A bitter young woman immigrated to the United States from Russia. She was born and raised in what should have been a middle class family. Her father was a pharmacist. He had started two businesses, both of which were doing well when the communist government essentially destroys them by confiscating his assets. He was a capitalist. They took everything he had to distribute to everyone else. The idea is "if you take from the rich and give it to the poor, the poor will be rich!" Everyone knows—intuitively—Russian communism would be a failed system long before it failed.
That hate filled young woman, after coming to the United States, developed a political philosophy. Like the communist philosophy, her ideas were so radical everyone knows—intuitively—they would result in failure. She believed in unfettered free market economy with the added twist, if you cannot compete, you do not deserve to survive, you simply do not matter. No more welfare for anyone, for any reason ever. Her philosophy was as bad as communism if not worse because of the pointed inhumanity. I am talking about Ayn Rand. Her followers, Allen Greenspan, Eric Cantor, Reince Priebus, Scott Walker, Jim DeMint, Charles and David Koch, and a terrifying number of others should know better. Some are driven by greed like the Koch brothers and the Walton family, but others are drive by her misguided philosophy.
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