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;
See Coffman’s excursion "Concerning Work" (p.124) on how our government has tipped the scales to the advantage of the loafer and freeloader... He wrote that the slave states of communism who outwork us may in the end destroy and supersede us (because of the work ethic).