Questions about unemployment from a conservative.

[The Second Stone]

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1. Until they find a job.

2. It is not okay with me if anyone cheats the unemployment system. People who have been proven, beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty, cheated the unemployment system should be prosecuted. It is not okay to "beg the question" and smear all recipients with "many". Many banks cheated the system during the meltdown of 2008 and 2009. They have had to pay back pennies on the dollars that they illegally profited. Nobody charges them. Is that okay? No. Is it a bigger problem? Yes, it compares trillions to millions lost.

3. This isn't a clear question. I don't know Obama's inner motives any better than I knew Ronald Reagan's. I know what they say publicly, and in Reagan's case, I see after 30 years of those policies what the results are. You assume that Obama wants to make people dependent on him personally. I see no evidence of that. I am not dependent on Obama, you are not dependent on Obama. I know of no person who is dependent on Obama.

4. Dems would prefer people to be independent, so the starting premise is false. Dems want a strong middle class, and want the poorer class to have an opportunity to succeed. The fact is that many people are poor, and as Christians, we are commanded to heal the sick and feed the hungry. Give the cloak off your back, no questions asked. The questions you ask indicate that you have made a judgments about poor people and not kind ones. We are commanded as Christians not to make these judgments, because we too are sinners.

Christ said that if you want to enter the kingdom of heaven, sell all your possessions and give the proceeds to the poor. Do you do that? Do you feed the poor out of your own pocket without considering skin color, mental health issues, drug abuse, alcoholism and other deservedness?

Pat Robertson is a very wealthy man because he uses the Holy Spirit to convince people a lot poorer than he is to give him money. I couldn't do this because it is blaspheming the Holy Spirit. I'm a sinner, but I'm not going to ask an elderly person on social security to send me money if I'm a billionaire because of Christ. It doesn't work that way.

You may think of yourself as a Christian, and I am not to judge you, but I could not hold your views and pray with others thinking that was anywhere near the best I could do.