[Publius]

Rearden took out a ten dollar bill and extended it to him, asking, "Would you please tell us the way to the factory?"

The man stared at the money with sullen indifference, not moving, not lifting a hand for it, still clutching the two buckets. If one were ever to see a man devoid of greed, thought Dagny, there he was.

"We don't need no money around here," he said.

"Don't you work for a living?"

"Yeah."

"Well, what do you use for money/"

The man put the buckets down, as if it had just occurred to him that he did not have to stand straining under their weight. "We don't use no money," he said. "We just trade things amongst us."

"How do you trade with people from other towns?"

"We don't go to no other towns."

-- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Part I ("Non-Contradiction"), Chapter IX (The Sacred and the Profane), page 285

[blam]

"Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged"

Read that book in 1965....it influenced my whole lie and still does.

[rlmorel]

Bill Whittle: Socialism is For Suckers-Venezeula

An excellent description of the qualities of socialism...