Who pays for ‘free stuff’?<\/p>\n
+People with resources who see others in need and choose to help by sharing some of their abundance.<\/p>\n
+Christians who follow Jesus’ command to feed and care for the poor and needy.<\/p>\n
+Benevolent organizations that choose to use some of their resources from voluntary contributions to help others in need.<\/p>\n
+Taxpayers (slaves) that make involuntary “contributions” to governments that give handouts to people (to control both).<\/p>\n
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Who profits from ‘free stuff’?<\/p>\n
+Politicians—campaigning\/promising the people ‘free, free, and more free.’<\/p>\n
+Wealthy—funding\/controlling the politicians.<\/p>\n
+Dictators—surviving\/eliminating all threats to power.<\/p>\n
+Enemies—seizing\/exploiting the weakened state of a people growing dependent on government, giving up freedom and free will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Who pays for ‘free stuff’? +People with resources who see others in need and choose to help by sharing some of their abundance. +Christians who follow Jesus’ command to feed and care for the poor and needy. +Benevolent organizations that choose to use some of their resources from voluntary contributions to help others in need. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-financial","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4009,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions\/4009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}