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"My father told me that welfare is probably the worst thing that ever...happened to black people. There was a time, after slavery, when a black man was as likely to have a child within the confines of marriage as was a white man. Look at the census data....What happened? We launched Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, essentially going door to door and encouraging people to get on welfare...Fast forward to the year 2000: nearly 70 per cent of today's black children are born out of wedlock."
Larry Elder, author of The Ten Things You Can't Say in America.
Review
"A splendid book. It's a devastating critique of the welfare state. A page-turner, yet also extensively sourced. Demonstrates how attempts to achieve good intentions have led to horrible results -- increasing crime and violence, worsened conditions of the very poor, an extraordinary deterioration in the quality and character of British life.
Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winner.
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Before the welfare state
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The Greycoat Hospital
The Greycoat Hospital was once a workhouse. It has since been a hospital and a school. It has a very long welfare history. It has now been taken over by the state.
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The Greycoat Hospital
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Education and State
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Licence
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The German employment miracle
Germany used to have worse unemployment than Britain. Now it has better. Youth unemployment has fallen to 8% – half the level it was in 2005. And this despite the Eurozone crisis. Something happened in Germany. What was it? Elizabeth … Continue reading
A better way to run a hospital?
A different way to manage a hospital. This is from the website of OLVG, a big hospital in Amsterdam. It sounds like a better system than total control from the centre. The organisation of the OLVG consists of business units … Continue reading
A double standard used when judging ‘market failure’
It is commonly suggested that government has to step in when there is ‘market failure’. But when government is incompetent, wasteful and causes damage to people’s lives, there is a not a corresponding assertion of ‘state failure’ that ought to … Continue reading
“Golden misses” – reasons why some women are not so keen on marriage
Why do people marry less? One reason, I have argued, is that for those who are poor enough to be influenced, the welfare state offers women who want children an alternative to a financially-supporting man. In Britain, at least, it … Continue reading
The Inbetweeners – a celebration of vulgarity and selfishness
I was persuaded to go to a new British film, The Inbetweeners last night. It was a kind of celebration of vulgarity and selfishness. Occasionally it was funny. But any kind act was rare and then taken advantage of to … Continue reading
Aspects of the riots and what needs to be done
Some articles in today’s Sunday Telegraph reflect different aspects of the riots and their aftermath: The interview with David Cameron. He is talking tough on crime now but he is the man who appointed Kenneth Clarke to be in charge … Continue reading
Poor care homes and private provision
The Financial Times today had a series of articles on standards in care homes for the elderly in Britain. The two most powerful things the articles sought to get across were that there were serious failings and that these were … Continue reading