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Alfred E. Smith (1873-1944), US politician about attacking Government benefit programmes
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"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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Incapacity benefit existed in ancient Greece
This is from Aristotle on the Athenian constitution. The Council also inspects the Incapables; for there is a law enacting that persons possessing less than 3 minae1 and incapacitated by bodily infirmity from doing any work are to be inspected by … Continue reading

