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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Bye Bye Biden

Honestly, and no surprise to regular readers, I hate these visits of foreign dignitaries, especially important Americans like the United States Vice President Joe Biden.  No offense, Joe; it's nothing personal.  I have decades of experience with you guys and you end up bringing us terrorism, lop-sided, uneven pressure and even war.

Call it "peace" or whatever you choose, but the actual results are as far from peace as one can get.  Why don't you go back to Washington DC and lobby for the end of that recession you Americans are suffering from.  Or make healthcare a national right, like we have in Israel.  That's right. 

The Israeli system is excellent.  Everyone is covered and even can choose healthcare providers.  The country/government isn't a healthcare provider, but all workers, even the minimal part-time worker gets membership in one of the "Sick Funds," as part of National Insurance, like your Social Security.  Anyone unemployed gets covered either through a working spouse's  National Insurance payments or "welfare."  All minor children are covered, too.  One can transfer/change healthcare organizations/companies and prior medical problems are always covered, even for new immigrants.

Joe Biden, believe me, that we Israelis would be better off if you'd just butt out of our business.  We don't need an Arab terror state in Our Holy and Historic Land.  We just need to destroy Arab terrorism.  If you don't like how it looks, don't watch.  You have enough to do in your fifty American states, so get to work there, pronto.

Bye Bye, Biden, Bye Bye

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

health care is not a right.
but biden is really not worth anyones time. i think even the israeli media understands this. when bush came, they reported on every sneeze; with biden, i hardly knew he was here.

ChaimJ said...

Why do so many people travel to the US to raise charity to cover their uncovered health expenses..

Batya said...

a, chaimJ, there's a difference between basic health care and certain expensive advanced procedures or "going private" instead of waiting for "covered" or subsidized care.

In Israel childbirth, basic children's medical care, accidents etc are covered.

In Israel some medications are in the "basket" of free or subsidized medicines and some aren't.

We still pay a smaller percentage of our income on medical expenses.
ChaimJ, some people ask for charity abroad to cover weddings instead of working and having the weddings they can afford.

ChaimJ said...

Thanks Batya.

Sometimes I wonder if I am being scammed but you just have to give and Hashem will balance the books.

Agree for regarding the last part - some people need to get a job and not assume their Torah study in kollel is so essential to the Jewish people. The Rabbis also need to speak to people about when birth control is halachicly appropriate. And people need to start living within their means (including me!)

Batya said...

Yes, me, too

Remember that the giver gets the mitzvah, whether conned or not. But someone handling public funds is supposed to check more thoroughly.

Hadassa said...

Shalom!
Ummm... sorry to disagree here but if the recipient of tzedaka money isn't worthy, there's no mitza to give it. Just last week Rav Levanon of Elon Moreh answered a question on the topic. A woman asked what to do about all the people asking her for tzedaka and showering her with blessings whenever she walked through a city. Rav Levanon's advice was to give each person a shekel - no more - so that she wouldn't ignore them, but to be careful with tzedaka money because there are many unscrupulous people looking for tzedaka money.
In K'far Darom Rav Schreiber requested that we refer to him anyone who came around collecting tzedaka that didn't have written documents attesting to his or her reliability.
When charlatans receive our tzedaka money the truly needy don't receive their due.

Batya said...

Hadassa, I remember Rav Elchanan (I think it was) saying that if you were "had" you still get the mitzvah, but of course one shouldn't give blindly.

Unknown said...

Here in Baltimore, everyone collecting has to get a petek from Rav Heinemann. He is very careful and everyone is checked and verified. In fact, the petek is often used in other cities to show that the person is legitimate and was checked out.

Batya said...

We're supposed to see a letter from the rabbi, here too. When they don't have one, or it's out of date, it's easier to say "sorry, no."
Israeli cities also have beggers; many are polite, but it's hard to know who's legitimate. Now that we really don't have money, I'm more careful.

Anonymous said...

From my experiences, unless you have access to the Urim V'tumim, there's no way to tell who's telling the truth or not.

With all due respect to Rav Heinemann (who can assemble a nuclear reactor blindfolded), unless his rejection rate is 50% plus, there are limits as to what can be checked out.

I am very bothered that I cannot verify 100% where my money is going to when given to individuals claiming to be in need of help.

Yes, I give the bulk to well known organizations but there's a limit to what they can do as the number of people in need has increased in leaps and bounds, especially over these last few years.

Hashem ya'azor ve'yerachem.