No Kids or Grandkids to Stick it To

Mark Steyn lays it out in stark terms:

What’s happening in the developed world today isn’t so very hard to understand: The 20th-century Bismarckian welfare state has run out of people to stick it to. In America, the feckless, insatiable boobs in Washington, Sacramento, Albany, and elsewhere are screwing over our kids and grandkids. In Europe, they’ve reached the next stage in social-democratic evolution: There are no kids or grandkids to screw over.

Add to that Springfield, Illinois.

It's no wonder the Sun Times had a front page image of Lincoln crying this week. It's no wonder Barack Obama is clueless, he springs from this dysfunctional state. He's lived in liberal lalaland all his life.

...A society too selfish or hopeless to have kids is a dead society. And then there's the other authoritarian nightmare. Life is cheap. Throw it in a stream.

...Maybe that's what they'll do to the old ones in Europe. Oh wait...