What are we doing? Are we extending a helping hand to people when they reach a "rough patch" in the road? Or, are we making them dependent on government handouts for life? And if that is the case, is that the compassionate thing to do?
In this story from the NY Times, the caption to the picture above reads in part, "patrons line up for opening of food pantry". How often do they do this? Why don't they spend all that time working and earning the money to buy food?
The ethic in earlier times toward handouts and assistance was one of only taking it as a last resort. Now, as this story points out, we have advocacy groups pushing assistance programs on citizens in every language possible, pushing assistance programs on illegal immigrants, and even on prisoners about to be released from jail. Of course, it's big business for the advocacy groups who get grants for doing this sort of thing. In other words, it's Big Government keeping a growing segment of the population dependent on Government handouts. This destroys initiative and it destroys self-esteem, and it destroys lives.
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