The right-wing thinktank Civitas has cricized the Government's policy of increased state handouts and promotion of a state of dependency. The group has attacked Labour for discouraging a population of 'free thinking citizens' and the Tories for 'chickening out' of opposition.
I often wonder how long governments can go bailing out its citizens. Either the system will collapse (either freeing people or leading to a period of chaos and crime) or continue just enough to eventually create a generally poor, dependent single mass of people with no ambition or independent thought. Once this is achieved a government will be in total and endless power through welfare blackmail, while a freedom giving, libertarian party will be shunned and criticised because they threaten the people's 'security'.
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More homes 'relying on benefits'
One in three households across Britain depends on state benefits for at least half its income, according to a report.
The right-of-centre think-tank Civitas says that the figure is far higher for single-parent homes, with 61% relying on state support compared with 9% of two-parent households.
The report, in the current issue of Civitas Review, states that the level of households dependent on benefits was as low as 5% in the 1960s but rose during the 1970s and 1980s, particularly because of the mass unemployment of the Thatcher era.
But it claims that the level of welfare dependency has not been brought back down in the current era of higher employment under Tony Blair's administration.
Basing its analysis on figures obtained from the Department for Work and Pensions, the report claims that Labour's tax credit scheme has been "only the most prominent example of welfare policies intended to create a grateful electorate rather than free-thinking citizens".
And Civitas director David Green, the author of the report, accused Conservative leader David Cameron of "chickening out" of reversing the trend of welfare dependency for fear of being branded uncaring.
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12-02-2007, 06:40 PM
Civitas Slams State Dependency
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