When Responsibility Doesn’t Pay (Welfare always breeds contempt.)

National Review online ^ | February 27, 2010 | The great Mark Steyn

[Vigilanteman]

Steyn sure puts things in terms which anyone can understand if they have the brains to think it through.

[Frantzie]

He is a wonderful writer and is often hilarious when he fills in for Rush.

[Niuhuru]

For the past two years I’ve lived around people how have lived life on welfare. Drama queens all the way.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

If you know a liberal, read this article to him.

[Question Liberal Authority]

compared to Spain and Italy, Greece has the least worst fertility rate in Mediterranean Europe.

I blame the "Mediterranean Diet". Get those people some saturated fat and refined carbohydrates, stat.

[kickme]

Yikes painfully true....I guess the only way out is a war?!? WWIII anyone?

[Kaslin]

Hence my description. The great Mark Steyn.

(I do that with Thomas Sowell too)

[Cacique]

btt

[TokuMei]

Mark Steyn did not graduate from any college, and yet I understand more from ONE of his paragraphs than I took away from any tome by Krugman.

Do you suppose college MAKES one stupid...?

[perfect_rovian_storm]

Fantastic article.

[Graybeard58]

If you know a liberal, read this article to him.

They still wouldn't get it. I can hear them now, "Greece doesn't have 0bama, we do", he will make it work here.

[aliquando]

I took care of that tonight! One big ol’ plate of ribs!

[Question Liberal Authority]

A grateful nation thanks you for your service.

[dennisw]

Yeah Steyn here gets right down to the nitty gritty. Easy to understand unless you have an inner need to be brainwashed by leftist illusions

A huge structure of debt based retirements are built by borrowing from generations not even born yet. Can you you pull off this type of borrowing? It’s been going OK for years but now big cracks are showing because the lenders are having doubts that the borrowers are good for the money. All this is deflationary as debt, obligations, pensions promises evaporate meaning (illusory) money and wealth evaporates. So you wake up poorer the next day when you find out your pension will now be $2000/month instead of $4000/month. Because the money/wealth backing it up was not as great as everyone was lead to belive

[dennisw]

Steyn graduated from the school of hard knocks and is widely traveled. Has been a journalist/writer in many nations more so in his younger years. He is very well rounded in my book

[rawhide]

Very informative and true to the hilt!

[Kaslin]

Have you ever heard of educated idiot? I give you one example

[sinanju]

But of course total societal collapse is the ultimate goal, a la Cloward-Piven.

Totally destroy the capitalist social order in the faith that a beautiful socialist utopia will arise phoenix-like from the ashes.

[sinanju]

Think of the poor EU-muslims! What’s going to happen when their welfare checks stop coming? Oh sure, they can take over the place but who’s going to run it for them?