For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat."
III. It injures those who are truly needy.  It is a case of taking the children's bread and giving it to the dogs.  The idlers are the more insistent and clamorous for support in their idleness; and all that is given to them is no longer available for those who have just claims upon the charity of others.