PENNIES  FALLING  FROM  HEAVEN    -   BOSCONET THOUGHTS

“Pennies do not fall from heaven; they have to be earned here on earth,” said Margaret Thatcher. Manmohan said the same in different words, perhaps quoting someone else, “There is no such thing as a a free lunch.” A long way back – 2000 years ago – St. Paul, the apostle put the same thought in his own way, “He who does not work, neither let him eat.” “Give work rather than alms to the poor,” said Tryon Edwards.

Hand-outs and charity that lowers the self-respect of a person and destroys his possibility to use his capacities is no act of love. We should neither expect nor give a hand-out, except to those not in a position to earn anything – little children, the terminally ill, those severely handicapped whether physically or mentally.

A million received for no work, but in charity or through a lottery, is not worth a dollar earned by the sweat of my brow.

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