Whatever happened to that "Anglo-Saxon" model?
Mainly, your preconceptions about welfare basket case countries will be right. Yes. The proportion of GDP spent on welfare in France is phenomenal. But the trend in that direction in the US and Britain will knock you off your chair too
- 18 January 2014
Welfare state as the Ghost of Christmas Past
Scrooge would have loved putting people on welfare. Chain them to a life of state dependency and then rich socialists can just forget about them and turn charity into a dirty word
- 20 December 2013
A world tour of addictive stupidity
Addiction to welfare, deliberately promoted for reckless political aims, is capable of extraordinary damage. The West is about to find out the hard way leaving the door open for a grand circle of history
- 8 May 2012
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