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To: JohnLongIsland
the level of social protection is the highest in the world."

It is *precisely* that "level of social protection" that is one of the causes of riots like this.

When you create a society that pays people to breed and have children, but requires no responsibility from those people, and does not require them to work, in a generation you have created a significant minority of savage, amoral males, who welcome violence as a potent way to feel powerful and as an antidote to boredom and irrelevancy.

8 posted on 11/04/2005 5:46:32 AM PST by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Exactly so. Read the article by Thomas Dalrymple "The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris" posted yesterday or the day before, if you haven't.

If all these "youths" had to work to stay fed, none of this would be happneing.


81 posted on 11/04/2005 9:25:29 AM PST by little jeremiah
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To: marktwain

The link is in comment 21.


83 posted on 11/04/2005 9:27:16 AM PST by little jeremiah
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