Easier for a Camel

When Jesus said that it was “Easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” (Matthew 19:24) –  He must have been thinking about those who have no concept of the burdens which are placed on people, when they do not get paid. Take Wilbur Ross, who thought that employees in the Federal Work Force could easily get a loan to tide them over the five weeks of working without pay.  Without a frame of reference relative to the experience of ordinary people, it is difficult to have empathy or compassion.   The assumption a loan was easily available showed how little Ross knew about the economic rules for people who live pay check to pay check.

What Ross said made a lot of sense in the space and world of the wealthy he inhabits…