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"...Having looked to government for bread on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them."
Edmund Burke (1792-97) Thoughts and Details on Scarcity
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
Recommended Links
- Adam Smith Institute
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- The shock index: is giving the finger still offensive? (SocietyGuardian - news, comment and analysis on the public and voluntary sectors | guardian.co.uk)
- Cameron's quips fail to lift the blues (SocietyGuardian - news, comment and analysis on the public and voluntary sectors | guardian.co.uk)
- My faith in humanity is back somewhere in the middle, although I do have my Kindle back (Samizdata.net)
- A belated review of The Iron Lady (Samizdata.net)
- How to Lose Friends and Alienate Politicians (Guy Fawkes' blog)
- Milburn Gives Up the Act (Guy Fawkes' blog)
- How Not to Make Public Policy: The Payroll Tax Cut (Daily Policy Digest)
- Competitive Bidding Can Help Solve Medicare's Fiscal Crisis (Daily Policy Digest)
- An OFFA top universities ought to refuse? (IEA.org.uk - Blog feed)
- We live in "sinful and tyrannical" times (Lindsay Mitchell)
- Tomorrow and Christchurch (Lindsay Mitchell)
- Self-Government and Judicial Imposition (Civitas)
- More competition is key to cutting excessive international mobile roaming charges, says OECD (OECD Home)
- State and Local Pension Plans: Funding Status, Asset Management, and a Look Ahead (Cato Headlines)
- Disability News Round Up By John Pring - Week Ending 17/02/2012 (Benefit Scrounging Scum)
- Obesity: Mardi Gras - how fat are people this Tuesday? (OECD Home)
- Radical new approach to defuse 'ticking time bomb' of NEETs (DfE: News and press notices)
- England and the Need for Nations by Roger Scruton now on Amazon Kindle (Civitas)
- From naivety to sophistry - Keynesian arguments on both sides of the Atlantic (IEA.org.uk - Blog feed)
- If The #NHS Won't Buy Kali A New Wheelchair...We Will! (Benefit Scrounging Scum)
- 15 February 2012 - Rise in employment and vacancies shows a stabilising labour market (DWP press releases)
- Mending the U.S.-China Relationship (Cato Headlines)
Videos
Britain's Trillion Pound Horror Story
broadcast on Channel 4, 2010
Does Welfare 'Ruin' Ambition?

