Conservative attitude

Someone on facebook posted this.

It's a standard "conservative" whine that people who get unemployment, food-stamps, Medicare, etc., do so willingly. "They" do it, in fact, to game the system, and take advantage of decent hard-working people (i.e., "us").

Someone pointed out that if "conservatives" are right, they've missed an even more astonishing fact: American employment figures show that every month for the last year, a quarter-million lazy welfare-mooches change their evil attitudes, and decide to get a job.

But more than factually, the "conservative" position is attitudinally wrong: at least, for Christians.

The obvious sub-text of the "conservative" attitude is that people who need help are losers, and most of them are bad people who cheat the system.

Luke introduces one of Jesus' parables with words that exactly address that "conservative" attitude: "And He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt..." (Luke 18:9)

May God give today's pharasaical "conservatives" a spirit of repentance !