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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Spot on! sometimes a Brit analyzes us as well or better than we do ourselves.
Or, as St. Paul once said;”Let him that will not work, also not eat.”
The modern state is waging war against human society, and it’s winning.
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