Government Aid: is it Successful?: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:00 We thank you for coming, taking your time to expose bad choices so we can make better choices, and hopefully the best choices. Today we’re going to ask this question: is the United States government aid successful? Is it really the best choice? So we’re going to go back and think on past political promises. Liberal Democrat Roosevelt’s New Deal, which encompass three parts: relief for the unemployed and the poor, recovery from the economy, and reform so it never happens again, 1932, and it didn’t work. Uh, the liberal Democrat Lyndon Johnson’s 1960 Great Society, War on Poverty, Medicaid, Medicare, is going to annihilate poverty [unclear].

▶ 1:01 Republican President Hoover, conservative Republican President Hoover, in 1930 said he was going to change the unemployment rate and help the poor, and he started building the Hoover Dam, the stimulus to get the economy going, and that didn’t work. So think on these facts for a moment. There have been 49 economic recessions, panics or depressions since 1776, or one in every five years. The results, of course, were increased unemployment and increased poverty. Deuteronomy 5:11- 15:11 says the poor will never cease out of the land. Now, if God, the Bible, is true, they’re giving us promises they really can live up to. Now think on this: the government parties promising to fix poverty and unemployment are the same government parties that did not prevent it, and most of the time they caused it. And think on this: James Madison, founding father, “Charity is no part of the legislative duty of government,” a federal government. Ben Franklin: “The best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading them out of it.”

▶ 2:28 Now, I’m going to give you some things for your consideration about government aid. Before the New Deal, before the War on Poverty, financial relief for the poor and unemployed was the responsibility of families, private charities, churches and local governments, who got the money from property taxes to help the poor. But the poor had to work to get that money, if they could work. So consider this: before the New Deal, unwed versus unplanned births were nine percent. Before the War on Poverty they had moved up to 10 percent. Today unplanned births are over 40 percent of births.

▶ 3:22 Now consider this: before the New Deal, 91 percent were married. Before the War on Poverty, 89 percent were married; they’ve dropped down a couple of percentages, according to the Census Bureau. Today less than 50 percent of Americans are getting married. Now consider this: before the New Deal, child poverty was 20 percent, and before the War on Poverty it was still 20 percent. According to the USA Today, this year, 2014, child poverty now is 23 percent. Obviously this War on Poverty has not accomplish what they said they would do.

▶ 4:18 Now consider this: child poverty in a single family home today, 60 to 71 percent live in poverty, dependent on the survey that you accept. So a child that is brought up in a single-parent home has a 71 percent chance of growing up in poverty. But consider this: child poverty rate in a married household today is nine percent. Even though less than 50 percent are getting married, the poverty rate in a married household is nine percent. Now consider this: child poverty of high school dropouts, whether they are married or not married, is 83 percent.

▶ 5:17 So if you are the child of a high school dropout, you have a 83 percent chance of growing up in poverty. But those who have a college degree or a job skill, a tech degree, and they are married, poverty is only 1.8 percent of this group. Hmm. That’s the Heritage Foundation and the Bureau of Census. So the conclusion of this consideration about government aid: marriage and training for a job skill is winning the poverty war without government aid. Consider this also, that tax is saved from the government handling aid; it leaves you more money to help your family and those poor in your family. And giving most people, most poor folks, a hand up rather than a handout brings them out of poverty.

▶ 6:30 You see, evidently the War on Poverty has distracted us from marriage, education, job skill and responsibility to take care of ourselves and take care of our family and avoid poverty. So we need to give people a hand up instead of a handout and lead them out of poverty. United States government aid did raise the poverty living standard. According to the Census Bureau, over 93 percent have a TV, a recorder, a fridge, a stove, washer, dryer, microwave, Xbox, adequate food and clothing; eighty percent have air conditioning; 81 percent have cell phones; 75 percent have one car or more; 66 percent have cable and satellite TV service; 58 have more than one computer and one or more computers; and 42 percent own their own homes. It doesn’t sound like very poverty to me. But when you look at the homeless out on the street, 633,782 adults and 1.3 million youths out on the street, that is poverty. They have nowhere to live, they have no way of making money, and our government has not solved that problem with their War on Poverty.

▶ 8:03 So let’s look at the Bible for some solutions to poverty, and also you’re going to find solutions to illegal immigrants, and these solutions. Number one, family. First Timothy 5:8: if anyone fails to provide for himself, especially his own family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. So the front-line weapon on God’s war on poverty is the family takes care of family. Number two, in the Bible you have to work for your financial aid or your food aid. Leviticus 19:10, the poor had to go into the field and glean what the harvesters dropped or left, but they had to work for it. Exodus 23:11: in the seventh year farmers could not harvest, so the orchards and the, what grew in the field, the poor could go in and harvest it themselves.

▶ 9:12 Which, God is telling us we need to help the poor, and he’s telling us also that the poor need to work for that help, in Leviticus 23:22. You could go into any field and eat all you want anytime, but you couldn’t carry anything out with you; that’s in Deuteronomy 23, verses 24. And in Matthew 12:1 Jesus used this. He went into the field and grab wheat, corn kernels, that’s tough to eat, and they accused him of working on the Sabbath because he took grain and ate it, according to the Scriptures.

▶ 9:56 Uh, Luke 16:3 gives our first condition of the poor: the servant [unclear] cheated his master and he got fired, and he was ashamed to beg. In 18:35, the bl- blind man, who was created with a handicap and was poor, he went out and begged. The poverty family: much food is in the tillage of the poor. Here is a family that’s working and they have food, but they’re just not rich like some people are rich, in Proverbs 13:23. That is the third condition of poor, and probably the most popular one. And the fourth one is ruin comes through bad judgment. People make bad judgments, or injustice, where people come and steal from them, and it keeps them poor. Second Thessalonians 3:10, the New Testament backs up this work ethic.

▶ 10:57 So number three is work. If any man doesn’t work, neither should he eat. Work with your own hands so you may lack nothing, First Thessalonians 4:11. So the third principle of God’s solution is work, and work diligently, and work hard, or you shouldn’t eat, and your tummy will drive you to work. Here is the fifth source of poverty: he who has a slack hand, they’re just lazy, becomes poor. They’re show up late, they miss work, when they do work they’re taking a lot of water breaks and doing a lot of yakking and talking. They’re just not productive, they’re just lazy. The sluggard, the lazy person, will not plow by reason of the cold. Here’s our sixth source of poverty, is excuses. They have an excuse: well, you know, I’m born in the wrong neighborhood, the wrong family, uh, whatever, that’s my excuse. And he will beg in the harvest and have nothing. Why? Because the people in Proverbs 20, verse 4, saw what he did, and they wouldn’t give him anything if he begged, because he could have provided for his own self.

▶ 12:10 Numbers 15:16: one law and one custom shall be for you, the citizens of the land, and the immigrant, the stranger. You can’t bring in your own laws, you can’t bring in your own customs; you got to go with the customs and laws of the nation. So aid recipients can clean hotels, they can harvest the farmers’ field, they can mow lawns and clean swimming pools, and in doing that, while they’re getting government aid, they will reduce illegal immigrants, because there won’t be any jobs. These guys that get financial aid will be working. So the Bible advises marry, having a family, being loyal to it, taking care of it, and education, getting a job skill, and working, and you will be financially successful, and you will be 98.2 percent of Americans that will avoid poverty and will never have to have government aid.

▶ 13:20 The Bible confirms these choices, and the Bible declares that these are the best choices. Marry, be loyal to your family, take care of your family, get an education, get a job skill, work hard, and you will be successful, and you will make the best choice on the war of poverty.