The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Tuesday, July 15, 2003  

PULLING AWAY FROM SOCIALISM
Over to You, Mickey

The Philadelphia Inquirer, by way of the Knight-Ridder News Service, reports Israel is trying to wean itself away from the pervasive socialism in that country that American neoconservatives and right-wingers would prefer you not know about.

Today’s subject: Vicki Knafo, one of virtually countless recipients of the Israeli treasury’s welfare largesse -- according to Knight-Ridder, child allowances are “paid to every Israeli, rich or poor” -- and funds that Israeli Finance Minister and all-around nasty and dishonest guy Benjamin Netnayahu is trying, with limited success, to cut off, partly at the behest of the Bush administration, which, I guess, is getting tired of subsidizing Israel’s budgetary sloth.

It’s in your hands now, Mickey.

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