neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you;
How deplorable it is that government has tipped the scales to the advantage of the loafer and freeloader who claim, as a right, the privilege of being supported in idleness.  It is hard to decide which is the more reprehensible - the professional shirker, or the government which harbors and sustains him.  In the words of James I. Vance, "God is on the side of the worker.  The worker has rights; the willful idler has none."[12] This basic ethic shines in a passage like this chapter.