The Bible says you don’t lend at interest to a poor person, you are to return him his cloak before sundown if you have taken it to secure repayment and you’re too leave the growth of your Sabbath year as food for them.
Why all the anger? Poor people don’t break the law, curse or spit on those who help them. There seems to be more anger at them than at rich people who get away with it.
As though they did something to deserve such treatment.
Forced “charity” is theft.
Free will offerings are not the same as coerced part-time slavery.
If it was up to me, I would have the greatest of scientists develop a paste that contains all essential vitamins, proteins, and minerals, and make it 100% free to anybody who needs it. Nothing more, nothing less
“Why all the anger? Poor people don’t break the law, curse or spit on those who help them. There seems to be more anger at them than at rich people who get away with it.”
My God man, what a reasonable and compassionate take on this issue. It clearly has no place on this thread. Don’t you realize poor people are lowly cretins who only deserve day-old bread and commodity cheese?
The problem is that there is so much wanton abuse of the government welfare system that a large & growing segment of the population are clamoring for an end of the confiscation & waste of their hard-earned monies.
If the poor do not break the law, show appreciation to those who help them, pay back what they borrow, and work hard to make do with the basics they are given freely (harvesting leftover grain in the fields, cooking with “WIC” staple foods), then yes we will be supportive of such a system and do what we can to care for them.
But when the all-too-common reality is sloth rewarded with lobster tails & precooked dinners, while those actually paying make do with a-buck-a-plate meals, then yeah there’s going to be an angry outcry.