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myfriend, finding a situation abhorrant (choosing to rely on government services rather than getting a job) does not make someone an anti-semite. Especially since they don’t only hate this behavior in Jews – they hate it in all segments of society. Please do not call someone an anti-semite unless they exhibit anti-semitic behavior as it dilutes the real claims of anti-semitism. Think of the boy who cried wolf.
Please cite where you get that information. Please show me that the percentage of Jews on government services is less than the overall population. Please show me how we pay more taxes – we generally have more children and give to charitable organizations, hence we lower our tax rates.
Just because you are “entitled” to a service, doesn’t mean you should take it. Do you do that with Judaism also? You never look into the spirit of the law or try to go lefnim meshuras hadin? Do you never try to avoid a leniency, even though its technically ok?
They don’t support other people playing the system. They just don’t like the way Jews have systematically set up a system to allow this.
One person actually told me that they prefer many of the illegal immigrants to people who leech off of government services because many illegal immigrants work really hard and the leechers contribute very little.