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  • Posted by Flootus5 8 years, 10 months ago
    It has always been held that Ayn Rand had the formative experiences of living through the Bolshevik revolution and living under the Soviet State that influenced her insight and perspective.

    But, I find it truly genius that she could have so well characterized how this creeping malaise of collectivism would, in particular, infect and bring down the United States.

    Atlas Shrugged - now non-fiction indeed.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 8 years, 10 months ago
    Good. Hope her message gets out early so it can be communicated for what it is.

    Also hope the R's get a candidate that is something more than a defense moocher and social freedom stomper.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 years, 10 months ago
    I am tired of being FORCED to take care of everyone else while I can not properly take care of myself, never mind create values yet to be created. I'd much rather have that 'Choice' and if allowed that choice, I would help those closet to me, my family, neighbors and community first....just the way, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, the Anglo Saxons and our forefathers of America intended.
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  • Posted by ChuckyBob 8 years, 10 months ago
    Let's look at the fine print to see how she is exempting herself from the increased taxes. Because as we all know, the motto is "Don't tax me, don't tax thee, tax that person behind the tree."
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    • Posted by $ 8 years, 10 months ago
      That is what someone who is (got half the following description from Animal Farm) a more than equal elite better will do.
      Just the fact that she and Bill are not at least standing trial by now speaks volumes about a new Progressive elite aristocracy all above the law used to keep commoners in line.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 10 months ago
    Revenue enhancements? An excellent example of doublespeak. It is a tribute to the strength of the USA that it took until 2015 and not 1984 for it to become a reality. I often think that the leftists cannot become more despicable, but then they go ahead and prove me wrong.
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  • Posted by smichael9 8 years, 10 months ago
    The last time I watched a Robin Hood movie (Errol Flynn stared in it) I'm pretty sure the basic context was "Revenue Enhancement" whereby he took from the rich and gave to the poor. When someone takes from the rich at the point of a bow or a knife, or in today's case by executive action, it seems a little less gentrified and a bit more corrupt.

    I'm not rich, never have been and likely never will be. We live comfortably and I have no complaints with my life. My youngest son is rich. He worked his way through school, worked hard, started his own business in a field he had a passion for and became successful at it. I'm proud of him and don't believe that he should be forced to pay for anyone who has no interest in working and would rather work the welfare system.

    I'm told that jobs are hard to come by in my state. My grandson wants to move near us and we have an local unemployment problem. He started looking for a job last Friday and got his job on Wednesday the following week. Forty hours per week, $10.00 per hour to start. It's not the ultimate job he would like to find, but he knows an important family truth, working is better than welfare. Working is good for your self esteem. Everyone should try it at least once.
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    • Posted by khalling 8 years, 10 months ago
      Ragnar:
      “It is said that [Robin Hood] fought against the looting rulers and returned the loot to those who had been robbed, but that is not the meaning of the legend which has survived. He is remembered, not as a champion of property, but as a champion of need, not as a defender of the robbed, but as a provider of the poor. He is held to be the first man who assumed a halo of virtue by practicing charity with wealth which he did not own, by giving away goods which he had not produced, by making others pay for the luxury of his pity. He is the man who became the symbol of the idea that need, not achievement, is the source of rights, that we don’t have to produce, only to want, that the earned does not belong to us, but the unearned does. He became a justification for every mediocrity who, unable to make his own living, has demanded the power to dispose of the property of his betters, by proclaiming his willingness to devote his life to his inferiors at the price of robbing his superiors. It is this foulest of creatures — the double-parasite who lives on the sores of the poor and the blood of the rich — whom men have come to regard as a moral ideal. And this has brought us to a world where the more a man produces, the closer he comes to the loss of all his rights, until, if his ability is great enough, he becomes a rightless creature delivered as prey to any claimant — while in order to be placed above rights, above principles, above morality, placed where anything is permitted to him, even plunder and murder, all a man has to do is be in need. Do you wonder why the world is collapsing around us? That is what I am fighting… Until men learn that of all human symbols, Robin Hood is the most immoral and the most contemptible, there will be no justice on earth and no way for mankind to survive.” Atlas Shrugged
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 10 months ago
    damn didn't I just get done posting no tax increases during legacy building and during the campaign. Not if you want to get elected. Of course if the moocher vote is large enough .....if 50 percent of the eligible voters don't register and half of them don't vote and most of the 50% that don't pay taxes don't vote ....i guess she can also claim stupidity is sexist. Read My Lips. No New Democrats and no New Republicans either. She's gotta be on whatever Pelosillynni is smoking. If it's a Value Subtracted Tax on top of the alreadyembedded Value Subtracted embedded taxes you know she and Comrade Benita have been bogarting together. That's who you want with a a major middle finger on the nuclear trigger? Wow! Scary!
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  • Posted by term2 8 years, 10 months ago
    Hillary is finished. Her story is OLD. Who wants a reincarnation of Nixon and his self-protectionist attitudes as president AGAIN.
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  • Posted by XenokRoy 8 years, 10 months ago
    Is that like "Male Enhancement" or "Boob Enhancement" come on give me a break on the word change the meaning.

    I mean wouldn't it be more clear to call it "Increased length of annual slavery contract" That just has a nice ring to it.
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