The government interceding for those in need on a limited, short-term basis doesn’t bother me in the least. What bothers me is people who put more effort than most jobs require into staying on the welfare rolls and bleeding the system.

I think that your issue with yuppies goes for a lot churches too. How many needs could we be meeting if not for the all important new PA system, fellowship hall (read: gym), and Multimedia system?

I agree with ya in most respects but just don’t think that welfare is the role of Govco. I simply do not like being forced into charity at gunpoint. Private organizations always perform better than Govco, even agencies like the United Way who have such large overhead do things better than Govco ever could.

I agree that most of us don’t know real poverty. I agree that simply cutting back from Kraft shells and cheese to the powder kind if not really poverty.

On another note, it really frustrates me when I see the kind of society we live in when 20 somethings just have to have that huge house, that $300 cell phone and the fancy new car. What happened to saving? What happend to waiting? I know people in thier early 30’s who always seem to have the best of everything, live in these huge homes, go out to eat all the time…and it makes you wonder just how much they give at church. I know..I shouldn’t think that way but sometimes, it just creeps up on you. Are they sacrificing their giving just to have it all now? Seems they HAVE to have the new cell phone, the new washer, the new this or that NOW, not later. I also wonder just how much debt they are saddled with and how much savings they have for emergencies.