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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs anyone else hearing Ayn Rand in this GOP Makers/Takers line of argument?
I don't expect that the AEI or Paul Ryan would know better, but Willard Rmoney sounded like he's about to head out for Galt's Gulch. I thought he was supposed to be too smart to believe Objectivist tripe.
Decipimur Sepcie Recti, particularly if you're a conservative.
reformist2
(9,841 posts)It's obvious in almost everything they write or say these days.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)oldhippydude
(2,514 posts)when i heard the tape...
louis-t
(23,199 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)person to better your position in Society is the theme of Willard Rmoney. Been doing it his whole life.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)"I got mine and if you don't it's your own fault. And since you aren't as smart and hardworking as I am, your only way to get ahead is to steal what is rightfully mine." The baffling thing is that they have convinced so many people that don't "have theirs" to buy into that mindset.
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)I read all of Rand's books as a young person, which helped solidify my identity as a Democrat. In any case, Romney bears no resemblance to any of her heros. She would find him pathetic. Of all her characters, he's most like the "weak" Peter Keating, which is actually a bit of a complement given he was one of the few with any scrap of humanity left.
maxsolomon
(32,992 posts)Mr. Romneys thinking on the matter has been shaped in part by Arthur C. Brooks, the president of the conservative American Enterprise Institute. Mr. Brooks said that he had discussed his new book, The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise, with Mr. Romney, who was particularly interested in whether redistribution would lead to a disengaged electorate with the government paying for programs benefiting more people with dollars coming from fewer of them.
Its not necessarily a good thing for the country that more people are pulling more benefits out of the system than theyre paying in, Mr. Brooks said in an interview. Thats not a healthy thing for citizenship, and its not good for these people themselves either, if they feel attenuated from their government.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/us/politics/romneys-anxiety-over-takers-conflicts-with-longtime-gop-stand.html?pagewanted=all