The best five minutes ever in the current political campaign
came about this morning (Sunday, Aug, 18) on Chris Hayes’s program UP. It was
an introductory monologue. Among other things, many other things, I now
understand something that had bothered me for a long time. I did not understand
how an Ayn Rand follower, like Paul Ryan, could in good conscience use
fire and police protection, drive on our highways, accept government scholarships
or Obama stimulus money, or anything
else the government does for them and then complain about how bad the
government is. How can they take full advantage of all
of theses thing they complain about and still not want to pay taxes. Like most thing that confuse me, the answer
is simple. They feel that what ever they cannot afford they deserve from a
society that should be grateful to them because without them there would be no
society. In other words, these things are entitlements for them not us. They are willing to cut or otherwise destroy our entitlements to get theirs. We, the man on the street as long as it is not Wall Street, should be
happy to pay for all of these things for them—not for our benefit but for theirs. That was
Ayn Rand’s message; there are people who count and deserve everything and
those who do not count and deserve nothing.
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