Dutch King Willem-Alexander declares the end of the welfare state

Youngest monarch in Europe says people must take responsibility for their own future and create their own social and financial safety nets

Tuesday 17 September 2013

King Willem-Alexander delivered a message to the Dutch people from the government in a nationally televised address: the welfare state of the 20th century is gone.  In its place a "participation society" is emerging, in which people must take responsibility for their own future and create their own social and financial safety nets, with less help from the national government........"The classic welfare state of the second half of the 20th century in these areas in particular brought forth arrangements that are unsustainable in their current form."....To Read More.....

My Take – Here is what I hear the king saying:  "OOPS!...it appears all that lecturing us Europeans have been doing about evil American capitalism has been wrong....OOPS!”   As you read this article you find that "Geert Wilders, whose far right Freedom Party currently tops popularity polls, called Rutte's budget the equivalent of "kicking the country while it's down.'" Okay.....and his solution is what?  Borrow more money?

Let's get real here folks. There's no money. It's all borrowed and borrowing time is running out. The only way to fix it is to create more wealth and that means more capitalism, and truthfully....Europe is incapable of it .....at least right now.  It will be interesting to see what happens with the EU collapses and they return to their own currencies and eliminate all that bloated, unelected bureaucracy that is destroying Europe with its insane regulatory policies, including....actually especially....their policies on Global Warming, or Climate Change since it isn’t warming any longer, that will destroy any efforts at economic recovery!

This is a classic example of “The inevitability Factor:  When reality reaches its zenith!” 

How did this all come into being....and it certainly didn’t happen overnight.  Socialism - let’s call the welfare state what it really is, -is a central planning scam that creates a state run cradle to grave society that believes all this social spending is a right and will go on forever.

This largely European creation became entrenched in Europe in Germany by the efforts of Germany’s Iron Chancellor, Bismarck, in the middle to late 1800’s.  Germany was the world’s geographic center for socialism in 1870.  His goal was to bind the masses to the ruling class by creating all these social programs.  It never occurred to him that the ruling class wouldn’t be the nobility. 

The Great Depression and the aftermath of WWII made these policies the back bone of their economic thinking.  The problem with all of this has always been the same; eventually you run out of other people’s money.

But with the introduction of the Euro these governments now lost the ability to control their own monetary policy or control their own levels of competitiveness.  Either way; the European solution was to borrow more money! 

It gets worse.  The population of Europe is aging, they are having fewer children, their tax base is eroding, their competiveness on the world stage is flaccid and Europe is being taken over my Muslims who hate them and use their social programs extensively.  And now it would appear that the ‘leaders’ are unable to institute reforms, because once these social programs go into place it is impossible to get rid of them....at least until the money runs out. 

Social unrest is inevitable no matter what they do.  It will take time for needed economic reforms to start to kick in and now the “social contract” in Europe is not just at risk...it’s doomed.  An eventual doom that should have been obvious to the most casual observer, but when the masses “storm the gates of Rome and demand circuses and bread” it takes courage to say no.  Unless they can convince their populations that they're just going to have to bite the bullet and and accept the needed economic and social refroms the political and social structure of Europe is going to crash from its foundation up.   

So, would someone like to explain to me why we want to mimic their social programs with policies like Obamacare?  Would someone like to explain to me why the media, and those in leadership positions are so hot to commit national suicide?