Why can US politicians be more like this guy?

[Svnla]

Gotta love what he did and said. Imagine if a politician said/did such things in the US, he would be chase out of town and label as a bigot and racist and all the nasty words.

Newly minted Finance Minister Yair Lapid, hugely popular for opposing the long-standing preferential treatment enjoyed by the religious minority, is moving swiftly to slash state handouts to large families, compel lifelong seminary students to work and join the army, and remove funding for schools that don't teach math, science and English...

...also seeks to allow subsidies for child day care only if both parents work...

..."If hundreds of thousands of healthy people do not work, and live on pensions arranged for them by means of immoral political agreements, then we have sold the interests of the working man, and we must change this," Lapid told a Tel Aviv conference this week...

...He then accused the ultra-Orthodox of encouraging large birth rates in order to take advantage of state child subsidies. "The body that is responsible for funding children is called their parents," he said. ..

http://news.yahoo.com/culture-war-israel-targets-ultra-orthodox-jews-201857374.html

 

[nehalem256]

also seeks to allow subsidies for child day care only if both parents work

Sounds like he is engaging in a war on women. At least that is what Democrats would say. And exactly the reason why a politician like him wouldn't stand a chance here.