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Idle young should be entitled to nothing
Times Online ^ | 8/30/2009 | Michael Portillo

Posted on 08/30/2009 7:32:22 AM PDT by TheNewPundit

The state “should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility”, wrote Sir William Beveridge in the 1942 report that inspired the post-war welfare state. “In establishing a national minimum it should leave room and encouragement for voluntary action by each individual to provide more than that minimum for himself and his family.”

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: socialism

1 posted on 08/30/2009 7:32:22 AM PDT by TheNewPundit
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To: TheNewPundit

Spot on! sometimes a Brit analyzes us as well or better than we do ourselves.


2 posted on 08/30/2009 7:59:08 AM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., gettin' hot down there today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: TheNewPundit

Or, as St. Paul once said;”Let him that will not work, also not eat.”


3 posted on 08/30/2009 8:51:07 AM PDT by Mogollon (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: TheNewPundit

The modern state is waging war against human society, and it’s winning.


4 posted on 08/30/2009 9:10:53 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism - "Who-whom?")
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