Minister's Column; Reward Without Work

A few days ago, I found myself in the midst of a discussion about the widespread greed “nowadays.”

One person said, “Everyone wants benefits but no one wants to work.”

Much agreement with this lamentable observation followed.

This was a casual moment, not an evening’s serious pooling of knowledge and sober appraisal of the current state of our national situation, so I didn’t jump in with facts or points of view to the contrary.

Afterward I was thinking about the reality that, yes, we do hear of a few people who want to receive public funds, “welfare,” because they don’t want to work.

Many peop...