Welfare state led to the riots in England?

Posted by spottiness on Monday August 15, 2011 @05:10PM
from the blogs.law.harvard.edu dept.

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2011/08/14/welfare-state-led-to-the-riots-in-england/

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Re:Welfare state led to the riots in England? by zeemonkee on Monday August 15, 2011 @05:33PM (#2888814)

Why does anyone bother listening to this pontificating, clueless idiot any more ? Because he helped crash a crappy hilariously-named CMS product into the ground over a decade ago ?

I mean, I wouldn't write a blog post about the American Tea Party, for example, because I know too little of the forces of modern US politics, culture and economics giving rise to the phenomenon and would come off as a clueless idiot if I tried to do so. What makes Greenspun such an expert on the UK ?

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Re:Welfare state led to the riots in England? by arkitaip on Monday August 15, 2011 @05:12PM (#2888733)

This is a pretty awful, short article with idle speculation. Why are you posting this on HN?

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Re:Welfare state led to the riots in England? by spottiness on Monday August 15, 2011 @11:34PM (#2889740)

The debate below the article is very interesting.

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