...Big Government debauches not only a nation's finances but its human capital, too.
...one-fifth of children are raised in homes in which no adult works in which the weekday ritual of rising, dressing and leaving for gainful employment is entirely unknown. One-tenth of the adult population has done not a day's work since Tony Blair took office on May 1, 1997.
If you were born into such a household, you've been comprehensively "stimulated" into the dead-eyed zombies staggering about the streets this past week: pathetic inarticulate subhumans unable even to grunt the minimal monosyllables to BBC interviewers desperate to appease their pathologies. C'mon, we're not asking much: just a word or two about how it's all the fault of government "cuts" like the leftie columnists argue. And yet even that is beyond these baying beasts.
...Her Majesty's cowed and craven politically correct constabulary stand around with their riot shields and Robocop gear as young rioters lob concrete through store windows to steal the electronic toys which provide their only non-narcotic or alcoholic amusement. I chanced to be in Piccadilly for the springtime riots when the police failed to stop the mob from smashing the windows of the Ritz and other upscale emporia, so it goes without saying that they wouldn't lift a finger to protect less-prestigious private property from thugs. Some of whom are as young as 9 years old. And girls.
Yet a police force all but entirely useless when it comes to preventing crime or maintaining public order has time to police everything else. When Sam Brown observed en passant to a mounted policeman on Cornmarket Street in Oxford, "Do you know your horse is gay?", he was surrounded within minutes by six officers and a fleet of patrol cars, handcuffed, tossed in the slammer overnight, and fined 80 pounds.
...This is the logical dead end of the Nanny State. When William Beveridge laid out his blueprint for the British welfare regime in 1942, his goal was the "abolition of want" to be accomplished by "co-operation between the State and the individual." In attempting to insulate the citizenry from life's vicissitudes, Sir William succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. As I write in my book: "Want has been all but abolished. Today, fewer and fewer Britons want to work, want to marry, want to raise children, want to lead a life of any purpose or dignity."
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There is no Truth and there is no God. Values are relative. It all depends on what you "feel" is right "for you". There is no right and wrong and if it feels good why, then.... do it. All that Judeo-Christian BS is for nerds and suckers. Everybody owes it to me.
I want what's fair, I want more.
And i don't want a job.
All the rules are just made up anyway, right? There IS no one and nothing over the individuals decision about what they think is good for them personally. And what is good for an individual is his own self interest. I can attack you in the street and take what you have because I want it. There ain't no right and wrong. Shut up and give me your wallet and take off your clothes. And gays are just as good as everybody else. Sometimes they are better. What's wrong with a whole lifestyle that revolves around MY penis, anyway?
God is just made up and its all baloney. Gimme...and be quick about it. Rules are for suckers and I have my "rights".
Work is for suckers too. You can't tell ME what to do, I have my "rights".
But we all have "rights"...based on nothing, of course, except "what's fair"...which is another way of saying what we find most advantageous to our self interests.
If we "get some" for nuthin'.... then of course, that's what's "fair".
You diss off to ME, mofo..... and I will burn your house down and take everything you have.I dont think any of the gay cops should carry guns anyway, it might interfere with my "rights".
See you in Church, Dwayne.
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I believe it is regarded as a sign of insanity to start quoting oneself, but at the risk of trying your patience I'll try one more, because it's the link between America's downgraded debt and Britain's downgraded citizenry:
"The evil of such a system is not the waste of money but the waste of people."
Big Government means small citizens: it corrodes the integrity of a people, catastrophically. Within living memory, the city in flames on our TV screens every night governed a fifth of the Earth's surface and a quarter of its population. When you're imperialists on that scale, there are bound to be a few mishaps along the way. But nothing the British Empire did to its subject peoples has been as total and catastrophic as what a post-great Britain did to its own.
There are lessons for all of us there.
Unfortunately nobody (besides us and TeaPartiers) are interested in listening...
Posted by: CrazyFool in the Philippines ||
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a police force all but entirely useless when it comes to preventing crime or maintaining public order has time to police everything else.
There have been lots of comments on British websites about this pattern, and 'attitude' on the part of the police. One wrote of a middle-aged, middle-class Britisher asking a PC riding a bicycle in an area marked 'no bicycles', "Is bicycle riding allowed here?" The PC didn't answer the question and then threatened to arrest him for obstructing police business.
This is the logical dead end of the Nanny State. When William Beveridge laid out his blueprint for the British welfare regime in 1942, his goal was the "abolition of want" to be accomplished by "co-operation between the State and the individual." In attempting to insulate the citizenry from life's vicissitudes, Sir William succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. As I write in my book: "Want has been all but abolished. Today, fewer and fewer Britons want to work, want to marry, want to raise children, want to lead a life of any purpose or dignity."
is factually incorrect?
Posted by: no mo uro ||
08/16/2011 13:41 Comments ||
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Why do you insist on being rude and insulting when the same thing can be said without being rude and insulting, Shakey Steve? I know a number of physicists and mathematicians, and all of them, uniformly, are polite and charming. It can't be because you are merely an MS, as even the one who was all-but-dissertation, as they say, had those characteristics. Nor can it be because you are Canadian, as most of the
Canadians I know are also polite and charming.
So what the fuck is your excuse for acting like the kind of unmitigated, thirteen year old ass that prompted Mark Twain to prescribe nailing them all into a barrel, feeding them through the bung hold until they reached majority, then pounding in the bung? You shame every set you are part of by choosing such behavior when you are so capable of doing otherwise.
Entrepreneurship and the work ethic are more dominant, now?
Most importantly, there were more people on public assistance in the 1940's than now?
Your data set is flawed, if you believe any of those things. All the facts point the other way. But don't let the facts interrupt your crappy little subhuman narrative.
Posted by: no mo uro ||
08/16/2011 14:18 Comments ||
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What part of Mr. Steyn's statement is incorrect, Shakey?
Entrepreneurship in Britain is down. Unemployment is up. The number of people on the dole is up.
The marriage rate in Britain is down. The fertility rate is down in all groups except Muslims.
And one really can't claim that people are living 'lives of purpose' when they're loot appliance stores.
So tell me, what part did Mr. Steyn get wrong?
Posted by: Steve White ||
08/16/2011 14:28 Comments ||
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Tut, tut, tw. You're letting him get to you. He seems to me like the kind of juvenile who thrives on attention and doesn't care how he gets it. Try ignoring him and maybe he'll go away.
#10
"Unless you are suggesting that the US government should force its citizenship upon him?"
Yes I am cuz, let me tell you, we don't want him...
Posted by: Shakey Steve ||
08/16/2011 14:45 Comments ||
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Yes I am cuz, let me tell you, we don't want him...
Posted by: Shakey Steve
"We"? LOL you and your imaginary friends?
Posted by: Frank G on the road ||
08/16/2011 15:05 Comments ||
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You go, tw! :-D
Posted by: Barbara ||
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People! Please! Remember rule #3: Don't feed the trolls.
They thrive on recognition but wilt when ignored.
Lacking attention they just . . . eventually . . . . go away.
On behalf of all Canadians who, like me, have been enjoying the delights of 15 year old Laphroaig this afternoon, I wish to apologize for the behaviour and singular lack of manners that have been displayed by "Silly Steve" who claims to be a Canadian but doesn't act like one.
His keyboard diarrehoea is NOT indicative of the thoughts of a thinking Canuckistanian adult, but rather is the result of an attention-requiring personality seeking fodder for its greatest psychological need. The pathology is quite clear.
Ya know . . . this 15 year old Laphroaig is GREAT stuff!!
#14
"Ya know . . . this 15 year old Laphroaig is GREAT stuff!!"
Can I have some of what your drinking? Clearly its altering your perception of reality...
Posted by: Shakey Steve ||
08/16/2011 16:06 Comments ||
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By the way, it's not "Canuckistanian adult" but "Canuck adult"...unless in Winnipeg your taught to call Afghans "Afghanistanians"...which wouldn't surprise me...
Posted by: Shakey Steve ||
08/16/2011 16:10 Comments ||
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Canuckistan sniper, no need to apologize for an idiot just because he's (alas) a fellow countryman. I don't apologize for Bambi et al.
We know he's not the real Canada. In fact, he sounds more like a left coast left-wing wanna-be who would be much happier in an echo chamber like the puffington host (or worse), but I suppose he (it?) has a Canadian IP address. More's the pity.
Posted by: Barbara ||
08/16/2011 16:21 Comments ||
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My hat's off to the magnificent bastard who created Shakey Steve since it caused us to examine and articulate the absurdity of the Left
Posted by: jack salami ||
08/16/2011 16:25 Comments ||
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but I suppose he (it?) has a Canadian IP address
#22
I still prefer Oban, but I'd never turn down a glass of single malt.
I already gave Simple Stevie the wishes that he'd seek professional medical help for his sad delusions, but it was a futile wish I'm sure. He'd rather wallow in stupidity and ignorance instead.
Congratulations Stevie, you are now classified as vermin and therefore will be ignored as unworthy of notice.
Posted by: Silentbrick - Halliburton Lost Drill Bit Division ||
08/16/2011 18:11 Comments ||
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Don't give up Shakey Steve, listen to TW and approach RB with Humility.
If you have an F-150 story that would be good too.
Posted by: S ||
08/16/2011 18:23 Comments ||
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I once drove a fullsize Bronco crammed with 11 mens, wimmins and childrens (including the Navaho guide) through Canyon De Chelly without any major injuries.
I used to be a mathematician: Publish or Perish, and I perished. I have known some amazingly nasty mathematicians in my time, and some who were just loud and forceful. I'm not giving names because it wouldn't do any good.
My area of mathematics was Riemann Surfaces and Teichmüller Spaces; Teichmüller was a Nazi who published in the only Jüdenrein journal in mathematical history, and was MIA on the Russian front.
Posted by: Eric Jablow ||
08/16/2011 20:20 Comments ||
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Obviously he was captured by the Russians and sent to a Gulag, where he was whipped daily by evil KGB agents who forced him to produce new and wonderful math which they then burned in front of him.
And my work truck is an F-150. Did you know that sliding sideways down a hill toward a river in an F-150 at 50 mph at night during freaking winter is NOT a fun thing? But to it's credit, a little gas and proper steering straightened it out and I did not fly out into the river to land with a splash. So, while I might malign ford sometimes, I will give it the proper dues and note that it is a fine and comfy truck that has gotten me everywhere I needed to go, be there snow, ice, mud, or some bizarre combo thereof. Good truck.
Posted by: Silentbrick - Halliburton Lost Drill Bit Division ||
08/16/2011 20:30 Comments ||
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Eric, I shall happily add you to my list of polite and charming mathematicians. I always attributed the nastiness to clever idiots lacking the key social skill of understanding that when one annoys others, they won,t let him play with their toys, and that isn,t worth the momentary amusement.
Publish or perish is the ruination of academia, but I don,t doubt the outside world benefitted from your transfer.
[An Nahar] British Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... announced Monday a sweeping review of government policy to reverse a "slow-motion moral collapse" that he blames for last week's riots that left five people dead.
He also pledged an "all-out war" on street gangs as Britannia struggles to find answers to its worst civil disorder for decades, which tarnished the country's image abroad just a year before London hosts the 2012 Olympic Games.
"This has been a wake-up call for our country. Social problems that have been festering for decades have went kaboom! in our face," Cameron said in a speech at a youth club in his affluent rural constituency in Witney, central England.
"Do we have the determination to confront the slow-motion moral collapse that has taken place in parts of our country these past few generations?" he asked, against a backdrop of colorful graffiti at the club.
Children as young 11 joined the four-day frenzy of looting, arson and violence which spread from London to other major English cities including Manchester and Birmingham, leaving dozens of homes and businesses in flames.
The Conservative premier has flooded the streets with police to prevent further unrest while more than 2,300 people have been nabbed, but Cameron said that the "security fightback must be matched by a social fightback."
He said the coalition government -- which came to power in May 2010 promising austerity measures to cut a record deficit -- would in the coming weeks review "every aspect of our work to mend our broken society."
A day after he controversially hired U.S. "supercop" Bill Bratton to advise the government on tackling street gangs, Cameron said there should be a "concerted, all-out war on gangs and gang culture".
"Stamping out these gangs is a new national priority," Cameron said, describing them as a "major criminal disease that has infected streets and estates across our country."
Cameron said the government would look at toughening conditions for those who receive unemployment and other benefits, trying to improve parenting skills and schools in deprived areas.
He said Britannia would use its current chairmanship of the Council of Europe to seek to push through changes to the European Convention on Human Rights, saying it had "undermined personal responsibility."
Addressing calls for the reintroduction of national military service, Cameron added that he was introducing a program of "National Citizen Service" to get 16-year-olds carrying out voluntary work.
In a taste of harsher measures to come, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith separately told the BBC that people convicted of being involved in the riots could lose their benefits even if they do not receive a custodial sentence.
Labor opposition leader Ed Miliband was reportedly to accuse Cameron of "knee-jerk gimmicks" in a rival speech on Monday.
Cameron's speech came a day after he faced criticism from police chiefs who opposed his decision to hire Bratton, who is credited for tackling gang violence in New York, Los Angeles and Boston. Police chiefs say Britannia needs home-grown policies.
Top coppers and the opposition have also called on the government to reverse its plans to slash police budgets.
Interior minister Theresa May chaired a meeting of the government's COBRA security committee on Monday at which it is expected to decide whether to scale down the surge of officers on London's streets, currently at 16,000.
Courts in England have been working through the night and, in a first, on Sunday to clear the massive backlog of cases from the riots.
Three people were due to appear in court later Monday over the murder of three men who were hit by a car while defending their neighborhood against looters in Birmingham, Britannia's second city.
More than 5,000 people observed a minute's silence at a peace rally for the victims in Birmingham on Sunday.
Tariq Jahan -- who is the father of one of the victims and emerged as a heroic figure with his calls for peace after his death -- told the gathering that the display of unity gave him "strength in my heart".
A 16-year-old boy was also nabbed on Sunday on suspicion of the murder of a 68-year-old man who was attacked as he tried to put out a fire in the west London borough of Ealing.
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From Mark Steyn:
This is the logical dead end of the Nanny State. When William Beveridge laid out his blueprint for the British welfare regime in 1942, his goal was the "abolition of want" to be accomplished by "co-operation between the State and the individual." In attempting to insulate the citizenry from life's vicissitudes, Sir William succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. As I write in my book: "Want has been all but abolished. Today, fewer and fewer Britons want to work, want to marry, want to raise children, want to lead a life of any purpose or dignity."
'Bout sums it up. In any given population, there are 30% of people who want to work and produce, 30% who naturally don't, and 40% who could go either way. Collectivism in all its forms (fascism, communism, socialism, social democracy, Labor party, Democrats) pushes that 40% in the direction of being bottom dwelling sessile filter-feeding sea creatures, not the other way towards the light.
Call me cruel if it makes you feel morally superior, but unless and until we reintroduce the idea that able-bodied folks who choose to not work will suffer huge deprivation up to and including starving, this will only continue.
If only it weren't so. But it is.
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"Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led."
WHAT? Makes absolutely no sense...which is par for the course, coming from the knuckle-dragging Bushites posting here...
Posted by: Shakey Steve ||
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"'Bout sums it up. In any given population, there are 30% of people who want to work and produce, 30% who naturally don't, and 40% who could go either way. Collectivism in all its forms ...blah, blah, sputter, blah."
Do you have evidence to back up these numbers, Sherlock?
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So they begane to thinke how they might raise as much corne as they could, and obtaine a beter crope then they had done, that they might not still thus languish in miserie. At length, after much debate of things, the Gov r (with y e advise of y e cheefest amongest them) gave way that they should set corne every man for his owne perticuler, and in that regard trust to them selves ; in all other things to goe on in y e generall way as before. And so assigned to every family a parcell of land, according to the proportion of their number for that end, only for present use (but made no devission for inheritance), and ranged all boys & youth under some familie. This had very good success; for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corne was planted then other waise would have bene by any means y c Grov r or any other could use, and saved him a great deall of trouble, and gave farr better contente. The women now wente willingly into y e feild, and tooke their litle-ons with them to set corne, which before would aledg weaknes, and inabilitie ; whom to have compelled would have bene thought great tiranie and oppression.
The experience that was had in this comone course and condition, tried sundrie years, and that amongst godly and sober men, may well evince the vanitie of that conceite of Platos & other ancients, applauded by some of later times ; that y e taking away of propertie, and bringing in comunitie into a comone wealth, would make them happy and florishing ; as if they were wiser then God. For this comunitie (so farr as it was) was found to breed much confusion & discontent, and retard much imploymet that would have been to their benefite and comforte. For y e yong-men that were most able and fitte for labour & service did repine that they should spend their time & streingth to worke for other mens wives and chil- dren, with out any recompence. The strong, or man of parts, had no more in devission of victails & cloaths, then he that was weake and not able to doe a quarter y e other could ; this was thought injuestice. The aged and graver men to be ranked and equalised in labours, and victails, cloaths, &c., with y e meaner & yonger sorte, thought it some indignite & disrespect unto them. And for mens wives to be commanded to doe servise for other men, as dresing their meate, wash- ing their cloaths, &c., they deemd it a kind of slaverie, neither could many husbands well brooke it. Upon y e poynte all being to have alike, and all to doe alike, they thought them selves in y e like condition, and one as good' as another; and so, if it did not cut of those relations that God hath set amongest men, yet it did at least much diminish and take of y e mutuall respects that should be preserved amongst them. And would have bene worse if they had been men of another condition. Let none objecte this is men's corruption, and nothing to y e course it selfe. I answer, seeing all men have this corruption in them, God in his wisdome saw another course fiter for them.
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Doyou have evidence to back up these numbers, Sherlock?
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that's Mark Steyn, ex-pat Canuck you're arguing with. Don't bring a BB Gun to a real gunfight. In a battle of wits with him, you'd be embarrassed. Mush like everyday in your bleak "life", I suppose
Posted by: Frank G on the road ||
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Is there some mystery link between "moral collapse" and subsidising fecklessness by fining workers for work?
#7
Shakey Steve -- a Mod here with just a bit of advice and history of Rantburg.
Your comment to "Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led."
WHAT?Makes absolutely no sense...which is par for the course, coming from the knuckle-dragging Bushites posting here...
Best to learn the special font Fred uses in his posted articles. He is, after all, the owner of Rantburg. Spends much of his time and resources to provide a space for you to deliver your rants.... at no cost to you.
I wouldn't want to angry him too much. He does own the "kill switch."
#8
The looters are all part of a sub-class who do not share majority values. The fact that UK muslims can set up and enforce "Sharia Zones" with impunity, set the stage for the loot-fest.
Posted by: Injun Oppressor of the Swedes1340 ||
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I'll wait to see if the UK PM follows through on his observations. Something needing to be done early on is to build more prisons to hold the initial wave of miscreants who will be rounded up. Failing that, restore the sentence of 'transportation' to places like the Falklands.
#10
30-40-30 sounds about right in general, with the middle migrating towards the poles depending upon leadership or sloth.
Watch the video of that stage collapse, and note how many got in there from the get-go, how many wondered about asking themself if they could help, and how many just looked puzzled and left.
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'Bout sums it up. In any given population, there are 30% of people who want to work and produce, 30% who naturally don't, and 40% who could go either way
Depends on what race/culture you are looking at some more hardworking/ambitious than others!
Posted by: Paul D ||
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I suspect those percentages are a whole lot different in India.
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