A Mark Steyn heads up

Just to let you know that Mark Steyn has another column available on line, this one about the events in France. How can you not love a writer to reduces to one sentence the idiocy behind the current French plan to increase the social welfare system as a way to placate the rioters:

When you’ve got estranged demographic groups with 50–60 per cent unemployment and an over-regulated economy that restricts social mobility, lavish welfare is nothing more than government-subsidised festering.