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.
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.
