The Real Welfare Queens: Not Blacks but Hasidic Jews.

[Dr. Acula]

Welfare Reform? Not For The Orthodox


So New York Brehs, who are usually blamed as the welfare abusers and users up there?

That afternoon, Seth Mandel chimed in to praise the Orthodox world capable of such fecundity. While liberals give to universalist causes, the Orthodox yeshivaworld boasts “a significant communal support network, in addition to classic charitable giving.” Orthodox Jews “possess an admirable and energetic sense of duty to one another,” which may be the reason they are “the source of the positive trends in the study.”

You know what else they possess? Staggering quantities of public assistance. Take the overwhelmingly Hasidic Kiryas Joel, the poorest place in America. As theTimes reported last year, “half of [its] residents receive food stamps, and one third receive Medicaid benefits and rely on federal vouchers to help pay their housing costs.” And boy, do they have children: The median household in Kiryas Joel has six people, and the median age is twelve. Many of its men learn Torah full-time instead of working, and the community’s low high-school graduation rate would be even lower if its religious schools had real academic standards. These kids are hardly being “socialized to the world of work.” And it’s not just Kiryas Joel: back in 1996, at the heart of “welfare reform,” a full third of Williamsburg’s Hasidim received public assistance.

Welfare is, and has been for some time, a crucial ingredient in these communities. While Hasidim take care of their own, they also get taxpayers to take care of them. Like Israeli Haredim, Kiryas Joel’s Hasidim vote together to secure, for instance, a “luxurious 60-bed postnatal maternal care center… built with $10 million in state and federal grants.” Off the record, New York City officials admit that Williamsburg’s Hasidim “work the system,” and experts who don’t have to be reelected come out and just admit there’s widespread fraud. As Shmarya Rosenberg has argued, the Haredi birthrate, to be sustainable, requires large and consistent infusions of cash from outside. In Williamsburg, welfare really is a lifestyle.

 

[Dr. Acula]

As of the census[11] of 2000, there were 13,138 people, 2,229 households, and 2,137 families residing in the village. The population density was 11,962.2 people per square mile (4,611.5/km2). There were 2,233 housing units at an average density of 2,033.2 per square mile (783.8/km2). The racial makeup of the village was 99.02% White, 0.21% African American, 0.02% Asian, 0.12% from other races, and 0.63% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.93% of the population.

Kiryas Joel has the highest percentage of people who reported Hungarian ancestry in the United States, as 18.9% of the population reported Hungarian ancestry in 2000.[5] 3% of the residents of Kiryas Joel were Israeli, 2%Romanian, 1% Polish, and 1% European.[12]

The median income for a household in the village was $15,138, and the median income for a family was $15,372. Males had a median income of $25,043 versus $16,364 for females. The per capita income for the village was $4,355. About 61.7% of families and 62.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 63.9% of those under age 18 and 50.5% of those age 65 or over.

According to 2008 census figures, the village has the highest poverty rate in the nation, and the largest percentage of residents who receive food stamps. More than five-eighths of Kiryas Joel residents live below the federal poverty line and more than 40 percent receive food stamps, according to the American Community Survey, a U.S. Census Bureau study of every place in the country with 20,000 residents or more.[4] A 2011 New York Times report noted that, despite the town's very high statistical poverty rates, "It has no slums or homeless people. No one who lives there is shabbily dressed or has to go hungry. Crime is virtually nonexistent."[15]

 

[#1 pick]

White ppl are the biggest abusers of welfare but white ppl want them to have it and want us with nothing or in jail.

 

[Dr. Acula]

White ppl are the biggest abusers of welfare but white ppl want them to have it and want us with nothing or in jail.

Pretty much. These "unnamed" politician they talked too was like "yeah...they abuse the system" but you don't see that same red face rage about it if these people were black.

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

There are towns in upstate NY that are entirely welfare run and inhabited by hasidics. Slums too.

 

[Dr. Acula]

Bump because this really blew my mind when I first heard it.

 

[agnosticlady]

White ppl are the biggest abusers of welfare but white ppl want them to have it and want us with nothing or in jail.

Lol this is true....There were and still are a lot of welfare programs for whites.

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

Yes those Jews are ridiculous up here In the city. There like little cockroaches with hats on man. I have no idea how they have jobs with like 7 kids. It's ridiculous.

 

[Dave24]

Yes those Jews are ridiculous up here In the city. There like little cockroaches with hats on man. I have no idea how they have jobs with like 7 kids. It's ridiculous.

Bump.

What types of careers do male Hasidic Jews have?

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

Bump.

What types of careers do male Hasidic Jews have?

they have their own ambulance service, police division, sell wigs for their women, etc...
they also tend to handle legal matters within their own community so they go to some special Rabbi who gets paid to settle shyt for them.

they got a true hustle going on multiple fronts.

 

[Dave24]

they have their own ambulance service, police division, sell wigs for their women, etc...
they also tend to handle legal matters within their own community so they go to some special Rabbi who gets paid to settle shyt for them.

they got a true hustle going on multiple fronts.

Do you know what their work ethic is like? Are they lazy and just abuse welfare?

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

Do you know what their work ethic is like? Are they lazy and just abuse welfare?

they are probably like most other groups of people in that respect...some are pieces of shyt, some are hard working...and then you have everything in-between.
all i really know is that they usually roll deep and they dress funny.

 

[Blessings]

subs for later

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

Man, if this thread was about Black folks, this would be a platinum thread.

 

[Dave24]

why aren't more people discussing this issue?