South Africa Reaches the Tipping Point: More on Welfare Than Working

Progressivism progresses toward a tipping point. This point has been achieved in South Africa, according to the Institute of Race Relations:

The IRR survey showed that in 2001 there were 12 494 000 people in employment and 3 993 133 people receiving social grants.

Fifteen years later‚ there were more people receiving social grants in South Africa than there were people with jobs.

According to IRR analyst Gerbrandt van Heerden: “In 2016‚ there were 15 545 000 people with jobs in South Africa while 17 094 331 people were receiving social grants.”

When a minority is forced to carry the majority on its back, the welfare state has become a slave state.

From here the vicious cycle inherent in welfare leads straight down the pipes. As van Heerden observes,

“The numbers are a recipe for social and political chaos. With South Africa formally in recession‚ the government will find it difficult to afford the cost of its social grants programme. As the economy stagnates‚ and tax revenue slows‚ demand for more grants will increase. The government will then have to cut other areas of expenditure in order to meet popular demands for more and higher grants. We predict that this will lead to much higher levels of violent protest action.”

Meanwhile, Julius Malema of the Economic Freedom Fighters, whose platform essentially consists of looting whites and driving them out of the country, barks that “When the EFF take over, we will ensure the state owns all the land.” That is, they will impose communism. Who will vote against them, when the majority is living off other people’s wealth, expropriated and redistributed by the government?

I hope liberals around the world enjoyed the warm glow of self-righteousness after bullying South Africa into committing suicide. It would be a shame to think that a Western nation will be erased and replaced with another Zimbabwe for no reason at all.

On tips from ABC of the ANC.