Thursday, October 21, 2010

Protests in the UK, riots in France

I guess the welfare state really does foster a sense of community and brings people together:





Looking at the pictures, and the cries of anguish over being forced to work until 62 or having welfare benefits cut, I am reminded of Bastiat's quote that "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."

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