In 2024, the world’s billionaires collectively added $2 trillion to their wealth. That’s $5.7 billion. Per day. Every single day.
Meanwhile, according to the USDA’s December 2025 Food Security Report, 47.9 million Americans — including 14 million children — lived in food-insecure households. Fourteen million children in the wealthiest nation on earth went to bed unsure if they would eat tomorrow.
Let those two numbers sit next to each other and tell you what they mean.
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” — Marcus Aurelius
The federal government’s response? In July 2025, the budget reconciliation law enacted the deepest cuts to SNAP in the program’s entire history. Food assistance for the most vulnerable Americans — slashed. Not because the money wasn’t there. Because the will wasn’t there.
This is not a bug. This is the system working exactly as designed.
Proverbs 14:31 — “Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.” A government that strips food from children while protecting the fortunes of billionaires isn’t just failing policy. It’s committing a moral offense against God.
The decay isn’t only in Washington. It’s in what we choose not to see.
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