Even Scandinavian Welfare States Realize Too Much Dependency and Too Many Handouts Are Destructive
22 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
We’re making a tiny bit of progress in the battle against the welfare state. No, policy hasn’t changed yet, but at least there’s growing recognition that maybe, just maybe, it’s not a good idea to pay people not to work. Particularly when you trap them in lives of dependency and despair and undermine progress in the fight against poverty.
This chart shows that various handouts discourage low-income people from earning more money, and a recent blockbuster study from a couple of my colleagues at the Cato Institute revealed that welfare pays more than entry-level employment in dozens of states.
And a growing number of people are now aware that there’s been an explosion of food stamp dependency, so one hopes that all this knowledge eventually will translate into a new round of welfare reform.
Why am I optimistic? Well, because awareness already is leading to change in some…
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When a plague of aid and NGO professionals descended upon Afghanistan
22 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
Source: Why Nations Fail.
I hate restorative justice. The victim owes the offender nothing, much less enabling a trauma bond to get them a lighter sentence
17 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
No BBC News reporting on Hamas-ISIS tensions
15 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
The BBC’s avoidance of any serious, in-depth reporting on the subject of relations between Hamas and the ISIS franchise based in the Sinai Peninsula has been previously documented on these pages:
Poor BBC reporting on Hamas-ISIS Sinai collaboration highlighted again
When winds began to change on that front last year, the BBC likewise failed to produce any English language coverage.
BBC News continues to ignore the story of Hamas-ISIS Sinai relations
BBC News ignores a Hamas related story that contradicts previous reporting
Gaza explosion: BBC News silent, BBC Arabic promotes knee-jerk speculation
Earlier this month tensions between Hamas and Wilayat Sinai increased further.
“The Islamic State branch in the Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday called on its supporters to attack Hamas in a gruesome execution video as long-simmering tensions between the rival Islamic terror groups erupted into the open.
The 22-minute long video culminated with the execution of one of its members, shot in the…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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