Leonardo Da Vinci has said, “O God, you sell us everything for the price of an effort.”
By giving us mortal bodies with their unceasing need for food, clothing and shelter, the Lord placed us in a situation where someone must work or we all die. We have had the sentence of labor for life passed upon us. Through the organization of the family, the Lord provided for our periods of helplessness with the parents taking care of the children during the time of their inability, and with the children caring for the parents when their situations are reversed.
Therefore, if any man shall take of the abundance which I have made, and impart not his portion, according to the law of my gospel, unto the poor and the needy, he shall with the wicked, lift up his eyes in hell, being in torment. (D&C 104:15, 16, 18)
Welfare state laws are contrary to every aspect of the Lord’s plan. They legalize plunder and teach people to believe it is their right to live at the expense of others. They tend to remove the necessity of obeying the commandment to labor. They encourage idleness and tend to abolish the need for charitable giving. They destroy the sanctity of family relationships by removing the interdependence which should exist therein.
The key here is to keep government out of it. The same thing that is right when done by an individual using his agency is completely wrong and contrary to God’s laws when done through force by the Government.
via Inspired Constitution :: The Book of Mormon and the Constitution.