The Survival of the Neediest: How Big Government and the Nanny State are Failing the Strong and the Weak

On both sides of the Atlantic, national governments have got themselves into deep financial trouble. This has raised some awareness that big government is a bankrupt model and the nanny state is unsustainable. Even more important than such practical, fiscal challenges is the more fundamental question of what gives the government the right to interfere in our lives in the first place, and to what extent it can be held accountable for the lives and happiness of people. This begs a question that we have forgotten to answer what exactly is the role of the government? In this new book, Joe Green argues that it’s time to start caring about big government, the nanny state, political correctness, and other such ‘signs of our times’. He goes beyond ridiculing symptoms and explores where these signs of our times come from, what propels them forward, how they erode our freedom, and how to stop the trend. Read in this There are reasons we do all these things. The answer lies in our history....