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To: koan who wrote (757482)	12/12/2013 1:21:09 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	3 Recommendations Recommended By Brumar89 steve harris TideGlider Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577191

Koan, Read a biography of Rand. You will be horrified. Read the biographies of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin. You will be horrified. Tenchusatsu

To: koan who wrote (757482)	12/12/2013 1:49:51 PM
From: tonto	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577191

How was she on welfare since she died with an estate of around $500,000 at that time? Where was this cult? She was a destructive person who ended up a crack head on welfare; and she ran a cult where her cult members had to get her Ok to marry or even see a movie. Rand’s last years were spent quietly, in Murray Hill, a neighborhood that incoming Objectivists had once turned into a kind of mini Galt’s Gulch. She collected stamps, studied algebra, watched game shows, and played solitaire, all the while coping with the long mental decline of her husband. Until she finally took someone’s advice to get into money-market funds, Rand kept all her considerable earnings in a passbook account at a nearby savings bank. When she died, in March of 1982, she was laid out at the Frank E. Campbell funeral home beside a six-foot-high dollar sign, made of flowers instead of gold. ? The New Yorker...