England Riots 2011 - The Welfare State

There is going to be a lot of analysis and finger pointing following the riots in England. The media will try to psychoanalyse the mindset of the rioters and be asking what motivated the violence and theft. There will be much talk about the underprivileged youth and sense of hopelessness in these poor areas. Politicians will try to take advantage of the events, blaming the other parties’ policies as the cause.

What will be overlooked is the main reason why the riots took place and what motivated the mob mentality. These rioters are the children of the state. Raised by parents on welfare, housed by councils, schooled by government run schools, healed by socialised healthcare and completing the cycle by graduating to the dole queues. The welfare is funded by the very people that these rioters attacked; the hard working taxpayers in this country.

You may ask yourselves: Why they would bite the hand that feeds? I suggest you take a look at the "George ought to help" video (in the previous post) on how taxation is collected. Taxation is collected by government by force and redistributed. It was only a matter of time for these rioters to decide to remove the middleman and just take what they want directly from the worker. The mob doesn’t want to live without its Sony playstations or flat screen TV's; if other people have them, then they should have them too.

The police are no obstacle either. The mob has nothing to loose.

Since the fruits of peoples labour can be taken away by government and shared out, property rights are diminished. No one can really own anything since the government always has its sights on a portion of what you own.

The mob has taken advantage of this.

It is the welfare state, the free money that is the cause of the mob riots. Of course the media will simply dance around this.