It Must Be That Awful, Unjust World Again.

Despite the best effort at creatively instituting an all-encompassing nanny-state in cryptic form, the number of “vulnerables” has doubled in 30 years. To the helpless, this means having one desperate last resort after another, anything but a judgement about the nature of people: a misplaced faith in government.

Jeez – lefties just don’t get it. Like their fellow zombies ant the New York Times who are shocked that the number of prisoners goes up even as crime drops, they don’t seem to get that the more generous and all-encompassing the nanny-state gets, the more likely it is to attract parasites.

To try to set the system to work, Minister of Justice Pascal Clement, and the minister whose portfolios include welfare, senior citizens, the handicapped, and families, Philippe Low presented a reform proposal on Tuesday November 28, to the Council of Ministers. “The current law do not make it possible any longer to protect our most fragile fellow-citizens well. The inflation in the number of cases makes it impossible for the law to a provide quality and effective execution of legal measures.”

Like the degradation of Health Services when the government must ration it (because it runs it), this is no different: the excessive involvement of any government in the provision of services which can otherwise be managed outside of the state eventually becomes incapable of providing as intended.

Then again there’s Serguei’s drawing displaying the expectations of the generous lawgivers – frankly more than one can ever expect. Commissioned for an article bleating about the quality of justice which in this case are nearly justified in it’s bleat: 700 000 people under judicial protection in some way or another, and not on a temporary basis, mind you, but wards of an institution not built for the permanent trusteeship of people in need. The sort of “justice” people who love the phrase “social justice” are looking for has little to do with Justice at all, but with the use of legal measures as a tool and a bludgeon.

The irony is that they aren’t compelling courts to decide impartially over the guilt an innocence of people, or finding on matters of dispute between people, they are being directed to oversee social problems. This used to be a act of last resort in society, and perhaps the numbers show what state of decay (or perhaps just emotionally desperate) modern, self-conscious, “social-democratic” society has allowed itself to fall into.