Thousands march through Bnei Brak against Haredi ‘pillaging of the public coffers’
Thousands of anti-government demonstrators marched through the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak on Wednesday night to protest against the government’s plans to allocate large sums of money to the ultra-Orthodox community — a move that has drawn criticism from within the Finance Ministry for being unsustainable in the long term.
A saprophyte lives of its hosts resources but doesn't draim them so the host doesn't fight back. A parasite drains its hosts resources, ultimately killing it unless the host fights back. And now the host is starting to.
ReplyDeleteThe host is the State, which is currently run by a hareidi coalition.
ReplyDeleteIt is similar to Angel bakery - do the opposition support them enough to compensate for the hareidi boycott?
Is bibi willing to go to new elections, or will he buy more time by paying the hareidi parties?
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship...."
ReplyDelete-Alexander Fraser Tytler
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/108530-a-democracy-cannot-exist-as-a-permanent-form-of-government
The real question for me is: how are we in the diaspora going to react to the collapse if and when it occurs?
ReplyDeletehttps://matzav.com/revealed-bennetts-offer-to-the-chareidim/
ReplyDeleteSo they can accept the money from bibi, this is a "kosher " government
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