In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter? Mark Steyn More Quotes by Mark Steyn More Quotes From Mark Steyn The best reason to diminish social programs is not to put more money in people's pockets but to put more responsibility in people's pockets. Mark Steyn pockets responsibility people The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases. Mark Steyn detroit literacy west If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too. Mark Steyn hate cities america This is a perfect snapshot of the West at twilight. On the one hand, governments of developed nations microregulate every aspect of your life in the interests of 'keeping you safe.' ... On the other hand, when it comes to 'keeping you safe' from real threats, such as a millenarian theocracy that claims universal jurisdiction, America and its allies do nothing. ... It is now certain that Tehran will get its nukes, and very soon. This is the biggest abdication of responsibility by the Western powers since the 1930s. Mark Steyn real responsibility twilight Byrd, the former Klu [sic] Klux Klan Kleagle, is taking a stand over states' rights, or his rights over State, or some such. Whatever the reason, the sight of an old Klansman blocking a little colored girl from Birmingham from getting into her office contributed to the general retro vibe that hangs around the Democratic Party these days. Mark Steyn block party girl I don't think Donald Trump is a conservative. I think his line on China for example, that he's going to talk tough to China. China didn't create Social Security, Medicare. China isn't spending a fifth of a billion dollars every hour that it doesn't have. Mark Steyn dollars example thinking If you're 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you're graduating high school, there has been no global warming since you entered first grade. There has been no global warming this century. None Mark Steyn adults school firsts So-called "progressives" actively wage war on progress. . . . Ultimately, progressives are at war with mass prosperity. Mark Steyn prosperity progress war We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas. Mark Steyn mysterious source problem The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything. Mark Steyn too-much government doe Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture Mark Steyn maintenance african-american culture The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Mark Steyn minutes care government Jokes are one of the things that bind the culture. If you can't have jokes about everybody in society and if one group is hedged off and protected then that group can never truly be integrated. Mark Steyn integrated jokes culture Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing. Mark Steyn judgment citizens government In the Western world, countries that were once the crucible of freedom are slipping remorselessly into a thinly disguised serfdom in which an ever higher proportion of your assets are annexed by the state as superlandlord. Big government is where nations go to die - not in Keynes' 'long run,' but sooner than you think. Mark Steyn running country thinking Like most people, I have no wish to live in a community organized by community organizers. Mark Steyn community wish people Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness. Mark Steyn self europe culture To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate. Mark Steyn bystanders fate government Much of America is now in need of an equivalent of Mrs. Thatcher's privatization program in 1980s Britain, or post-Soviet Eastern Europe's economic liberalization in the early Nineties. It's hard to close down government bodies, but it should be possible to sell them off. And a side benefit to outsourcing the Bureau of Government Agencies and the Agency of Government Bureaus is that you'd also be privatizing public-sector unions, which are the biggest and most direct assault on freedom, civic integrity, and fiscal solvency. Mark Steyn agency government integrity Sadly, a U.S. invasion of Iraq 'would threaten the whole stability of the Middle East' - or so Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab League, told the BBC on Tuesday. Amr's talking points are so Sept. 10: It's supposed to destabilize the Middle East. The stability of the Middle East is unique in the non-democratic world and it's the lack of change in Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt that's turned them into a fetid swamp of terrorist bottom-feeders. Mark Steyn egypt iran unique
