Jesus Feeds the Thousands

For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always. Matthew 26:11

So, the government should feed people? We shouldn't work for our food? We deserve to be given everything?
According to the Bible, we the people, NOT the government, should help out people who are in need of help. The government will run people's lives if given the opportunity. I'd like to keep the government out of charity. That should be up to American's, not the government. Communism has never worked. Big government always leads to a weak country.

But the government is run by people. People enact government programs to feed the poor. This is how it worked in Acts, in the early church: church leaders redistributed surplus to the needy, and this was systematic, overseen and managed from the top. This is the type of system Paul decreed in his letters. This is how Jesus fed the multitudes: the leader of the people collected and redistributed the resources. It might not be Communism but it sure sounds like Socialism in some form. Socialism is Biblical.

Also, "needy" does not necessarily mean "lazy." Many Americans today work tooth and nail yet still cannot afford all the basics of living such as housing, food, and health care. Some people struggle from obstacles such as health conditions that are overwhelmingly expensive and NOT THEIR FAULT. When the Pharisees asked Jesus "who sinned, that this man was born blind?" Jesus chided them for automatically correlating personal struggle with sin (or some sort of willfully deficient behavior such as laziness). While Paul did say, "Those who do not work should not eat," he also commanded Christians to take care of poor and widows, without stipulating that those widows be working full time. And James argues that faith without works is dead, and that the natural expression of faith is good works, often through helping the needy. So, refusing to help the needy at any level puts one in direct conflict with the central themes, figures, and writers of the New Testament.

So then we should have programs for disabled people and widows: I think that sounds perfectly reasonable.
However, I don't think the national government should be in charge of it. I'd say leave that to the local government.
It should be noted, though, that widows now would have more of an opportunity to support themselves than they would have 2000 years ago. Regardless, I agree that if they are in need of help, people should be willing to give to help them out.
Here's how I'd sum it up: If there are people with a situation affecting their ability to work, people should help them. HOWEVER, it should be a choice that people make for themselves, rather than the government making that decision.

Socialism is not biblical. Jesus took a small amount of food and fed a lot of people with it. He didn't use a "surplus".
Also, the disciples didn't throw everything together and say "Everybody owns it, and nobody owns it." They gave of their own possessions. Here's the way it's said: "And [they] sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need." They didn't pool things and give out the surplus. They gave up their own things to provide for people in need. There's a huge difference there, pal.