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  • Sacrificing for Your Fellow Man is Not Noble-Don Watkins--10.May.2012

    05/10/2012 1:14:07 PM PDT · by appeal2 · 5 replies
    The Financial Survival Network ^ | 05/10/2012 | Kerry Lutz
    www.FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com presents: Don Watkins, of the Ayn Rand Institute for Individual Rights, was appalled by a recent commencement address by Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, who urged graduates to devote their work and lives to serving their fellow and less fortunate beings. Don argues, as do I, your highest purpose is in best serving your own needs and desires. By doing so, you automatically enable many others to realize their potential, and you take the burden off society and help place it where it truly belongs, on the individuals shoulders. This concept was what once helped make America great; this individualistic...
  • Ayn Rand's Don Watkins on Finding a Way Out of the Entitlement Tarpit--03-15-2015

    03/15/2012 10:43:06 AM PDT · by appeal2 · 2 replies
    The Financial Survival Network ^ | 03/15/2012 | Kerry Lutz
    Don Watkins and I discuss the unsustainable state of America's Entitlement Society. It is clear that the system is going to collapse; we are certainly at the height of corruption when half the population is allowed to live at the expense of the other half. The geometric growth in entitlement programs and expenditures is also mathematically unsustainable. Therefore, people need to be educated about entitlements, which actually make society more poor and ensure a lower standard of living for everyone. The alternative to enlightening and raising the population's consciousness will be far worse than ending entitlements programs. While there is...