
Originally Posted by
speKzilla
DBD this is for you I will leave out some of my more strident ideas for as you will see you are wrong
1.Money should be backed by actual items of value gold, silver etc.
2.Until budget balanced no foreign aid
3.No troops sent to war without a formal declaration of war
4.No warrantless spying on US citizens.
5.No permit needed for concealed carry. No permit mentioned in 2nd amendment.
That is enough for now as I need to address another issue for the would be objectivist.
A. Part of Rand's philosophy was atheism you failed to address this.
B. Like many conservatives Rand ignored science she did not wish to be bothered with statistics.So, she smoked hastening her own demise. How smart.
C.She tapped into the social programs when she needed help even using an alias to avoid detection. My how the mighty do fall.
Now I must go fishing, but I shall return to further remove the blinders which the 2 of you seem determined to wear.
Item #1 I totally agree. #2 should be broken into two points with one being balance the budget and the other being no foreign aid without all the due quid pro quo that directly benefits our national interest with mutual open and free market trading. #3 & 4 & 5 I totally agree.
What is there to address on her atheistic views? Shouldn’t she arrive at her beliefs based on her own reasoning process or having your religious convictions coerced on her in accepting your views on religion? Those views take nothing away from her compelling views on how man should live in liberty without being coerced by others.
As for your point B it was her choice to smoke and she suffered the consequences which is the way liberty works. Some, usually lib types, seem to think people shouldn’t experience the consequences of their choices and actions.
As for your point C it appears that you are in lock step opinion with the Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michae..._b_792184.html that victims of theft having money taken from them for something they don’t agree on should just roll over and willingly accept that someone else knows better how their own money should be spent and stolen from them for other purposes and not get any of it back is an ludicrously evil attitude of thugs. And just because she disagreed with Social Security or Medicare and that she is now considered a hypocrite by drawing that money. I’ve been coercively paying into Social Security and Medicare for years something I disagreed in and now I’m drawing on both without one twinge of guilt or in any way considering myself a hypocrite though I do have great sympathies for those just starting to pay into these Ponzi schemes that haven’t yet reached their ultimate unavoidable conclusion.
“There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.” Ayn Rand