bonnie Posted July 22, 2012 Posted July 22, 2012 Obama vs. God on Work and Welfare By Jan LaRue President Obama produced political tremors last week when he said in Roanoke that individual success comes from government so we need to give back by paying higher taxes. Combined with his executive order allowing states to opt out of requiring work for welfare, it's a 10 on the Richter scale. Contrary to Obama's spinners, he wasn't taken out of context. If it was a gaffe, he got stuck on stupid by repeating, "look, if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own. You didn't get there on your own." His only "gaffe" was revealing his inner socialist. The day before Obama's "you didn't build it" speech, he instructed Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius to allow the states to exempt welfare recipients from work requirements under the bipartisan 1996 welfare reform act, "Temporary Assistance for Needy Families" (TANF), signed into law by then-President Bill Clinton. The exemption is clearly a violation of TANF and other federal statutes. Obama's order is one more of his several infringements of congressional authority. Obama hasn't explained why, since government "built" the welfare system, he's exempting recipients from giving back by working. It makes sense if his goal is fundamentally transforming the United States into a welfare state. It would explain why Obama's Department of Agriculture is pushing more people to sign up for food stamps, which are now handed out to more than 46 million people, a 50 percent increase since 2008. Here's a better idea: In addition to enforcing work requirements on those who are able, condition welfare and unemployment benefits on "paying it forward." As soon as recipients are gainfully employed, require them to begin repaying benefits based on their income level. This won't work, of course, unless the benefits end at some point. Obama tries to justify his progressive agenda with Scripture, such as when he misapplied "my brother's keeper" to support wealth redistribution. He doesn't have a prayer aligning his welfare-without-work order with the Apostle Paul's admonition: "If anyone isn't willing to work, he should not eat" (2 Thessalonians 3:10). Paul, unlike Obama, is consistent with Moses, who required the needy to work for their welfare: "When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap all the way to the edge of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident; I am Yahweh your God" (Leviticus 23:22). Anyone surprised by Obama's speech and welfare order wasn't paying attention when he said in 2008 that by electing him, "we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America." He told "Joe the Plumber" that "when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/07/obama_vs_god_on_work_and_welfare.html#ixzz21N0HOzx9 Quote Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument, or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make, period ... ... Wish more people would realize this. Quotes by Susan Gottesman
LifeHiscost Posted July 22, 2012 Posted July 22, 2012 Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/07/obama_vs_god_on_work_and_welfare.html#ixzz21N0HOzx9 Excellent post, Bonnie. The one(s) I find that go(es) well with your scripture(s) is/are: "Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working."James 5:16 ASV "But when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."John 8:7 ASV "You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye."Matthew 7:5 NKJV "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,"Romans 3:23 NASB I will have to admit I see a much larger impediment than a speck in Obama's eye. But I also have to admit it's sometimes difficult to tell as a result of trying to peer around this log. God blesses! Quote Lift Jesus up!!
bonnie Posted July 22, 2012 Author Posted July 22, 2012 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye."Matthew 7:5 NKJV Quote Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument, or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make, period ... ... Wish more people would realize this. Quotes by Susan Gottesman
LifeHiscost Posted July 23, 2012 Posted July 23, 2012 Quote: "This is not referring to a personal failing of someone.This is referring to the leader of this country deciding when to disregard existing law and replacing it with his own." What we get from the leaders of our country is the natural result that has been continuing since the Israelites chose a king like all the nations around them. This doesn't absolve them of their indiscretions but were we in their place we would fall in the same way. "The idea that one man’s mind and judgment can mold and direct important interests, and that he can be regarded as a voice for the people, is a great evil, and has, and still continues to endanger the one who is placed in a position of responsibility, and those also who cooperate with him. God has not given to any one man all the wisdom, and wisdom will not die with him. Those placed in positions of trust should modestly regard the opinions of others as worthy of respect and likely to be as correct as their own. They should remember that God has made other men just as valuable as they are, and that God is willing to teach and guide these men."—Manuscript 55, 1897 (June 3, 1897, Development of Workers Christian Leadership, Page 37 Underlined mine LHC Much as I admire the conclusions you arrive at, I see them as making effort to shut the barn door after the horse is out. If all that effort in discussion were exercised for finishing the only task that is promised to end the useless meanderings of mankind, we might be closer a day or two to wrapping up what is wrong with this world. "Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells."2 Peter 3:11-13 NKJV God blesses! Quote Lift Jesus up!!
bonnie Posted July 23, 2012 Author Posted July 23, 2012 What we get from the leaders of our country is the natural result that has been continuing since the Israelites chose a king like all the nations around them. This doesn't absolve them of their indiscretions but were we in their place we would fall in the same way. Quote Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument, or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make, period ... ... Wish more people would realize this. Quotes by Susan Gottesman
LifeHiscost Posted July 24, 2012 Posted July 24, 2012 Quote: .Hitler wasn't such a bad guy,everyone of us would fall in the same way. Hitler produced his war machine in the midst of a strong Lutheran Christian community. If that community had behaved according to the profession of disciples of which they espoused, this promise below would have been fulfilled and there would have been no WW2. The same applies today. "This day the Lord will deliver you up into my hands, and I will strike you down and remove your head from you. And I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, and that all this assembly may know that the Lord does not deliver by sword or by spear; for the battle is the Lord’s and He will give you into our hands.” Then it happened when the Philistine rose and came and drew near to meet David, that David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the Philistine."1 Samuel 17:46-48 NASB However I admit I am talking about a people willing to give their time and effort to what God has called them to in this day, and since the majority of (Christian) people on this earth do not believe in a God that will fight for them, He allows them to take up their own meager weapons of war and suffer the end result of fighting their own battle. God blesses! Quote Lift Jesus up!!
bonnie Posted July 24, 2012 Author Posted July 24, 2012 Hitler produced his war machine in the midst of a strong Lutheran Christian community. If that community had behaved according to the profession of disciples of which they espoused, this promise below would have been fulfilled and there would have been no WW2. The same applies today. Quote Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument, or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make, period ... ... Wish more people would realize this. Quotes by Susan Gottesman
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