Mark Steyn writes about the riots in England and tying them to the cradle to grave welfare state in England.
The Desparation of Deprivation Myth
This was one poignant remark;
The rioters, meanwhile, have a crude understanding of how the system works. The proprietor of a Bang & Olufsen franchise revealed that the looters had expressed mystification as to why he objected to them stealing his goods. After all, he was insured, wasn’t he? So the insurance would pay for his stolen TVs and DVD players, wouldn’t it? The notion that, ultimately, someone has to pay for the insurance seemed to elude them, in the same way it seems to elude our elites that ultimately someone has to pay for Britain’s system of “National Insurance” — o
This was one poignant remark;
The rioters, meanwhile, have a crude understanding of how the system works. The proprietor of a Bang & Olufsen franchise revealed that the looters had expressed mystification as to why he objected to them stealing his goods. After all, he was insured, wasn’t he? So the insurance would pay for his stolen TVs and DVD players, wouldn’t it? The notion that, ultimately, someone has to pay for the insurance seemed to elude them, in the same way it seems to elude our elites that ultimately someone has to pay for Britain’s system of “National Insurance” — o
r what Canada calls “Social Insurance” and America “Social Security.”
Mark later in the article talks about a new breed of liberals that want to work for the state , or non-profit entities and he brings up as an example the late Jack Layton that was leader of the New Democratic party in Canada.
Jack was the son of a successful Piano Manufacturer and Mark expounds that his non profit socialist type programs were funded by businesses like his fathers but people will only see his government programs as his great work and won't remember that without the huge profits from the piano business the programs would never be possible.
