America Needs A Hand-Up, Not A Handout!

A society has a moral obligation to care for those who cannot care for themselves. Our present welfare system provides care for those who can't, and for many who simply won't. 

Our system needs to be revised to care for those who can't, and prevent those who won't from making a career of welfare. We need to eliminate "welfare as a way of life" except for those who do not have the ability to live any other way.

It is not an indignity for the able-bodied person to have to work for welfare, no matter how menial the task. A handout is not dignified. America needs a hand-up, not a handout.

Any person who is capable of performing a task, and is already being paid, should have work.  Counting paper clips, or delivering mail, or emptying trash are all better than accepting a handout.  Even the Bible says. "...for the laborer is worthy of his wages."

My father taught me that a job was something for which to be proud.  I say that a job is worth working for!  Our country was made great by the people who took pride in their best work, not by anyone who sat back and asked, "What can I get from the government?"

We don't have to formally create a job to provide someone with work, and if we do,  that should change!  Work is change we all can believe in.  Work is the recipe for recovery, even when we are in this deep!  Let's stop counting new job creations and get to work. 

Work as a way of life... What a concept!