5 Feet of Fury

Mark Steyn: America Takes Early Retirement

Mark Steyn writes:

The basic problem with the western world today is that not enough people do not enough work for not enough of their lives – and yet still expect to lead a First World lifestyle. One more quote from my sadly prescient After America: As Bernard Shaw asked in Heartbreak House, “Do you think the laws of God will be suspended in favor of England because you were born in it?”

“Of course!” say Obama and Pelosi and The New York Times and the Professor of Leisure Studies at the University of Iowa. I think not.