What is the conundrum, Carl?

Regarding Rand collecting social security: she has been criticized for that but unjustly, IMO.

Social security is deducted from the income we make, weather we like or want it or not. In fact we pay for it through a lifetime but get back only a fraction of it later in life.

Rand had all the right to collect it, rather than using her own funds. I understand she left a half a million dollars when she passed.

None of will shed a tear...I get it, especially because of the fact that the SS system holds no obligation to the fact that our money went into that system...they tell you point blank...you have no right to it.

Shame they didn't set it up to gain interest with our money and didn't Take it as they pleased...it could have been better than a 401.

I suffer no such conundrum. I've invested a piece of my wages over time and the ROI of that private effort is much farther ahead than what pitiful returns of the forced SS Ponzi pays back as ROI. I will take back whatever I can get and not shed a single tear of remorse even if the politicians spend it completely broke.

I agree but at the same time there is that conundrum...as I stated, I don't think she was as rich as we might assume.

She put money into a fund, not voluntarily, from which withdrawals can be made when you 'need' it.
She did not set the rules whereby money was taken for the input or available as the output. She qualified on those rules for contributing and for withdrawing,
Legal? Yes.
Moral? Yes.

Agreed...if there was a time that a minority should rule the roost, (the minority of constitutionalist) the time would be now!

As you might expect, they are ridiculous...and some point out Rand's distaste for socialism but she collected social security...in my estimation, that is a tough one.

I don't think she made the kind of money we might expect with all her books, films and interviews...unless she blew all the money she made.

The statements above reveal that Ayn Rand is the polar opposite of the progressive policies followed by the Jackass Party and most particularly those of its socialist Green New Deal for the quicker self-destruction of the USA movement.
Chicken-hearted RINOs among our career politicians are just as traitorous of the the Constitution and the American citizens as far as me dino is concerned.

Here's an idea: Maybe you can post some of those leftist memes of Rand and hold a "Can You Spot The Fallacy?" contest, LOL!

Yes it is...we are No one's collection.

Golden truisms. Wonderful collection, thank you.

#6 has eternal validity.

There were a lot of "leftest" memes of Rand...quite misguided and full of postmodern connotations.
I would have liked to erase them...let it stand for their stupidity.

I would have really liked to show Rand's humor but couldn't find anything.

Wonderful, OUC! Thanks for taking the time to ferret these out and share all in one posting.

There is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, therefore, there is no such thing as collective or racial achievement.

No "mind"...no achievement, period.