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Ask JTF for Sunday, April 12, 2009
Global Warming is a Hoax:
Dear Chaim, by the time you are reading this it will be Chol Hamoed (intermediate Pesach days) so I would like to wish you a chag sameach. My question this week is something I think all can relate to. Whether it be Shabbat, a holiday, or a family get together I unfortunately have to sit with people that talk about garbage. For example when one Shabbat when I was eating dinner with my family a relative of mine had to say that Barack Obama's wife visited a Jewish soup kitchen, as if to say she's such a nice lady and we should all support her. I responded by saying that I didn't know monkeys were allowed in soup kitchens. This sparked a verbal altercation where this relative said horrible things about conservatives to me and I said I hope someone pisses on Martin Luther King's grave and so on. I feel it's not right when families get together that such animosity should happen and that we should all be joyous together. Unfortunately my nature is that when someone tries to say disgusting hideous things like donating money to the ACLU is more important then studying Torah or Martin Luther King Day is more holy then any Jewish holiday I'm obviously going to snap and am lucky I don't physically lose control. What are your thoughts and have you ever had to deal with the same types of things. Best regards, Aharon
imaknick:
what is your opinion on brigitte gabriel?
דוד בן זאב אריה:
Dear Chaim
What are the health benefits to eating Organic and do you make a point to eat Organic. To me it seems to taste better but at times it can be 3 to 4 times as expensive to eat Organic. For Example some Tomatoes can be 1.50$ per pound but Organic they can be as much as 4$ or more. What is your opinion on this subject I know you make it a point to eat healthy.
Thanks
David Ben Ze'ev Aryeh
PS Have a great Pesach and may we see the coming of the final Redemption
Ulli:
Dear Mr. ben Pesach,
what is your oppinion on the Obama Pessach celebration in the white house? The Jerusalem Post writes, that he invited his gofers like Axelrod as well as Emanuel and his major donators of Jewish background.
Hanna has posted this article about it on the forum: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1238562942442
Sincerly,
Ulli
P.S. I think Reverend Manning is right, if he referres to BHO as the greatest pimp of all. The Long-Legged Mack Daddy has brought more people of all backgrounds to prostitute themselves than everybody before - exept Adolf Hitler.
zachor_ve_kavod:
Dear Chaim,
I want to pose a follow up question to my question on health care last week. What you said makes sense, and I agree that privatized systems are preferable to government run systems. There's no question about this, and I generally agree with the premise that the government's role should be confined to protecting the people.
There is still something that bothers me about the health care issue however. Who is uninsured in America? My guess is that it would be people in lower income jobs, like some cooks or convenience store clerks and so on. What happens to them if they get a serious illness? I don't know the answer to that question. Do hospitals refuse to treat them? Are they helped by private charities? Are there publicly funded hospitals for them?
It doesn't seem right to me that these people not be helped if they are sick, although I admit I don't know if that is in fact what happens. This is why I generally prefer a privatized health care system with some provisions for helping those less fortunate. I don't know if totally private is the right thing, if it means that some people will just be out of luck.
So my question is, under the current system in America, are the poor generally left uncared for? And do you think that a private system should have some provisions for helping them, or should it be left to private charities? Or are my premises wrong?
Thanks,
Zachor_ve_kavod.
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