Government Creates Poverty: PATTON
Private operations do a better job of serving the poor, Bulldog commentator Mike Patton says.
Fund the Food Bank
Mike Patton is the former communications director for Mayor Larry O’Brien and the president of the Ottawa West-Nepean PC Association.
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Wouldn’t it just make more sense to deal with the reasons people need to use the food bank and get rid of it altogether rather than trying to find ways to organize it in a different way? People whose income, from whatever source, is adequate to meet their needs don’t need food banks.
Just to clarify: I’m not suggesting people shouldn’t donate to the Ottawa Food Bank or your local food cupboard. They are doing valuable work keeping some people fed.
I do believe strongly that, at the same time as we’re keeping the Food Bank going, we should be simultaneously working to solve the reasons that people find themselves at the door of a food program in the first place.
There is a story about a man who helped pull bodies from the river that flowed through his village. This had gone on for years and then, one day, he asked why there were so many bodies in the river in the first place. Nobody could answer his question so he set off with a few companions to find the answer. Up stream, he found a village that was meting out punishment to villagers that broke their laws. The punishment was to be thrown alive into the river. Most could not swim and, not being able to save themselves, drowned and their bodies were swept downstream by the river to his village.
What food banks do is pull the bodies out of the river but rarely are many questions asked as to how they got there and, more importantly, what could be done to keep them out of the river in the first place.