YOU PAY FOR THEIR ENTITLEMENTS

Duality enters conservative thinking when dealing with entitlements: they complain about paying for “entitlements”. Medicare, health care in the form of the Affordable Care Act, and Social Security are not entitlements; we pay for them but Romney/Ryan claims they are entitlements. Even with those excluded, there are many other forms of entitlements; environmental protections, highway systems, mail delivery, military protection, collection of taxes, and so many other government services it would be hard to name them all. Guaranteed student loans and housing loans are treated as entitlement. Subsidies to big farms and oil companies are entitlements.  

As citizen of a rich country, and just like five sons of a rich family, we are entitled to these things through use of government scholarships and student guaranteed loans. Do you think Romney’s sons used government guaranteed loans to pay for tuition? Tuition for the kinds of schools these guys attend cost $50,000 a year. They go to school for five years and there are five sons; that is $1,250,000 dollars. Consider in the same way health care costs, pension savings, home mortgages; you do not deserve any of these things unless you can pay for them; to them that is fair because it is “equal treatment under the law” and they tell us we should look at it in the same way.

Go through the list and decide which entitlement an Ayn Rand conservative wants to pay for or does not want to pay for, that is where the duality enters the picture; they want the freedom, American Freedom Watch, to decide what they want verses what they do not want. To the politically naive, the result should be startling. They do not want to pay for any of them because they are the elite; they deserve them but want us to pay for them. That was Ayn Rand’s message; there are those that count and those who do not.