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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 03:52 PM
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Lessons I learned from talking to an Ayn Randian
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Edited on Mon Jun-15-09 03:55 PM by Taverner
I had the privlige, nay OPPORTUNITY to talk with a real live Ayn Randian over coffee today.

Here's what I, the lowly government dependent (although I have a job, he does not) learned...

1 - The poor should pay more in taxes (if taxes are to be paid at all) because they use more services

2 - The poor should pay more for goods because they are responsible for their own poverty, and by being poor they hurt the rest of us

3 - The rich should get government handouts, if any handouts are to be given, because the rich are who built America, and who employ us and were the visionaries who came up with all the things we take for granted.

4 - If the poor starve or die it should be no concern of ours. They chose to be poor, and just suck off the public teat all day.

5 - We need to bring back mandatory sterilization and use it on the poor

6 - The rich need to be venerated as royalty because they are the brain of America. The poor need to be eliminated because they are a virus or cancer, on the body American

7 - Iraq is only bad because we were unsucessful in taking the land and oil from them. They aren't using their resources wisely, so we should kill them all and move alpha males and females onto the land instead.

8 - Israel should be supported because they bully Palestine. Bullies are the visionaries of America. We should only stop support if they show weakness.

9 - The US Anti-Bully campaign will destroy our youth. America needs bullies or everyone will think they can do whatever they want.

10 - That AYN RAND IS A FUCKING PSYCHOPATH!!!!!!
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