Amen! For example choosing between deeper debt or government handouts.....its not a win/win proposition!Rensai wrote:I have to say in times past, I would have probably answered negative to the question without a second thought, but I've changed my opinion. Before anyone asks, no, its not because I'm on welfare. Thankfully I'm still working. However, I see the system we live in. I see people who desperately seek work forced to choose between caring for their children and their pride about welfare.
When a person could work, but chooses welfare, that is immoral. When a person fakes disability to get welfare, that is immoral. When a person lies or cheats others to get welfare that is immoral and so forth. BUT, when a person, despite their best efforts, has no other recourse but welfare, then I think it is immoral to suffer needlessly. In that case, swallow the pride, take the welfare, and continue to work towards self sufficiency as soon as possible. If a person does that, they are in line with the church's guidance and are living morally.
That said, I'd love to see a better system put in to place, but until then, I guess I'm taking a "make the best of a bad situation" kind of a stance on this.
Reality is the monetary system is designed to steal everything and leave everyone homeless on the land their forefathers conquered.....and its coming to fruition!
Nearly 11 Percent of US Houses Empty
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Nearly 3 million homes were repossessed by banks between January 2007 and August 2010, according to RealtyTrac, and many others have been taken over in the months since.
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Deutsche Bank, an authority on housing, is the most pessimistic; its analysts predicted in 2009 that as many as 48 percent of the mortgages in America could have negative equity by this year. In any case, the raw material for foreclosures—delinquencies—are on the rise, so we can certainly expect a significant increase in the roughly 25 percent of home mortgages already underwater and with that, more delinquencies and foreclosures.
According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, at least 8 million Americans are at least one month behind on their mortgage payments.
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A recent report by Pew’s Fiscal Analysis Initiative shows 30 percent, or 4.2 million of the 14 million, of those who are jobless have been unemployed for a year or more — the federal government defines long-term unemployed as six months or longer — the highest percentage since World War II as of December 2010.
In the last year, the number of long-term unemployed is up 25 percent, from the 3.4 people affected in December 2009, according to the report.
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Gallup Finds Unemployment at 9.6% in December
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....its called debt saturation after nearly a 100 years of the private banking cartel called the Federal Reserve. Or in other words the end of easy money and beginning of the default spiral that won't quit until nearly every last one of us has been rooted from our homes and robbed of all we possess (unless you've stayed out of debt, saved up for a rainy day, and can get enough neighbors mad to keep property taxes down).....or we riot and burn down the country.....which ever comes first. As President Monson said - There will be a day of reckoning! You can take that to the bank....with your IOU of course!
And I don't look down on or have any bad feelings towards other saints regardless of what country they live in or how socialist their country is - particularly considering our own awful situation. HOWEVER,
Anyway.....
