You shall not molest or oppress an alien, for you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 23:9
You shall not oppress an alien; you well know how it feels to be an alien, since you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt.
Leviticus 19:9-10
When you reap the harvest of you land, you shall not be so thorough that you reap the field to its very edge, nor shall you glean the stray ears of grain.Likewise, you shall not pick you vineyard bare, nor gather up the grapes that have fallen.These things you shall leave for the poor and the alien.I, the Lord, am your God.
Leviticus 19:33
When an alien resides with you in your land, do not molest him, you shall treat the alien who resides with you no differently than native born among you, have the same love for him as for yourselves for you too were once aliens in the land of Egypt.I, the Lord, am your God.
Leviticus 24:22
You shall have but one rule, for alien and native alike.I, the Lord, am your God.
Leviticus 25:35
When one of your fellow countrymen is reduced to poverty and is unable to hold out beside you, extend to him the privileges of an alien or a tenant, so that he may continue to live with you.
Psalm 146:9
The Lord protects the stranger, sustains the orphan and the widow, but thwarts the way of the wicked.
Isaiah 62:5
Strangers shall stand ready to pasture your flocks, foreigners shall be your farmers and vinedressers.
Jeremiah 22:3
Thus says the Lord; Do what is right and just.Rescue the victim from the hand of his oppressor.Do not wrong or oppress the resident alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.
Zechariah 7:9-10
Thus says the Lord of hosts:Render true judgment, and show kindness and compassion toward each other.Do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the alien or the poor; do not plot evil against one another in your hearts.
Matthew 25:35-40
For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me.Then the righteous will answer him and say, 'Lord when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?'And the king will say to them in reply, 'Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.'
Hebrews 13:2
Do not neglect hospitality, for through it some have unknowingly entertained angels.
3 John 1:5
Beloved, you are faithful in all you do for the brothers, especially for strangers...
I stayed up late last night to write letters to my senators and congresswoman about obamacare. I found a government publication that says that 5% of the people spend 49% of the dollars spent on healthcare in the United States. The lower 50% of the people spend 3% of the dollars spent on healthcare. More stats from the CIA factbook (I love Tom Clancy by the way) ranks the United States 50th among nations for life expectancy at 78.11 years. We just beat out Albania at 77.96 years. Check out this graphic I found at http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/spend.php:
Look at Cuba, they spend the lowest out of these 31 countries and the United States spends the most out of the 31 countries but cuban life expentancy is almost the same at the life expentancy in the USA. That's weird. The CIA data agree for the most part with these data but they didn't have the pretty graphic.
I've been riding my bike to Cactus Forest and about half way there is a lonely teddy bear. I believe that he is watching the place where a girl died a long time ago but I don't really know the story.
