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I think the reason so many frum NYers support Trump is because they saw first hand what a great job a well connected businessman can do when placed at the bead of a government entity. If Bloomy could lead NY better than all the political candidates, then why not Trump too? Makes me think that in 8 years from now Trump can be running for a third term also.
Charlie – Trump fits both of those criteria. Say that doesn’t mean you support him!
Comlink- I was hoping to make people think of the line right before that.
Way to misdirect. DY meant W.
“Do something you enjoy doing and you’ll never work a day in your life.”
Because they’re not hiring in that field.
TARP?! Now you’re grasping at straws. Here I was thinking you were trying to compare apples and oranges when you’re really trying to compare apples to unicorns.
Can you hear the sound of silent footsteps in the night?
Sam – did you mistakenly think you were posting in the YCT teshuvos thread? Because its not.
You don’t have to defend him to support him. Trump is an arrogant jerk and a bigot. Obama is an arrogant jerk and a bigot too. Both can be president in this day and age. We have gotten to the point where we are nearly ready to elect Zaphod Beeblebrox
Do you have confused with someone else? Maybe Noah Webster?
Don’t be like Bert.
(Does he just wear it and wear it and wear it for weeks?)
It is a fictitious number. Where is the real one?
The dude with the blocks makes it all the more ridiculous. Stop playing with childrens toys and bring us some grown up data already. Its been long enough…. how many excess girls are there expressed as an integer, not a percentage? How large in the OTD issue? How many BTs are there? How much one way crossover is there between groups such as chassidish or sefardic and yeshivish? We’ve been over this countless times.
Any child can isolate a single variable from a complex world and make a theoretical argument. Refusing to admit the limitations of this ‘analysis’ is even more childish! How much longer are people going to be bought by a sophomoric idea and a loud voice?
The only relationship anyone has with G-d is Creator/creation. Beyond that, it’s r******* to think in those terms. You daven and ask Hashem for things? That’s avodas Hashem. You think you’re in a relationship? Become a nun.
Depends which is the ikkar and which is the tafel. Someone who is striving to be a proper yid can also be rich and famous, but someone who is striv8ng to be rich and famous will find it hard to remain a proper yid.
Call corporate handouts corruption, faulty economic theory, or anything along those lines and you can be taken for real. Only an idiot could call it welfare in the context of individual oriented social programs.
And what do the babies usually tell you they’d like to get?
I never knew, so how am I now to properly feel the loss? I feel like a ger on his first tisha bav.
Let’s start over. Tell me how to make you like me again, and then I can repost my forest/trees comment so that you can stop liking me and make it count.
<bows>
You are all excellent at seeing trees. Now here’s a secret. If you climb up and look over them you will be able to see there is a forest. I either made up the story entirely or I altered some details to protect the innocent. Now try again – if you wish – to find a moral in the story.
The brisker rav used to give his sefarim to bar mitzvah boys and hide a $50 bill in the pages (in those days a lot of money). A few months later he would visit the boy’s house ostensibly to look at the shelves of new sefarim he had amassed. He would then open the sefer he had given and take back the $50. Never once had the boy actually opened the sefer. Moral of the story?
Popa, now be fair. Trump most definitely is a bigot, that’s what so many millions of rubes see in him. None of the liberals would leave if he would win (though you’ll never know for sure) just like none of the normal people actually left when Obama won despite their pledges. Turns out they should’ve.
The problem is population growth and as a result there are too many children trying to get into the same grade. Imagine an island that only has 3 classrooms but 100 children. 10 of those children are going to die from exposure or sunburn.
The solution is to send your kids to school 2-3 years younger than is currently thought of as normal. Send to kindergarten at age 2 instead of 5 and then there will be enough classrooms for all. Also, SYR is sponsoring cars to take your little tykes to school so you don’t have to bear that expense and carpool hassle too early in your young life.
At least 71 roshei yeshiva have given me their bracha.
I’m thrilled with this message. Rechnitz can finance and support a few inclusive schools so they can absorb all the rif raff from my yeshiva (e.g. kids with fathers who wear blue shirts) and keep the place up to snuff. He has my best interests at heart. I can’t thank him enough.
How hilarious – I always thought it was simply a clever irony, not an actual quote from edited (if sam is to be believed).
Ergo zionism = loshon hara?
I did not know. That’s great! So would you say the area is now more like boro park or KJ?
Baltimore has a heimish part? That’ll be the day
Either one would be better than what you’ve currently got
$150M is plenty to live on for generations. The only way a person would have a problem is if they forget that it is a one time windfall and not an annual income amount.
I’m fairly sure that the hakomas hamedinah is not the beginning of the geulah. In fact, I believe that if not for the enormous zechusim of all the yeshivos and kollelim in EY today, the Land would have already spit you out. Do you think the geulah is about returning to a geographic location? It is about returning to Hashem and seeing Him in the open. Let me know when that starts.
I’d have built a big tall house with rooms by the dozen right in the middle of the town. There’d be one long staircase just going up and one even longer going down. And one more leading nowhere – just for show.
Smart employers know that its so unlikely for that to happen, it doesn’t pay to stymie the employees’ initiative.
ca – I was responding to cherrybim… as long as you don’t check your numbers, your ticket is a winning ticket and a losing ticket simultaneously.
Schroedinger’s lottery ticket?
Ouch
With kollel being the thread title and the focus of everyone else’s comments, you can see how it was an honest mistake not to realize that one guy was not deliberately arguing about some larger group.
Coffee addict – may you always have sufficient to suffice
Because I knew that no one would play the numbers I posted.
I won’t, for the same reason, post the numbers for Wednesday’s drawing ahead of time.
I didn’t buy a ticket, I never do. It is unethical to use precognitive abilities for such a purpose.
Avram – if government benefits are to be thought of as an insurance safety net rather than tzedakah, then there is tremendous unaddressed moral hazard in the design. The equivalent example is someone who burns down his own house to get insurance money. Charity is a safety net, but it is not insurance.
Entitlement benefits are charity that you dont have to beg for.
Avram – forgive me, but it was pretty obvious that you were trying to engineer someone into setting you up for your coup de grace, and I was pretty disappointed in your hand once you played it. You are way off topic if you believe that we are talking about the generic US welfare program receipient in this conversation. They typically are driving old pickup trucks not lexuses. This conversation is about unzerer welfare receipients, who by and large live upper middle class lifestyles made possible by having discovered the absolute best possible way to maximize benefits and have succeeded tremendously, with a great deal of “credit” due to entire organizations dedicated to this goal.
When you see a kollel guy/wife pull out an EBT card and then load the groceries into a lexus, you have a lot more information than if it were a random person you observed doing the same thing. I don’t think I used the word lazy, but you know that the kollel guy made an active choice to take benefits rather than contribute economically to society, and seems to be rewarded for doing so to a greater extent than someone who does his best to earn his own way. If you can’t see how that can drive an average person crazy, then you are not nearly as level headed as your years of posting here indicate.
They are praying for their organization’s wealth and (along with the ads) it is working. They don’t publish those stories because they want it to continue. A fool and his money are soon parted.
Of course I am off, those are powerball not mega.
Mega are: 11, 39, 51, 57, 75, 2
I have yet to see a band at recent jewish weddings, of 1 man or any number, that had a chush for keeping it classy. Hire a band that understands that they were not hired to do a concert, and keeps the music appropriate for an elegant affair (volume, selection). Dance time is dance time, but dinner and reception is for socializing, and the band should be heard but not noticed.
The winning numbers are
32 16 19 57 34 and PB 13
Avram – I’m baffled why you ask me to differentiate between EITC and EBT when I said they are the same to me.
Yes, the fact that no one needs to go about in rags proves that the programs are serving the social benefit that was intended. That doesn’t prevent people who don’t get benefits from comparing themselves to those who do (and thus being the thief of joy). What was your question? You’re confused as to why people are upset that the system works so well that it seems like welfare receipients have it better than hard working people? Yeah run that by me again.
As to child tax credits, those are in the same category as giving tax exemptions for dependents. The country wants its citizens to have families and offers a financial incentive.
When I said taking it easy I meant taking public money.
Btw, there’s plenty of disdain for “rich kids” that comes from the same place. But there is no tayneh that the money is being taken from hard working people under the guise of desperation for charitable assistance (its being taken from hard working people under the guise of we own you plebes)
Avram – I understand that you weren’t aware that zd’s example was not a grey area, so it’s not part of this discussion and we will drop it. Plus, I have no answers anyway, just reading what I see.
The way I see the nice car issue, which is a good example of legal but smelling bad, is one of jealousy. It’s not hard to imagine how someone with EBT could afford to drive a new Lexus SUV (e.g. saved up for a long time, or received a gift, or had enough to put down to drive off the lot but will eventually lose it, etc) but to the hard working guy driving a 10 year old Buick it can be difficult to fargin. Why should I work so hard and have no disposable income while this guy gets to take it easy and have everything I have plus more? Not easy to answer, because the hard working guy’s advantages and superiority are not nearly as visible as the advantage of the Lexus over the Buick. But it’s not hard to understand how the guy who gets everything handed to him wouldn’t artificially limit his conspicuous spending either when he has no need to worry about how to cover his next months’ expenses.
Archeologists discovered straws buried in the sands and seas of Egypt, so we know they had straws then. Did you not know this? You can see some of them on display in The Living Makkos Museum, right next to the frog skeletons.
If you have something to say to me, say it. If you don’t want to say it publicly you know how to find me.
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