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For consideration

[GeronL]

You mean spending 70-75% on overhead and bureaucracy on a multitude of different handouts is not biblical?

Unless its the Big Government Bible I guess

[Servant of the Cross]

It is definitely Biblical for charity and the care for the poor to be voluntary, participatory, faith-based, individual and local.

It is also definitively NOT Constitutional for the Government to do so with all these permanent bureaucratic 'programs'.

It has resulted in a permanent dependency and poverty for the people it supposedly helps. Not only does it create permanent poverty for the poor, it is fiscally unsustainable. Therefore, it will ultimately end, one way or another.

[Lazamataz]

Unfortunately, I note that this is in the Religion forum, and because I am much more careful (read: Respectful) here, I cannot comment (at least in my usual fashion).... lol

Tip of the hat and a bow to RMod.

[hosepipe]

The Bibical WAY IS....

Don’t harvest the corners of your fields..
Allow the “poor” to go harvest- thresh- mill- the grain, then cook and eat the corners..
And if they WON’T they can STARVE...

Starving will teach them a lesson and/or maybe clear out the lazy gene pool..
If “society” is lucky.. Brilliant really..

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The democrat way is feed the lazy, punish or be parasitic to the productive..
Standing the Biblical axiom on its head..

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Many republicans are like beasts that understand this on the level of a Chimpanzee..

[DannyTN]

The article picks and chooses it's scripture carefully. I noticed none of the scripture directed at kings or rulers was mentioned.

Jer 22:15 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest [thyself] in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, [and] then [it was] well with him? Jer 22:16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then [it was] well [with him: was] not this to know me? saith the LORD.

The government that fails to look out for the poor is in danger of being replaced. I see no problem managing that locally as long as local jurisdictions can't shirk their duty, which was a common problem in the colonial states.

Dan 4:27 Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.

[ravenwolf]

The religious left further tells us that across-the-board budget cuts will hurt the poor. But how do we define the poor, and who gets to define them?

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The people in government and those connected to the ones in government gets to define them and they define them selves and the other ones as worthless as they are as the poor.

The bible also tells us not to steal but you don,t hear them say anything about that because they are the biggest thieves on this earth.