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CNBC: Does The Country Need A Dose Of Ayn Rand Now?

Posted by khalling 9 years, 1 month ago to Business
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this is an article. about midway down there is an informal poll. pretty surprising for CNBC to post this. anyway, check out the results!
SOURCE URL: http://www.cnbc.com/id/102402020#.


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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 1 month ago
    As long as the res ficta of a two party system of a republic is kept alive in the face of res facta and as long as a sufficient number can put gas in the pickup and attend the tailgate parties at the stadia the couch potato mentality will continue to drive the country out of existence. Recall in the book the state of things required for the Galtist counter revolution to work., Even now when it's not a don't worry about it that's five generations from now attitude but in your face retirees and those facing retirement with devalued retirement dollars one has a better chance of counting on a job at WalMart.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 1 month ago
    Maybe US citizens arent as ignorant as one might have believed after the election of Obama. Maybe Obama and his lies and hidden socialist agenda is turning people away from socialism after all. One has to look only to Venezuela to see where it leads- yet the people in Venezuela appear to be so ignorant that they cant even see it when it gets that bad.
    I think that young people are rebelling against the crony capitalist bent of the politicians and are really looking for a change from that. Regular people dont have a chance when lobbyists and politicians can favor their friends using government power.
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  • Posted by gwynmarilyn 9 years, 1 month ago
    Sorry, I don't think they want to hear what she said. To many our looters who are in power and what some thing to claim is on their side. Clearly they want words to twisted to fit their believes.
    Not what she said.
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  • Posted by Temlakos 9 years, 1 month ago
    It's up to seventy-four percent now. But some people here raise an interesting point. People are less willing than they once were, to peruse articles with content with which they disagree.
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  • Posted by $ winterwind 9 years, 1 month ago
    I didn't see the poll - maybe too late in the day, but I did get to an even smarmier article from, of course, The Wire.
    I knew, when I [voluntarily] signed the pledge against the initiation of violence, that there would be these times, when I just wanted to walk up to someone and slap him. just once, I promise? OK, you're right. a pledge made and then abandoned when it's hard to keep is no pledge. But still.........
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  • Posted by $ winterwind 9 years, 1 month ago
    This article reads like an assignment the author didn't want to write, on a person he knew nothing about but didn't like anyway. He points out that neither "progressive economist" Paul Krugman nor Peter Wehner, an aide to Reagan and Bush the Elder, were thrilled by her. That and a page of the Congressional Record, and you can go to the bathroom and emerge squeaky clean!
    Yes, I like to see Rand's name in print, even that of her detractors. his one reads just so.....icky.
    and yet he is, I supposed, a "respected" columnist. You notice no mention of any movies, of course. He wants you to think the only way you can learn what she said is to read Atlas, whose sales stats he also maligned.
    oh, grrrrr.
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