Exactly

It's a curious inversion of priorities to demand "control" over peripheral leisure activities but to contract out the big life-changing stuff to the government. Free citizens of advanced western democracies are increasingly the world's wrinkliest teenagers: the state makes the grown-up decisions and we spend our pocket money on our record collection. Hillaire Belloc, incidentally, foresaw this very clearly in his book The Servile State in 1912 - before teenagers or record collections had been invented.

-- Mark Steyn