[TheRealThing]

If what is at issue is the person who works hard, lives wisely and succeeds vs. the person who, though able, refuses to work preferring government assistance, you'll get no gruff here. However, "you trample on the poor and force him to give you grain," and "Hear this, you who trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land" is also a biblical theme, and not just in Amos. If I have started a company that is floundering, I cannot fret and plead and obssess until a war is started which suddenly sends my company into orbitous profits. But, the power elite can.

I'm sorry to hear that your company is floundering, I hope you do much better soon. However, national defense is the primary responsibility of the federal government and I am grateful for same. If this is a Military-Industrial complex argument not only am I not interested in pursing, I do not accept that it has anything to do with the poor.

Amos does refer to poor people being mistreated by a godless society, but America bears no faint similarity to the people of Amos' day. We go the extra mile in this country, citing Christian values I might add, to help the poor. Many of those who are getting help, don't need help. Now, they may well need an attitude adjustment, but free everything is an altogether different situation and God never suggests a free ride for the able bodied. In fact, it is quite the opposite; 1 Timothy 5:8 (KJV)
"8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel."

The liberal argument is absurd. First they say only heartless Republicans would stand in the way of who knows how many illegals pouring in here to find jobs, which they always find BTW. Second, they say those who were born and raised here can't find work because there are no jobs. Anybody else see an inconsistency with the two talking points? I know a lot of people think they're too good to do many of the jobs that illegal immigrants hold, but there are jobs.