Pampered Royalty Lives on the Dole While Arguing for Austerity: Participation Society is the New Way

[Ed Suspicious]

"Youngest monarch in Europe says people must take responsibility for their own future and create their own social and financial safety nets."

Austerity is all the rage, isn't it?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dutch-king-willem-alexander-declares-the-end-of-the-welfare-state-8822421.html

[smirkymonkey]

1. Why do I get the feeling that some major changes are going to

be happening in Europe over the next few years? It seems to me that the Europeans have had quite enough from their leaders.

[hifiguy]

2. Tumbrels can't be hard to put together,

nd there are "build your own guillotine" plans on the internet: http://www.wikihow.com/Build-a-Guillotine

[lumberjack_jeff]

3. Pity that Dutch shoes don't have bootstraps. n/t

[closeupready]

4. What is he, all of 30? Rich and privileged for every one of those 30,

what a really stupid thing to say in an address to his subjects in the Netherlands.

[malaise]

5. All those monarchs have to go

They are a major part of the problem

[tabasco]

9. The concept of royalty should be repellent

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to anyone who claims to love freedom.

[malaise]

11. It is to me

[louis-t]

6. Let..them..eat....

Hoo Boy.

[Ed Suspicious]

7. 1.1 million dollar salary and $100,000,000 per year in keeping up his public housing project.

Shoot. I meant 100,000,000 Euros.

[trueblue2007]

8. this "KING" will be gone soon. The people won't put up with his crap.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

10. You do know the prime minister wrote that speech?

"The shift to a 'participation society' is especially visible in social security and long-term care," the king said, reading out to lawmakers a speech written for him by Prime Minister Mark Rutte's government.



No fan of royalty, but he didn't write the speech. Queen Elizabeth delivers a similar speech for her government.

[Downwinder]

12. Beatrix is no longer necessary, does she

just euthanize?