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How Welfare has Overstepped Biblical Principles
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How Welfare has Overstepped Biblical Principles
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
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United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
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is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
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Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
As the Great Depression swept through the United States from 1929 to 1933 15 million
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
Americans became unemployed and nearly half of the country's banks failed (Great Depression
History 2009). Towards the end of the Great Depression Franklin Rosevelt took office in 1933
and worked to restore America to its former glory by doing things such as implementing
“enormous work relief programs for the unemployed” (Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021). Amongst
the steps taken to aid those struggling from unemployment, the national welfare system was
established around 1935 (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). With millions of people
living in poverty the national welfare system worked to assist “individuals and families through
health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare
assistance” (Hayes, 2021). Welfare, a once promising economic and social policy aimed at
stopping poverty has now grown to overstep biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness.
After the Great Depression, the implementation of a welfare system was in fact a clever
idea, it allowed millions of families to get back on their feet, decreased poverty significantly, and
helped Americas economy recover (How Welfare Began in the United States n.d.). Although, as
time has progressed the system has become subject to corruption, today nearly half of Americans
who depend on government assistance, such as welfare, do not actually need it (Lucas, 2012).
Indeed, the national welfare system does help those who could truly use it, but in modern times it
is more subject to abuse than anything. Welfare, originally designed to help those in poverty, is
now doing greater harm than help by reducing people's work ethic and enabling unemployment,
ultimately encouraging slothfulness. The economic policy of welfare goes against biblical
principles by firstly feeding the destruction of work ethic. Welfare has shown to destroy work
ethic by replacing self-sufficiency with government dependency (How Welfare Began in the
United States n.d.). For example, a family in poverty plans to use welfare shortly, but realizes
they can get by with and receive welfare for a total of five years, so instead of striving to support
lOMoARcPSD|62152138
their family alone, they depend on the government also. In the Bible hard work is an especially
important principle, Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 10:7 “for the laborer is worthy of his hire,”
meaning those who work shall receive their pay, not those who do not (KJV). Welfare goes
against this by supplying people with funds despite their employment, in this case not those who
actually need it, but free riders who abuse the system and continue to get overlooked (Hazlitt,
2010). The Lord states in Provers 14:23 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty,” making it clear that to make a living you must work for it, not discuss it (KJV).
Another verse, Proverbs 12:24, discusses how hard workers will be blessed and prosper “while
the slothful will be put to forced labor,” welfare opposes this by directly benefiting the slothful.
Moving on, this destruction of the work ethic raises unemployment since people no longer have
an incentive to work. Proverbs 13:4 reads “the soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied,” once again enforcing that those who are lazy
receive nothing, but those who work will prosper, yet welfare allows those who do not work to
receive funds (KJV). Today, In America there are a total of 11 million open jobs and 6.5 million
people unemployed, the only people who should receive government compensation are those
who are truly incapable of making a living for themselves or their family (Bureau of Labor
Statistics 2022). The economic and social policy of welfare has grown to overstep biblical
principles of hard work by destroying both work ethic and employment, ultimately encouraging
slothfulness.
Welfare certainly had its place in the 1930s, contributing greatly to the rehab of America
subsequent to the Great Depression by helping the millions of jobless citizens and restoring hope,
but now it has proven to do more harm than good. Welfare has grown to encourage both poor
work ethics and unemployment by providing citizens with a way to live without contributing to
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society or working at all. With that being said, the economic policy of welfare has overstepped
biblical principles by encouraging slothfulness. Welfare has come to reduce the work ethic and
employment of the average American by providing them with a way of life that does not involve
hard work, overstepping biblical principles that encourage hard work and oppose slothfulness.
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