Our Prime Minister plans to spend one billion dollars over the next five years to feed students. The Hon. Jenna Studds, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development stated,
“We’re creating a National School Food Program because kids learn better on a full stomach.”
Our VCCA students learn through a morning callout, “If anyone will not work… neither let him eat.” Does this Proverb speak to the merits of this National School Food Program? Is it the government’s role to feed children? Is it the government’s role to educate children? Is this proposed food for kids a good thing or an evil thing? Whether it is ten-dollar a day daycare, government education or a national breakfast program, they all foster learned helplessness and reliance on the State. All of this is a relinquishing of parental responsibility and a rejection of God’s spheres of sovereignty. As we allow our government to violate God’s principles for human flourishing as they assume the God ordained role of the family and the church, King Solomon’s Proverb, “If anyone will not work… neither let him eat” will continue to play out for more than just the 400,000 kids they plan to feed, hunger will become a true national crisis.
It is one thing for our governing authorities to disregard God’s Law/Word, but it’s another thing to be willingly ignorant of how the record of History clearly links the hunger experienced in communist and socialist countries (Venezuela) who steal the people’s means of production and often steal from the people by inflating the money supply. Consider just one way of thinking about what happens when countries apply ‘quantitative easing’. In 2020, the U.S. printed 6 trillion dollars. The average yearly income was 60 thousand dollars. It would take 100 million years for the average person to earn this amount of money. Therefore the U.S. Government stole 100 million years of labour with the simple but wicked push of a button. No wonder children in average families don’t have enough to eat, and until we thirst and hunger after His righteousness, hunger and thirst will be inevitable.
