Dutch King Willem-Alexander captured headlines last week when he
announced an end to his nation’s welfare state. In a solid blow to the
leftist gut, the king declared
that the “classic welfare state of the second half of the 20th century”
was “unsustainable in its current form.” It would be replaced, he
continued, by a “participation society,” in which people are expected
“to make their own choices, to arrange their own lives, and take care of
each other.”
It’s like a fairy tale written by Ayn Rand: the handsome prince slays
the welfare state, and they all live happily ever after. A hereditary
monarch who proves he has a firmer grasp on liberty than 90 percent of
the elected leaders of the modern West is enough to make many of us
shout, “Long live the king!”
http://thefederalist.com/2013/09/24/hail-to-the-king/
http://thefederalist.com/2013/09/24/hail-to-the-king/
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