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Ayn Rand doesn't need a bailout
Grand Junction [Col.] Free Press ^
| 11/10/2008
| Linn and Ari Armstrong
Posted on 11/10/2008 4:34:17 AM PST by NewJerseyJoe
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To: NewJerseyJoe
Government interference in the free interactions of people(the market) are always an attempt to cheat reality. Insane and childish. It’s a game of let’s pretend. Let’s pretend that everyone has earned and can afford a house. Let’s pretend that everyone is equally credit worhty. Let’s take money from some people and give it to others so we all can pretend that they are prosperous.
You can fool reality only for so long. Then it all comes crashing down. The bailout is one more attempt to pretend. CRASH!
To: NewJerseyJoe
To: samiam1972
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posted on
11/10/2008 4:48:27 AM PST
by
samiam1972
("It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."-Mother Teresa)
To: NewJerseyJoe
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posted on
11/10/2008 4:52:43 AM PST
by
since1868
(It is not Bush's fault.)
To: mrmargaritaville
What ever happened to the movie “Atlas Shrugged” ?
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posted on
11/10/2008 5:01:20 AM PST
by
mick
To: NewJerseyJoe
To: mick
What ever happened to the movie “Atlas Shrugged” ? Rumored to be coming out in '09 with Angelina Jolie as Dagney.
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posted on
11/10/2008 5:08:37 AM PST
by
cowboyway
("The beauty of the Second Amendment is you won't need it until they try to take it away"--Jefferson)
To: NewJerseyJoe
" America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance -- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way."
AYN RAND, Capitalism: The Unknown Deal
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posted on
11/10/2008 5:10:00 AM PST
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: cowboyway
thanks.....certainly timely
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posted on
11/10/2008 5:10:37 AM PST
by
mick
To: NewJerseyJoe
Ping!........................ANY BODY KNOW WHO HAS THE AYN RAND PING LIST?.............
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posted on
11/10/2008 5:11:49 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Hey! Look on the bright side! At least Joe Biden is out of the Senate!..........)
To: mick
I was thinking exactly in these terms this morning while driving to work. EVERYTHING that is in “Atlas Shrugged” is happening now, even as we read the daily news.....
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posted on
11/10/2008 5:13:11 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Hey! Look on the bright side! At least Joe Biden is out of the Senate!..........)
To: NewJerseyJoe
The more I see our government in action (as an adult), the more I think Ayn was a genius. What she recognized, and was able to so clearly articulate, it has taken the rest of us decades to see....and some not yet.
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posted on
11/10/2008 5:13:34 AM PST
by
softengine
(Hypocrisy plays on both sides of the fence.......but no one will admit it.)
To: mrmargaritaville
Yes. Let’s not the Elsworth Toohey’s of this world too. Look at them and know evil exists.
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posted on
11/10/2008 5:15:23 AM PST
by
softengine
(Hypocrisy plays on both sides of the fence.......but no one will admit it.)
To: NewJerseyJoe
Anyone reading Ayn Rand today would think the book was newly written.
It’s all there and we have followed every wrong step to get to our economic collapse.
Soon the takers will be wondering where all the producers went.
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posted on
11/10/2008 5:17:10 AM PST
by
Carley
(Vote McCain/Palin.....Change babies can live with.)
To: NewJerseyJoe
“Atlas Shrugged” is the blueprint for everything that is happening in America today. She saw it coming in the 1950s and tried to warn us and we didn’t take the hint.
Now, it’s here and the question become - “Where is Galt’s Gulch and how quickly can I get there”?
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posted on
11/10/2008 5:17:28 AM PST
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: cowboyway
Rumored to be coming out in '09 with Angelina Jolie as Dagney.As a Hollyweird product, I was already planning to avoid it. With Jolie in the lead, I will double my plan to avoid it!! Jolie lacks the political wisdom to begin to comprehend Dagney. UGH, what horrible casting!!!
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posted on
11/10/2008 5:19:58 AM PST
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: jellybean
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posted on
11/10/2008 5:24:29 AM PST
by
colorcountry
(To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: NewJerseyJoe
Writer doesn't know jack about what really happened.
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posted on
11/10/2008 5:25:21 AM PST
by
org.whodat
( "the Whipped Dog Party" , what was formally the republicans.)
To: DustyMoment
Agree - and you have to figure that the overall message will be watered down or nonexistent in the film version.
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posted on
11/10/2008 5:26:58 AM PST
by
day10
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