Swedish welfare system under spotlight as armless man denied disability parking permit
Sweden's bizarre bureaucratic system is under the spotlight after an armless man was denied a disability parking permit on account of the fact that he still has legs, and can therefore walk
- 23 May 2015
Dependency, work and the growing welfare state
You can't create wealth and lift people out of poverty by strangling the work ethic. But that is the favourite hobby of the political classes whose social populism has led to ballooning welfare programmes
- 28 April 2015
The joy of welfare funded holidays in the sun
Britain's welfare system never ceases to amaze. The story of a single mother and her 10 month old daughter taking a round-the-world trip on benefit payments is frankly jaw-dropping
- 25 February 2015
Voting for dependency, and poverty
The Left just does not understand (or doesn't care) that the greatest risk is that people get trapped in dependency. We see that in advanced nations like the US and UK, and the Third World too
- 14 October 2014
UK dealing with welfare, and employment is growing
When you add together the panoply of redistribution programs operated by government, it’s easy to see why far too many people are being trapped in government dependency. When you untrap them, you get jobs, as Britain shows
- 25 July 2014
Labour’s lust for Benefits Street Britain
For many years Labour prepared the foundations and constructed the architecture of Benefits Street Britain. So cruel was their welfare trap that our country will take decades to recover from it
- 23 June 2014
How to sponge off taxpayers, and do it in style
To be honest, cutting off your own foot to maintain handouts from the state sets something of a low point in welfare sponging. But boy, are there some competitors...
- 23 April 2014
Archbishop of welfare dependency
What is so frustrating about clergy jumping on populist bandwagons is it gets a lot of airtime for a complete misrepresentation of what the government is trying to do to help people live better lives
- 19 February 2014
Welfare multiplied by demographics equals doom
Any type of pay-as-you-go welfare state becomes increasingly expensive when there are more and more old people and fewer and fewer young workers. See the killer graph showing why some nations are doomed
- 10 February 2014
Britain shows America the need for "poverty porn"
Television reality shows in Britain exposing welfare fraud are getting the mass explosion in UK welfare on the agenda. The squishy Cameron government is at least under pressure for change. America needs that too
- 25 January 2014
UKIP's stance on welfare a better fit with the public mood
If the Tories really believe that every cut to welfare will be welcomed, no matter how savage, they have misread the British people. UKIP’s competition-based, compassionate politics is a better fit with the public mood
- 23 January 2014
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
How welfare redistributes income from Blacks to Whites
Remarkable study from Left-leaning institute says welfare redistributes from Hispanics, blacks, and other people of colour to whites. This will put the cat among the Left's ideological pigeons
- 4 January 2014
A merry Christmas for Washington's parasite class
Simply stated, government is a racket that benefits the DC political elite by taking money from average people in America (it's the same in Europe too). Corrupt insiders are using your money to buy their Christmas presents
- 23 December 2013
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
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