Instapundit » Blog Archive » MARK STEYN: Lessons For Us From London In Flames. “Big Government debauches not only a nation’s fi…: "MARK STEYN: Lessons For Us From London In Flames. “Big Government debauches not only a nation’s finances but its human capital, too. . . . While the British Treasury is busy writing checks to Amsterdam prostitutes, 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.”
Plus this: “In Britain, everything is policed except crime.”
Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 6:11 pm"
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