nickel and diming the Prime Minister

A reporter, Ayala Hasson if I am not mistaken, reported on a crazy amount of spending by the Bennett family (paid for by the State of Israel) for takeaway meals - to the tune of something like 400nis a day. the report complained that their food is paid for with a cook on the staff anyway, so this is an egregious expense.

The comparison is clear, as one of the ocmplaints against Bibi when he was Prime Minister living in the Balfour Residence was that despite a cook on staff, they ordered a lot of "tv dinner" meals delivered to the house and Bibi was hounded for that.

On the face of it this looks bad for Bennett - he was not elected to do the same as Bibi. they even called themselves the "change government. 

It was later clarified - there is no cook on staff so the meals are ordered in, etc.. but people are already upset by the report, even though it is not nearly as bad as it was first made out to be. you can debate if the State should be paying for food for the entire family or just for the Prime Minister, you can debate how much per diem the State should eb covering, but it clearly is not even close to as bad as it was first made out to be. 

the thing is, I don't really care about this at all. I dont care how much they eat and I dont care about how much the State pays for their food. And I did not care about it when people were upset at Bibi back in the day either. This is small money, no matter how much it is. Do we really need to "nickel and dime" the Prime Minister and his family regarding his food bill. This is silly. The Prime Minister can go out in his motorcade for a day and drive to his office and it probably costs more for the gasoline and security detail for that one trip, let alone back home at night and then again every day along with everywhere else he goes, than it costs for the State to pay his food bill for the month. Being worried about how many meals he orders for the day and at what price is truly nickel and diming the Prime Minister and is a waste of time and looking at small amounts of money that are not all that significant in the context of everything else the State pays for and what is spent on behalf of the Prime Minister.. 

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