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To: koan who wrote (34784)	11/20/2012 11:14:28 PM
From: i-node	10 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

At the end of her life she was on medicare and social security, two programs she disparaged her entire life, and had been a speed freak for most of her life. Hypocrite. No. Not hypocrisy. Rand had, for years, maintained that people who put money into SS & Medicare should make every effort to get it back. She would have been a hypocrite to not do just that. I am adamantly opposed to both programs but I've put plenty of money into both. I am at least entitled to receive back what I paid in plus reasonable earnings on it. It is interesting that attacks on Rand are so often personal attacks, rather than attacks on her ideology, which is pretty hard to argue against. But you're pretty well known for not being able to make a coherent argument anyway.