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Posted on 04/14/2011 5:46:14 AM PDT by BCrago66
Tomorrow's release of the movie version of "Atlas Shrugged" is focusing attention on Ayn Rand's 1957 opus and the free-market ideas it espouses. Book sales for "Atlas" have always been brisk—and all the more so in the past few years, as actual events have mirrored Rand's nightmare vision of economic collapse amid massive government expansion. Conservatives are now hailing Rand as a tea party Nostradamus, hence the timing of the movie's premiere on tax day.
When Rand created the character of Wesley Mouch, it's as though she was anticipating Barney Frank (D., Mass). Mouch is the economic czar in "Atlas Shrugged" whose every move weakens the economy, which in turn gives him the excuse to demand broader powers. Mr. Frank steered Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to disaster with mandates for more lending to low-income borrowers. After Fannie and Freddie collapsed under the weight of their subprime mortgage books, Mr. Frank proclaimed last year: "The way to cure that is to give us more authority." Mouch couldn't have said it better himself.
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I have and that is a road I did not want to travel.
While her moral don't match your own simply calling her immoral is wrong. Calling enlightened self interest selfishness misses the entire point and demonstrates your overly simplistic understanding of Rand.
Calling anyone a "liberaltarian" is the same thing as calling tea party people "teabaggers". Apparently your morals don't require you treat anyone that disagrees with you any common decency or simple respect. Say what you want about Ayn Rand but she would have at least debated a point with you using reason and logic rather than name calling and attacks on your character.
Now, granted, I don't know much about their intra-community behaviour, but I didn't know that homosexuals engaged in a practice called "liberaltarianing"...
I've been there. Was glad to go home.
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I’m no fan.
She’s very masculine, imho.
I forget I can do that until after I ask! LOL!
I guess the standards were different back then.
So many people love to cast stones, as though their personal life is perfect. I have never met such a person as a perfect person. They think they have solid values but then they have all these “exceptions”.
It’s intended as a deragatory comment regardless of the inferred sexual component.
I’ve been to Nixa. I was glad to go home, too.
Oh c’mon now, you’re just being touchy.
Nope, not I, just pointing out a name calling screed rather than a principled and logical arguement.
It’s a nice place to live, but I wouldn’t want to visit there.
Remember that when you point one finger away from you, you have three pointing back at you.
If I posit an agument made up of ad hominem attacks and name calling feel free to point it out. I would appreciate it.
Relax Durus, I’m just pulling your chain!
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