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To: Lane3 who wrote (3051)12/21/2016 9:55:08 PM
From: Alex MG  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 361856
 
Reagan was a big fan of Rand. Reagan ushered in the era of kill workers rights, attack unions, give tax cuts to the wealthy. Reagan was a big hater of govt social programs, but ironically Ayn Rand denounced Reagan in 1981 when she realized he was siding with the "moral majority". She had one thing right, that religion and govt should not commingle. But it was too late, So Reagan also ushered in the era of "the american taliban", aka the "moral majority", which in fact stood for the opposite, immorality. The original US govt was founded on separation of church and state, but Reagan let the religious kooks into the kitchen

Alan Greenspan was also a fan of Rand. He believed that capitalism could regulate itself. No govt oversight needed, he presided over the dot com crash and all the other unfettered unregulated garbage such as Enron

And now we have Paul Ryan, who sleeps with Ayn Rand's book under his pillow at night, and just can't wait to stick it to all the poor people and give billionaires a huge tax cut

>>Perhaps you just read the title and wrote it off unexamined

nope, incorrect

BTW, I am not totally anti religion, in fact I am not an atheist, but I do think religion and politics should be kept absolutely separate, that is the problem with muslim societies, religion rules their politics. And despite what some American extremists say, this country was not based or founded on any religion... you can look it up, lol



To: Lane3 who wrote (3051)12/21/2016 10:16:00 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 361856
 
When Alan Met Ayn: “Atlas Shrugged” And Our Tanked Economy

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