I call everyone a he until they correct me

I KNEW you were a girl!

I had a interesting conversation with a 23 year old yesterday that said "Our country is going to hell and I blame my generation." I was surprised by this. I picked up a paperback of Atlas which I will be giving to him on monday. He is on verge of understand and ready to hear the message.

There is hope with them, but we have to help those that want to see, to see it.

Its the same lie taught to high school students today... and because no one in the class *has* the ammo to fight it with rational questions and discussion, it is promulgated as undeniable fact, to which the students must, as given them by an authority, subscribe.

Somehow I just pictured the college kids itching their armpits and flinging poo at each other, to me that would be chaos.

Sounds exactly like Reardens brother. claiming society had helped get rearden where he was and that all deserved benefit from his labor. Also sounds like our "beloved leader" and his "you didn't build that" rhetoric. I work for a mid size trucking company that was started by 1 man with a couple of friends/partners. We now have over 800 trucks on the road and employ about 1000 or so people. the company would not exist if it werent for the drive and determination of the founder and now, his sons... Unfortunately sounds like these socialist clowns would try to claim responsibility for his success.

I have no idea. it was a good question. I pointed him back to 0.

This brings to mind 2 points - first, parents are responsible for the shaping of their children no matter what sort of schooling you send them to; if parents weren't passively unaware, the evil looting strain would not be so pervasive. Second, due to the nature of my workforce , having to explain the new ACA to my employees step by step has created a lot of converts: here is our insurance plan " I can't afford that " well, here is the link to the exchange "I can't afford that either - it's worse" here is the fine you'll pay "what?! I get fined?! Who says you can fine me for not buying something I don't want?!" Real life would change the art class philosophy real quick

I think they're surrounded by the idea that socialism is the idea most of their life, and had no reason to question it. And they are at an ideal stage of their life so they think it can be practical; they try to make it work. Since the schools system made sure they couldn't distinguish clear solid thinking from foggy thinking, I'm sure they thought they were succeeding until you inturupted the process by forcing the fog to take shape. Good work!

They will find out the hard way.

College students for the most part have not had to make their way in the world and their expressions of political systems are based more upon ideals rather than experience. Experience will change a great deal of their views over time. If chaos was the result of a challenged conversation, imagine the chaos in their lives when the world challenges them with survival. Imagine when they have to shoulder the burden do socialized medicine and a debt that is overwhelming? Views do and will change based upon circumstances. The problem is that they don't yet fully understand their circumstance. Everybody has that moment when they realize Santa is not real! Some will accept it and others will refuse to accept it. We need to focus on those that can and will embrace reality and leave the chaff to argue amongst themselves.

Like every system with faulty premises the chaos happens when people disagree over the excepions.

Did you give him a point?

Re: Esteban,

There is a simple explanation as to why college students don't know the answer to what socialism is. They are simply not taught the truth by their high school teachers and certainly not by their college professors.

Unfortunately, we have become a lazy society that believes history began yesterday. There is no greater truth then the quote by George Santayana, "Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it."

Therein lies the root of the evil of socialism and indeed communism that has crept into our education system. I was born in East Germany in 1948 and as a boy experienced both socialism and communism first hand. I have never forgotten when the communist government of East Germany confiscated my parents business and charged my father for political conspiracy for refusing to grant permission for the government to do so. Perhaps that's why I admire Hank Readen's speech before the court so much. Truer words as his written by Ayn Rand do not exist.

Any caring parent must, and I emphasize must, teach their children the truth about these twin scourges, socialism and communism, upon our nation. We are truly the shining light on the hill, that is as long as we don't allow the present administration to darken that light in their progressive zeal to eliminate the very freedoms that our founding fathers fought to grant unto their descendants.

To paraphrase Charles E. Weller, “Now is the time for all men to come to the aid of their country,” may I add, before it's too late.

Fred Speckmann

Because the idea of everyone having an equal existence makes them feeeeeeel so good. They don't care what the logistics would look like...they just want what they want because they want to feeeeeel good. (And superior too, I might add). Of course the discussion broke down into chaos after you shed light on their idiotic ideas...the only other way it could've gone is into a reasonable conversation and then they'd have to admit a few things they don't want to admit...and their bubble would burst in the process. Can't have that. Stick to the utopian script!