Underclass Needed
Gaps Widening Between Rich and Poor(IsraelNN.com) According to a new Adva study published Saturday evening, the gaps between the rich and poor are growing wider, not only in the economic sector but in educational opportunities as well. Managers of the Top 25 companies listed on the stock exchange earned a combined total of NIS 4 million per company in 2003; last year the figure was more than double, at NIS 10.4. Approximately a third of wage earners at or below the poverty line (32.7 percent) earned salaries that were minimum wage or lower, in 2006.
In 2004, 49.2 percent of high school students were eligible for a matriculation diploma – the figure dropped by approximately 3 percent in 2005 (46.4 percent) and even lower last year, 45.9 percent. Moreover, last year more than half of children from wealthy families, 56 percent, were accepted to colleges and universities, compared to only 10.3 percent of students from the lowest income families.
If the members of Knesset cared about the Israeli people this would not be allowed to continue.
I once told a ranking member of the Ministry of Education a dream I had about building a way out of poverty for the underclass of Israel that would involve a joint venture of private industry and the government.
The response that I received shocked me as this person told me the government would never allow this to happen as they needed an underclass to rule over.
We have an obligation as Jews to help lift up our fellow Jews.
I know given the right education and guidance the child that today is being left behind due to economic reasons if given a chance could grow up into the adult that could find the cure for cancer or aids or solve the energy crisis of the world.
By investing in all of our children we eliminate an under class and this fill bring a greater degree of freedom and liberty to the political process in Israel. Even more important than this is the more Israel can improve the world the greater value we are to the world the greater the long term viability of Israel.
