not sacred...
The difference I see between now and the 1970’s (I was a kid then), my parents ended up on welfare for 6 months. It was a complete embarrassment to my parents to even have to go apply for foodstamps and that the Church showed up a few days before Thanksgiving that year with a box of food for the poor in the Parish.
The left doesn’t understand that a bit of shame in poverty isn’t a bad thing. My parents taught me we have a moral obligation to work ourselves out of dependency on the community. If you were able-bodied, you went out and found a job. In fact, as summer approached that following year my mother told me if I wanted to buy “new” clothes...I’d have to get a job and pay for them myself! Horrors would be the reaction today to telling a 15 yr. old such a devastating thing. But...from that summer on my parents might be an outfit or two over the course of the year, but I pretty much bought and met my own clothing needs from there on out.
Today the left holds people blameless and irresponsible for their poverty.
The stigma no longer exists which was usually associated with MOOCHING!!! 'MOOCHING' means you can provide for yourself, but would rather be lazy and take what OTHERS have worked for!
Whether you mooch off your family or if you mooch off the community... it's the same.
Today the left holds people blameless and irresponsible for their poverty.
Or their drug use.
Or their abortions.
Or their illegitimate children.
Or their failed marriages.
Or their sexually induced diseases.
Or their poor educational levels.
Or their criminally oriented spawn.
Or their outright laziness.