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August31, 2012
WE GET LETTERS Hugs and Kisses --
Sticks and Stones
By: Chuck-JOHNEL
M.B. B. on April 31, 2012. (Quote) "Dear Brother Chuck-JOHNEL, Is it wrong to accept Social Security, Working Men's Compensation, unemployment, Medicare, Medicaid, any and all welfare programs, and the Affordable I Iealth Care? All of them are either socialist programs or derived from that mind-set. Are they anti-God programs? Perhaps it is the Will of God to condescend to a corporate America, and be governed by a robber-baron mentality around the 1900's. Your thoughts?" (Unquote) R pI y.L hy OHNEL: Social Security is a fund you pay into as you work, check by check -
it is your money you are getting back. Work Men Comp is , f itnded by your employer not the government. Medicare is also money drawn , from your paycheck - it is your • money again. Medicaid is p r obably one o f those government funded operations although the States seen to bear the main duty to pay . for- it. Up until the 1960s, people in need were cared for • by the churches and by Christian brethren. The gover-nnzent displaced the church in the 1960's and took their place. Today, given the slate of the church, I wonder if it could do anything like meeting the needs of those in need as it did prior to the 1960s. Here and there we see examples of where the church is vital and rises to the need. Hurricane Katrina is a perfect example of that. It too/c the federal government three days to start getting help to people in trouble in the flood waters, but church groups, the Red Cross, were down there helping out within hours of the hurricane ending. One of the main problems people had, who were trapped in the Katrina disaster, was that they were so dependent on the government to help them they had no ' se1 f-help skills" at