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CharlieHall,
You seem to like bigger gov’t, and I’m sure you can tell that I don’t. I want to understand you point of view better.
What do you see as the purpose of gov’t and how does that get carried out?
What is your dream situation?
charliehall wrote:
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You didn’t read my comment. I gave you the answer: “Private sector employment increased last month for the tenth month in a row. “
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They are increasing at a crawl. Companies are hiring now because they did not for a long while. Try asking someone who was looking for a job in 2009 (myself included). There were no jobs to be had. But even now that they are hiring, they are still hiring very very slowly.
And why are many local gov’ts not hiring and/or laying off? Because they have far less revenue than before. Remember that local (state, county, or city) gov’ts make their money from income tax, sales tax, of property tax. All of that is down.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average peaked on 1/7/2000 at 11522.56. It then declined to a low of 7891.08 on 2/28/2003 — more than a year and a half after the Bush tax cuts were enacted. So much for their efficacy at stimulating the economy.</i>
That downturn in the economy came about from a bubble bursting; tax cuts had nothing to do with it. I remember talking with a good friend of mine before the 2000 elections (as the dot coms were tanking). He is a staunch democrat, like yourself. He had the intellectual honesty to say that the next president, from either party, is going to inherit an economy that is going to falter.
I heard that they four letters were code for the soldiers on what to do (attack, retreat, etc.). I have not heard what each letter represents.
hey charlie,
if the economy is doing so well, how come there is so much unemployment?
The private sector is not hiring because of Obama’s bad economic decisions. His laws, like health care, are scaring employers from hiring anyone.
Liberals seem to think that you can keep taxing people and making restrictive laws and nothing will change. No, charlie, people react to their environment.
The gov’t can’t legislate jobs, they can only use laws to create an environment that will be conducive to growth. Taxing employers and obligating them is not a way to create that environment.
<i>If I knew there was hope I could somehow return to a “mainstream religious” community, it would help strengthen my resolve to return </i>
The Rambam at the end of Issurai Bia (22:17) ???? ??? ???? ??? ??? ??? ????, ???? ??? ?????? ?????? ??????? ??????. At that rate one should not be surprised when one hears of various impropriety. So don’t think of yourself as such a big sinner that could not be accepted to the Kehilla.
We don’t know what others do, but we generally assume a Chezkat Kashrut for people. You are no different.
I use K9 for several reasons:
1) Free
2) Works well at filtering categories
3) I set up a time to restrict – all day 7am-10pm – a password is needed for even temp access
4) It forces ‘safe search’ on search engines
cleverjewishpun,
The GR”A pointed out (I saw it many years ago, so forgive me if I’m not quoting perfectly) that if one doesn’t satisfy his urges the normal way, then he will try to satisfy them in an unusual way. I believe that goes for both extremes. For example, a regular person eats a sandwich for lunch, a street bum might steal to get his bread or look in the garbage, and a spoiled rich man will look for more and more titillating food. Neither the street bum nor the spoiled rich man are normal.
Because you were “starving” you went after the unusual. Once you get back to eating a normal lunch, you should get rid of most of your desires. I think that you will still have some Yetser Hara to overcome.
From what I can tell from looking online the Rambam never said “It is better that 1000 fools die to obtain one genuine scholar.”
http://osdir.com/ml/culture.religion.jewish.avodah/2006-01/msg00098.html
Besides which, do we say to go ask someone to violate the Torah in order to support Torah learning? For example, do we ask an ignoramus to carry (where there is no eruv) a Sefer to a Rav on Shabbat so that the Rev can learn? Or should we send someone to work on Shabbat so that he can support a kollel? I really don’t think so, and I think you’d agree.
Why would we create a system that will cause a multitude of Jews to become not observant?
Rabbi Schwab points out (see 2nd link above) that there were gedolim being created in Germany, perhaps in the same proportion to the East European Jews. It’s just there were far more observant Eastern European Jews, so that the numbers of their gedolim were greater.
He also points out that the large amount of great Rabbis being created in Germany ceased generations before German Jews started going to universities, so one cannot say university attendance was the cause.
Rabbi Schwab states “that the claim that the ‘Frankfurt’ approach was not capable of transforming gifted students into geonim in Torah is erroneous”
eclipse,
Maybe you should try to look for employment outside the frum world, where the “yeshivish grapevine” won’t reach.
You can try looking for non-frum landlords also, although that may be harder while staying in a frum community. You may also consider another community.
In Pirkai Avot it says that we should receive people with “Sever Panim Yafot”. I heard that the word ‘Sever’ come from the word ‘sevara’ – a well thought idea. We should compliment with consideration and with deliberate thought.
That being said, I cannot say that I compliment enough, especially those around me.