When God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, they had everything available to sustain life. Food was abundant just by gathering it. They were commanded to not eat of the fruit of a certain tree. They did so and were required to leave their “paradise”. They then were given commandments to live to determine if they would learn to be like God and be ready to live in his presence after their physical death. They were also told that they would eat bread by “the sweat of thy face”. This meant they would have to work to provide their own food and necessities. This command to eat bread by their own hard work was meant to apply to all of Adam and Eve’s descendants. That is you and me.
There are millions of people who ignore God’s Commandments and want to have all their needs provided by the sweat of someone other than themselves. There are thieves who rob and steal to sustain themselves. Many will band together in a gang to prey on others. In many of our large cities the elected officials do not even pretend to put a stop to their lawlessness. They want the thieves to vote for them. The gangs have no moral constraints about harming others and are even willing to kill in their craft. Their enablers are big city politicians. Both the thieves and the politicians should be in prison. Any attempt to bring the above to justice brings a fierce defense from the Democrat Party.
There are thousands involved in identify theft, stealing millions from hard working citizens in the U.S. Our politicians who are supposed to protect us from abuse either do not care or have no clue what to do about it. We are too tolerant of incompetent elected officials.
Then we as citizens support a welfare state with few complaints. We should be voting politicians who are welfare state enablers out of office. It is getting to the point where the drones are outnumbering the worker bees. The enablers keep saying the rich need to share their money with the drones. If we confiscate all the wealth of the rich, we would just have more drones lining up for more handouts. Then there would be no rich to support them and that means you and me will support them. Our welfare system gives out benefits and money with nothing asked in return. Any welfare benefits should be tied to recipients preparing themselves to become self supporting. There may be people who cannot do any work, but I suspect that is the exception. I read that there are over one million people in New York City who are on welfare. When a free lunch is available more show up.
Then we have the plague of street beggars. At every stop light there are people begging for money with signs that they are homeless, veterans or hungry. On a few streets I see signs that ask us not to give money to people on the streets because the county has services for the needy. So what is happening is the beggars are getting welfare benefits and then going out to the streets to victimize gullible people. Many of our citizens have become enablers supporting fraudsters.
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