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   illostr8 said, 16 days ago

   Well, that about sums it up……

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   toasteroven said, 16 days ago

   Ah, Ayn Rand.

   You know, no matter what you say about Rand’s philosophy, personal life, or her profound influence on a generation of thinkers…

   She was still an awful, awful writer.

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   Ken Warren said, 16 days ago

   God was she awful!!!

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   HUMPHRIES said, 15 days ago

   ^^ Amen.

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   a.c.d said, 15 days ago

   ^Not only awful and longwinded, but marginally insane.

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   scottfreitas said, 15 days ago

   Atlas Shrugged was still a good read, though. Never liked any of Ayn’s other books enough to finish it, but Atlas Shrugged.. yeah, that one worked for me.

   Too bad we’re now starting to live parts of it for real, though with no hope of the truly necessary people going on strike…

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   4uk4ata said, 15 days ago

   Yep, voting to bail out the major financial companies might not have been the best idea. Of course, ANandy, if we are talking about bailout we might as well mention whose idea it was?

   Unfortunately, we’ll never know if the alternative was any better. Risking even more damage if the troubled companies collapsed in the general free fall the economy was at the time was a gamble a lot of people wanted to avoid.

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   harleyquinn said, 15 days ago

   The more I read Atlas shrugged the more I see our county today. The looters are in charge and going after private business. I almost flipped out when “windfall profits” was mentioned. And “for the public good” was applied.
   Now in all honesty she is a little long winded but man what a point!

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   kreniigh said, 15 days ago

   harley, who is going after private business in this cartoon? Is today Opposite Day and I missed it?

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    harleyquinn said, 15 days ago

    Give me one good example of President O helping the private sector? He is a Marxist, he said so in the book aryers ghost wrote for him.
    I also think if Ayn had written that book today there would have been a green spin to the looters. I mean Obama did hire a card carrying commi as his Green czar to bring about magic green government jobs that will save us all.

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    kreniigh said, 15 days ago

    The cartoon is about the govt wasting money trying to prop up the private sector, harley. Maybe you’re looking at a different cartoon and commenting about it here?

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    deadheadzan said, 15 days ago

    I read one of Ayn Rand’s books about the architect and thought her personal vision was rather apalling and cold as ice. Not a nurturer for sure. It was a relatively hard slog to read the book. And I’ve forgotten the title.

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    harleyquinn said, 15 days ago

    kreniigh have you not read the book so stop being a ignorant enabler and thinking for me.

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    lalas said, 15 days ago

    So HQ –
    We should pay no attention to how those private industries lost their minds and raped us? We should continue to let them rape us unfettered?

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    harleyquinn said, 15 days ago

    ooooh private bad, government good..ooooo Keep it up lalas.

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    lalas said, 15 days ago

    Um… am I wrong? AIG is a private entity that went completely bleeep and we’re paying the price. Wouldn’t a modicum of regulation have been a better option. Seems to me this discussion would be moot if all the banks hadn’t lost their minds and offered mtgs to people who couldn’t afford them. It was private greed that led to this debacle.

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    lalas said, 15 days ago

    Oh yeah:

    ooooh government bad, private industry good..ooooo Keep it up HQ.
    :P

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    deadheadzan said, 15 days ago

    Yeah, CITI went bankrupt after receiving TARP bail out money. Our money, tax money. Hooray for socialized Wall Street.

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    MurphyHerself said, 15 days ago

    Remember who her disciple was: Greenspan.

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    longtimecomicsfan said, 15 days ago

    The concept is that the government attempted to prop up the private sector because of the recognition that if the largest private banks failed, the economic fallout would be disastrous and could bring on another Great Depression. Some of the private banks have gotten healthy and repaid their TARP funds, others haven’t. But the banking system hasn’t failed, and we haven’t had to face the consequences of several high-profile Lehman-brothers style failures. heck, people were lining up in the street when IndyMac went under, just imagine if that had been BofA, Citicorp, and Wells Fargo…

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    longtimecomicsfan said, 15 days ago

    Government good, private industry bad, government bad, private industry good - it’s really interesting if you think about it. Is the government good? It’s the protection of our individual property rights, enforced by government, that enables our system of capitalism to function. Government can do bad things, and so can private companies, but if you think the government is bad, you should try to run your for-profit business in an anarchy…like, say, try to open a pizza stand in the tribal warlord-controlled regions of Pakistan or set up a bank in the Taliban-controlled regions of Afghanistan.

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    harleyquinn said, 15 days ago

    The government should not be good nor bad. What the book pionts out is that it should provide protection of a persons individual personal property rights and the right for a person to succeed or FAIL on there own accord.
    Long time you made a good point but do not know it. I would offer up a worn out war torn inner city street corner full of section 8 houses and apartment. Try opening up a pizza place there where people were not allowed to fail and feed off the system.
    Not saying a hand up is not a bad thing but when it becomes a way of life the out come is always failure. the longer you draw it out the bigger the failure will be.

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    Pacejv said, 15 days ago

    Remember Pogo’s comment? If you don’t, it does’t matter.

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    cdward said, 14 days ago

    There are many problems with the way our society has “helped” people. One problem has been that those who receive assistance are in essence forced to stay on it. If they get a little work in order to improve their lot, even if it’s just a little extra, then they lose all of the assistance, which is no incentive to work. Too bad, because as some of these folks start to work a little, it could easily turn into full time, and with that, they’d be off. Also, people who try to use their welfare checks for education have been booted off the program completely. So yes, the system is designed to keep people down. But the answer isn’t to simply kick them off.

    Better would be to give them education, and when they take initiative and get a little extra work, encourage it rather than punish it. Maybe reduce their assistance a bit, but let them still be better off working than not.

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    motivemagus said, 14 days ago

    deadheadzan - CIT Group, not CITI.

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    longtimecomicsfan said, 14 days ago

    Close, Harley, but not quite.

    In Oakland, Detroit, or Harlem, you can still call the cops, and there are actually shop owners that exist and thrive in the worst American ghettos.

    Try opening a shop outside of Kabul, and you can’t say the same, because there is no infrastructure to guarantee that you have rights to your own land or profits.

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    HARVIN GWIN said, 14 days ago

    If scotty boy read “Atlas Shrugged” I’ll wash every car in Los Angeles. You lie, scotty!

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    deadheadzan said, 14 days ago

    CIT Group, OK.

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    fennec said, 14 days ago

    If anything was needed to convince me that libertarianism was not the answer, reading Rand was it…

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    charliekane said, 14 days ago

    ‘zan:

    The Fountainhead. Never read the book. Gary Cooper was the architect in the movie.

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    ahab said, 14 days ago

    Pacejv, I love Pogo, Walt Kelly. We have met the enemy… and he is us. The basest ball Of all the game Is the one that travels hence. O’er our grass and our gloves And finely loves, The fence. Pogo is from Okeefenokee, at 12 years old wiser than most. Rooty Toot, from The Jack Acid Society Black Book, fits current politics just fine.