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Soulshiner wrote: She was a hypocrite that basically told people how they should live and then did the opposite. Funny how that seems to happen a lot with in a certain ideology...
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LadyJazzer wrote: So, since you have nothing but insults for the source, and the folks who point out the FACT that she took Social Security money, I take it you have nothing to prove that the facts aren't true?
Ayn Rand and the VIP-DIPers
A heavy smoker who refused to believe that smoking causes cancer brings to mind those today who are equally certain there is no such thing as global warming. Unfortunately, Miss Rand was a fatal victim of lung cancer.
However, it was revealed in the recent "Oral History of Ayn Rand" by Scott McConnell (founder of the media department at the Ayn Rand Institute) that in the end Ayn was a vip-dipper as well. An interview with Evva Pryror, a social worker and consultant to Miss Rand's law firm of Ernst, Cane, Gitlin and Winick verified that on Miss Rand's behalf she secured Rand's Social Security and Medicare payments which Ayn received under the name of Ann O'Connor (husband Frank O'Connor).
As Pryor said, "Doctors cost a lot more money than books earn and she could be totally wiped out" without the aid of these two government programs. Ayn took the bail out even though Ayn "despised government interference and felt that people should and could live independently... She didn't feel that an individual should take help."
But alas she did and said it was wrong for everyone else to do so. Apart from the strong implication that those who take the help are morally weak, it is also a philosophic point that such help dulls the will to work, to save and government assistance is said to dull the entrepreneurial spirit.
In the end, Miss Rand was a hypocrite but she could never be faulted for failing to act in her own self-interest.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-f ... 92184.html
So, when you can't refute the facts, attack the messenger...
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Soulshiner wrote: It's almost like I can hear the foaming at the mouth coming through the internet...
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Baileyboy wrote: And when you are a brain dead drone apologist quote other brain dead drone apologists.
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LadyJazzer wrote:
Baileyboy wrote: And when you are a brain dead drone apologist quote other brain dead drone apologists.
As usual, I don't think he knows what the word means:
a·pol·o·gist (-pl-jst)
n.
A person who argues in defense or justification of something, such as a doctrine, policy, or institution.
See, I'm NOT arguing in defense of the hypocrite...In fact, quite the opposite. "Apologist" would be YOU...
You should keep a dictionary nearby, since you obviously don't understand what you are saying... I realize it's "elitist" of me to point that out---but I just couldn't help myself.... rofllol
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"Contributions" are in the eye of the beholder, are they not?
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