Many Western nations are, in any objective sense, insolvent. (For example) the EU’s decision to toss a trillion dollars into the great sucking maw of Greece’s public-sector kleptocracy. It no longer matters whether you’re intellectually in favour of European-style social democracy: simply as a practical matter, it’s unaffordable.
I love lines like "great sucking maw of Greece's public-sector kleptocracy." Steyn gives another example:
In one-sixth of British households, not a single family member works. They are not so much without employment as without need of it.
Who needs to work when someone else will support you? He explains the mechanism documented by B. F. Skinner, among others:
It’s one of the basic rules of life: if you reward bad behaviour, you get more of it.
Go read the article, there is much more to enjoy.
