Why are some people sucessful and some people losers, to return to a recent theme?Today there is a story in the Daily Mail about a man who married a woman with two children and had five of his own,lives in a council house and gets £24k a year benefits.He is going to get a divorce because they need a bigger house and that way he and his ex will both be provided for.
It is quite clear that if you incentivise this sort of thing you will encourage it.Why does the taxpayer tolerate this obvious fraud and injustice? Another story this week -same source about a boy who has sired five children with different females and a sixth is on the way. Again incentivised behaviour producing the inevitable result.One would like to think that the authors of the Welfare State would be spinning in their graves if they could witness this.Or did they know exactly what they were doing?
I am sure they did not think for one minute that the Welfare State would end up as an international outreach scheme for all the waifs and strays from the four corners of the world.Or did they?
A culture of incentivized sloth and parasitism is hardly going to be dynamic and I think it is true to say such behaviour would not be possible in the US where a major crackdown and purge of such anti social behaviour a decade or so ago has seen a dramatic decrease in welfare dependency.
No one hold their breath for any such radical steps from Mr Cameron who right now is busy conducting a love- in with the hooded products of our sick welfare dependency culture.
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I'm going on about the Police(narf)in a similar vein, though much less measured.
I've never been called measured before!
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