Riots in London

So what's up with all the looting and burning going on in the UK?  Why are all the teenagers and young adults so unhappy?  And could this be a foreshadowing for what may soon be coming to a city near you?

If you live a normal life of absolute futility, which we can assume most of this week’s rioters do, excitement of any kind is welcome. The people who wrecked swathes of property, burned vehicles and terrorised communities have no moral compass to make them susceptible to guilt or shame.

Most have no jobs to go to or exams they might pass. They know no family role models, for most live in homes in which the father is unemployed, or from which he has decamped.

They are illiterate and innumerate, beyond maybe some dexterity with computer games and BlackBerries.

They are essentially wild beasts. I use that phrase advisedly, because it seems appropriate to young people bereft of the discipline that might make them employable; of the conscience that distinguishes between right and wrong.

They respond only to instinctive animal impulses — to eat and drink, have sex, seize or destroy the accessible property of others.

The depressing truth is that at the bottom of our society is a layer of young people with no skills, education, values or aspirations. They do not have what most of us would call ‘lives’: they simply exist. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2024284/UK-riots-2011-Liberal-dogma-spawned-generation-brutalised-youths.html#ixzz1UkJCQWaa

And of course we also have the bottom layer of young people with no skills, education, values or aspirations.

I had a reader recently ask me if I thought it a good idea for the government to set up some WPA or CCC like they had during the depression?  These were programs where men were given jobs to build parks, lay sidewalks, pick up trash, ....do whatever necessary and the government would give them a few dollars so they could eat and buy some clothes.

Friends....do you really think that the folks today living on welfare and food stamps would show up someplace at 8AM to pour cement or actually work doing ANYTHING?  Of course not!!  If we have been giving food, money and housing to folks for 60 years....why would they want to work for it tomorrow?  They would be angry and I'm guessing would soon start behaving like the folks in the UK....rioting.

The Bible clearly tells us that if a man won't work then he shouldn't eat.  But the liberals and unions around us wanted to trump that.  The unions didn't want the hungry taking their jobs of picking up litter or pouring concrete and the liberals thought it would be degrading to the poor and may feel like punishment to them if they were asked to work....so they just wanted to GIVE them the food, clothes and rent...until they could get "back on their feet again".

Last week I heard a woman say to me, "My unemployment runs out pretty soon...I better go start looking for a job."  Yet she had been on unemployment for over 6 months!  Wasn't she supposed to start looking right away on day 1?

The fact is that we have created a monster by assuming we can pay people to do nothing.  Remember why the Israelites were told by God to leave the corners of their fields unharvested....it was so the poor could go harvest it themselves and thereby not starve.  God did NOT tell the farmers to harvest the food and deliver it the the poor....and that is exactly what we have been doing.