WALL STREET JOURNAL

Letter to the Editor

16 Aug. 2011

This was not a protest against the government in any meaningful sense.   From my experience of living in Britain for 20 years, this was just the kind of violent criminality that is a regular feature of life there magnified on a grand scale.   No one in the U.K.’s government will have the political nerve to fix the problem. Government created the problem through the growth of an ever more generous welfare state. Leftist do-gooders have made it possible for teenagers to drop out of school and begin having children, for whom the state provides everything—housing, food and regular income—making the father or even the extended family obsolete. This has led to the destruction of the social fabric and to generations of fatherless feral youths without skills or ambition. Unless Britain addresses the welfare state’s role in this mayhem, the underclass will continue to grow and the rest of the population will suffer the consequences.

Lisa Aitken

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Filed under: Featured, Inside The KC, Politics by Sonja Eddings Brown, Aug 16, 2011