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May 1st, 2016 11:52 PM #11
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May 3rd, 2016 12:39 AM #13
^gasp! SHUN THE HERETIC!
hahaha. kidding aside, yes! you hit the nail, dude.
a lot of people have to "check their premise"
when your "solution" to a few people is granting few people in government more power
think again.
democracy ≠ liberty
only liberty = liberty
or you could go back to daily programming... 2 + 2 = 5Last edited by safeorigin; May 3rd, 2016 at 12:45 AM.
Damn, son! Where'd you find this?
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May 3rd, 2016 07:55 PM #15
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May 29th, 2016 11:42 AM #17
Ayn Rand Railed Against Government Benefits, But Grabbed Social Security and Medicare When She Needed Them - Alternet
Joshua Holland, Jan. 28, 2011
Ayn Rand was not only a schlock novelist, she was also the progenitor of a sweeping “moral philosophy” that justifies the privilege of the wealthy and demonizes not only the slothful, undeserving poor but the lackluster middle-classes as well.
Her books provided wide-ranging parables of "parasites," "looters" and "moochers" using the levers of government to steal the fruits of her heroes' labor. In the real world, however, Rand herself received Social Security payments and Medicare benefits under the name of Ann O'Connor (her husband was Frank O'Connor).
As Michael Ford of Xavier University's Center for the Study of the American Dream wrote, “In the end, Miss Rand was a hypocrite but she could never be faulted for failing to act in her own self-interest.”Evva Joan Pryor, who had been a social worker in New York in the 1970s, was interviewed in 1998 by Scott McConnell, who was then the director of communications for the Ayn Rand Institute. In his book, 100 Voices: An Oral History of Ayn Rand, McConnell basically portrays Rand as first standing on principle, but then being mugged by reality. Stephens points to this exchange between McConnell and Pryor.
“She was coming to a point in her life where she was going to receive the very thing she didn’t like, which was Medicare and Social Security,” Pryor told McConnell. “I remember telling her that this was going to be difficult. For me to do my job she had to recognize that there were exceptions to her theory. So that started our political discussions. From there on – with gusto – we argued all the time.
The initial argument was on greed,” Pryor continued. “She had to see that there was such a thing as greed in this world. Doctors could cost an awful lot more money than books earn, and she could be totally wiped out by medical bills if she didn’t watch it. Since she had worked her entire life, and had paid into Social Security, she had a right to it. She didn’t feel that an individual should take help.”
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July 6th, 2016 01:19 PM #19
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