While Judaism isn’t about rights, there is a halachic responsibility to provide for the poor, regardless of how they became poor.
Sheker. As I quoted earlier:
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Kesubos 49B
You are mechuyav to provide the ability to work at Wal Mart (which currently exists). You are NOT mechuyav to provide funds. IN fact, you are mechuyav to embarass someone into working instead of sitting (even learning) and collecting welfare from the community.
Unfortunatley my buisness is not yet big enough to be able to qualify for Federal loans to do nothing that I don’t have to pay back like Solyndra or A123 or any of the other “green jobs” my tax money and my employees tax money was used for.
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