Feif Un -“They’re supposed to be a b’dieved, not a l’chatchilah. In Lakewood, they’re treated as a l’chatchilah. People should be trying to make ends without help. If you still can’t, and you’re doing everything you can, then you can rely on government programs.”
More Motzay Shem Ra! I take them and by me this is only a B’dieved. I don’t even know whether others are taking them L’chatchilla or B’dieved, but you know? And I have lived here many years. Perhaps you know these facts because of your bias against Charedim?
“Health, the reason the government changed the rules is not antisemitism. It’s because the programs are intended for those who are trying to make ends meet, and can’t. Either they’re looking for work and can’t find it, or they’re working but just not making enough. They’re not intended for those who choose not to work and intend to rely on these programs.”
Of course it’s antisemitism. There are some other groups (not to mention any names) in America that a lot of them have been sitting around all day doing nothing except drinking Booze & taking drugs and yet there has not been any regs directed at removing them from the social programs. As matter of fact, these groups have been doing this long before Lakewood was. Years and years before. And they are still doing it. At least Lakewooders are doing something constructive with their lives -like sitting and learning all day! I know -I know -You don’t consider this anything constructive, but some of us religious Jews do!