[grey_whiskers]

Hilaire Belloc, incidentally, foresaw this very clearly in his book The Servile State in 1912 – before teenagers or record collections had been invented.

Pardon my enthusiasm, but HUZZAH!

He knows Belloc!

If you add Belloc and Chesterton to Krauthammer et al., then you're getting somewhere.

Try reading The Servile State--it predicted Socialism and the Welfare State as the inevitable outcome of the conflict of Communism and Capitalism--not only before the Russian Revolution in 1917, but before World War ONE !

Cheers!

[maica]

The warning signs were there is 1905. We are tracking what happened at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century very closely. I cannot even imagine what our world may be like by the year 2018. Somehow worrying about Social Security funding is the least of my fears.