Quote of the Day: Mark Steyn on “Social Democracy” and “Selfishness”
From Steyn’s September 20 column in The London Telegraph, commenting on Germany’s problems, with applicability everywhere:
The argument they (”social democrats”) make is usually a moral one - that there’s something better and more compassionate about us all sharing the burden as a community. But the election results in Germany and elsewhere suggest that, in fact, nothing makes a citizen more selfish than lavish welfare and that once he’s enjoying the fruits thereof he couldn’t give a hoot about the broader societal interest. “Social democracy” turns out to be explicitly anti-social.
