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This appears to be a very rare, well conceived article assessing the elitist dogma about Rand as compared with the reality of her brilliant insightful and incredibly timely works, in light of the issues facing America today.

We came to the present corrupt and delusional idiocy precisely and expressly under the banner of government coerced altruism. $16 Trillion in on the books debt; new debt as far as the eye can see at over $1Trillion per year; and unfunded liabilities in excess of 100 Trillion; GDP diving southward; and employment stalled, but the dollar plummeting. American power compromised by budget cuts and whats left squandered in hopeless tactics that omit consideration of victory.

We have second rate leaders with third rate minds, devoted to either corruption or psychic payoffs associated with raw power. One senator is famous for wearing tennis shoes, another for being homosexual, one former senator also a former governor most certainly should be in jail for his massive fraud and breach of fiduciary duty, though political connections keep him in freedom months after the cookies were found missing. Harry Reid is a corrupt Las Vegas licensing board hack who played footsie with mobsters, yet some people declare Rand’s characters to be unrealistically drafted, too ‘one dimensional’. The solution to every problem is more collectivism with threat of government force behind it according to our leaders.

Even Mr. Romney, clearly more qualified to hold office than Obama, is mealy mouthed and talks about “reforming” Obamacare...as if Hell might be improved by new street lights and some air conditioning.

Rand has a great deal to teach the world, but many spend tireless hours trying to smear and mischaracterize her work, and to discourage the curious from considering her ideas.

Jeffrey Sachs is a moron with a Doctorate. A closet communist. and a big time government interventionist apologist. An intellectual descendant of Marx and Keynes “magic money” and social reform ideologies. The kind that kill people in bulk. Listen to him when disaster strikes and you will be in the vangard of those crushed burned shot or starved before the end of the first reel.

What Rand teaches among other things is the moral meaning of the marketplace. You can ignore her works, but the moral judgment of the market place will catch up with you inevitably. When it does the spokesmen for the moochers will again in chorus claim it was because you would not agree to tax the rich enough. Ignoring as always that raising tax rates does not increase tax revenues per se and that a government that occupies 25 to 40% or more of the economy is crowding out the ability to produce wealth and pissing away what wealth remains at appalling rates through political payoffs and crony corruption.

This nation and our civilisation are rapidly falling away. If you want to know the cause start reading or re - read Ayn Rand. Short term financial gimmicks might stave off flagrant catastrophe for a bit. The parasites are consuming the host and the scavangers are already feeding on Europe, and little is left in the world that looks like enduring civilisation. We are Rome before the vandals. It is night in America and the hyenas are in charge. Be smug as long as you can, eletists, enjoy your privileges and speak dismissively of a genius who called you what you really are. Scoff at her personal failings in order to distract from her ideas, of free men, of a free society, of the nature of value of human acheivement. Raise your flags and make great speeches in honor of everything pointless and continue your headlong rush toward the politically correct society where sodomites, union thugs and the John Edwards of the world are just as or more important than Ford Carnegie and Edison, more important because Jersey Shore and Oprah have become the heart of America’s culture and Jeffrey Sachs an economic guiding light to those in power.