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Title: Rand On the Dole
Source: Reason
URL Source: http://reason.com/blog/2011/01/30/rand-on-the-dole
Published: Jan 30, 2011
Author: Tim Cavanaugh
Post Date: 2011-04-17 10:53:59 by lucysmom
Keywords: Big government supports Ayn Ra, Life mugs Libertarian, Hypocrite, an easy label
Views: 31254
Comments: 82

Scott McConnell's Oral History of Ayn Rand includes an interview with a consultant of the Atlas Shrugged author and founder of the Objectivism cult, who details how she helped the artist formerly known as Alisa Zinovievna Rosenbaum get on the public tit. From Mark Frauenfelder at BoingBoing:

Noted speed freak, serial-killer fangirl, and Tea Party hero Ayn Rand was also a kleptoparasite, sneakily gobbling up taxpayer funds under an assumed name to pay for her medical treatments after she got lung cancer.

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."

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#1. To: Fred Mertz, A K A Stone, hondo68, Fred Mertz, Godwinson, go65, war, no gnu taxes, Skip Intro, ferret mike, jwpegler, brian s, mcgowanjm, The Blue Cat (#0)

"Doctors cost a lot more money than books earn and she could be totally wiped out without the aid of these two government programs."

Yep. That's why those programs were created.

lucysmom  posted on  2011-04-17   10:59:08 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: lucysmom (#1)

The programs were created because of Rand?

Your tagline is silly considering how much blood the democrats have on their hands murdering little pretty innocent babies.

A K A Stone  posted on  2011-04-17   11:03:13 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: A K A Stone (#2)

Your tagline is silly considering how much blood the democrats have on their hands murdering little pretty innocent babies.

Of course there are Democrats that don't support the right to choose and Republicans who do - but that messes up the whole black and white approach to politics.

Too bad life isn't that simple.

lucysmom  posted on  2011-04-17   11:12:30 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: lucysmom, A K A Stone (#5)

Of course there are Democrats that don't support the right to choose and Republicans who do - but that messes up the whole black and white approach to politics.

I'm interested in your gray approach especially in regard to 'choice' since that issue caused my permanent expulsion from FR's taliban cult.

harrowup  posted on  2011-04-17   11:25:23 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: harrowup (#7)

I'm interested in your gray approach especially in regard to 'choice' since that issue caused my permanent expulsion from FR's taliban cult.

I don't think I can help you understand why you were expelled from FR.

lucysmom  posted on  2011-04-17   11:48:47 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: lucysmomk, A K A Stone (#10)

I don't think I can help you understand why you were expelled from FR.

Don't be a smartass, Ma; I asked you what your gray approach to politics is as opposed to that which you criticized, black & white.

You either have an answer or you're just blowing smoke.

Stone? Your view is certainly extreme and of course neither reasonable nor probable.

Some times pregnancy is truly a mistake.

My own idea on abortion is that the first one is free unless the father is known and he pays) and without condemnation.

A second abortion is costly and results in automatic sterilization of the mother.

The father in the second abortion is required to pay.

Anyone fined for an abortion as the father would be above who reoffends is castrated.

Anyone executing an abortion provider must adopt all future children born who would have been serviced by said abortion provider.

Until the RC Church permits birth control we're stuck.

Until the government stops paying for abortions we're stuck.

Just my opinion.

harrowup  posted on  2011-04-17   14:09:46 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: harrowup (#17)

Stone? Your view is certainly extreme and of course neither reasonable nor probable.

My view is reasonable and consistent with what we do with murderers and their accomplices in this and every nation on earth.

It is extreme to allow the annihilation if millions of little pretty babies.

A K A Stone  posted on  2011-04-18   15:29:15 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: A K A Stone (#18)

It is extreme to allow the annihilation if millions of little pretty babies.

No question about it. How many 'pretty little babies' born to parents ill- equipped to raise them have you and your associates adopted to give them a life without pain and abuse?

harrowup  posted on  2011-04-18   20:27:20 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: harrowup (#20)

Oh that is perfect logic.

Getting pulled apart- limb, by limb- to a slow suffocating death- is not abusive or painful.

diva betsy ross  posted on  2011-04-18   20:40:01 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: diva betsy ross, harrowup (#25)

Oh that is perfect logic.

Getting pulled apart- limb, by limb- to a slow suffocating death- is not abusive or painful.

Harrowup gives a dismemberment mulligan for the first almost-birth; The second time a dismemberment/abortion happens he really gets p*ssed off.

Liberator  posted on  2011-04-18   20:56:21 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#35. To: Liberator (#32)

Liberalism is a mental disorder. It is true.

diva betsy ross  posted on  2011-04-18   21:06:19 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#44. To: diva betsy ross (#35)

Liberalism is a mental disorder. It is true.

Now where have I heard that before?????

Psychiatrist Confirms: Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder

February 17, 2008

Psychiatrist Confirms: Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder As a clinical and forensic psychiatrist, Lyle Rossiter has treated over 1,500 patients and examined over 2,700 civil and criminal cases. Turning his hand to political psychopathology, the author of The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness, has diagnosed an alarming percentage of the population as suffering from the grotesque form of mental derangement known by some as moonbattery.

Among Rossiter's observations:

Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded. Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave.

A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity — as liberals do. A political leader who understands human nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social equality on the population — as liberals do. And a legislator who understands human nature will not create an environment of rules which over-regulates and over-taxes the nation's citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state — as liberals do.

The roots of liberalism — and its associated madness — can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind. When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious.

Basically liberalism is a willful failure to mature beyond adolescence that can have catastrophic consequences for society. With luck, the official diagnosis of this disease by a mental health professional will facilitate the search for a cure.

CZ82  posted on  2011-04-18   21:29:16 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#46. To: CZ82 (#44)

Me thinks the psychiatrist doth project...

lucysmom  posted on  2011-04-18   21:51:03 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#50. To: lucysmom (#46)

Me thinks the psychiatrist doth project...

Maybe....

CZ82  posted on  2011-04-18   22:00:16 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#51. To: CZ82, lucysmom (#50)

"Me thinks the psychiatrist doth project..."

Maybe....

There is no reasoning with absolutists whether pro or con.

harrowup  posted on  2011-04-18 22:15:11 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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