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There is a BIG difference between qualifying for benefits and getting them (including for legitimate avreichim) and any type of benefit fraud.
I, for one, will never forget and never forgive the very FDRoosevelt YMSvZ who started all this welfare for refusing to allow Jewish refugees to enter the US during the war and worse yet for not accepting Jews at the Evian Conference. Therefore, I feel it is only fair when a kollel couple gets assistance for rebuilding Torah from the very government that sat by when their grandparents were in camps during WW2. And this is such a drop in the bucket compared to real welfare culture broken families. What is more, I agree that the system will collapse, so that unlike the children of the welfare culture, the children of kollel families will not all continue on benefits. Finally, at some point, many people leave kollel so that the benefits were temporary anyway.
SJS, you should be happy that YOUR money, which the moment you pay it in taxes is the GOVERNMENT’s money, goes to fund a few Torah families and not just wasteful projects and welfare culture broken families which produce nothing but criminals. I agree that for all we know, the zechus of this support is all that is keeping America successful and stable in these trying times.
What is more, Shop-Rite doesn’t need any more baggers. Some of their franchisees will probably be closing stores soon.
Welfare or benefits FRAUD is another story. It needs to be rooted out and fast. And bench warming as opposed to learning needs to be stopped as well, but the economy combined with growth of the community will probably leave little room for wasting community resources.