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jkirkthomas · 02-27-2013, 16:12

Trapper John said: "But then we get into an Ayn Rand philosophy and oh, we certainly don't want to go there."

I first read Ayn Rand when I was in college in the early '60s, and it made an impression on me that has stayed in place to this day. I have worked for a living all my life, and fail to understand how anyone can look themselves in the mirror if they think living off the government dole is okay.

But this is no longer the country I grew up in, the people who vote for a living outnumber the people who work for a living, and I hardly recognize it anymore. In the near future, to quote a Bob Dylan song, also from the early '60s, "There's a hard rain gonna fall," and all of us are going to get wet.

02-27-2013, 16:12	#7
jkirkthomas Quiet Professional Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: in the mountains of western NC Posts: 57	Trapper John said: "But then we get into an Ayn Rand philosophy and oh, we certainly don't want to go there." I first read Ayn Rand when I was in college in the early '60s, and it made an impression on me that has stayed in place to this day. I have worked for a living all my life, and fail to understand how anyone can look themselves in the mirror if they think living off the government dole is okay. But this is no longer the country I grew up in, the people who vote for a living outnumber the people who work for a living, and I hardly recognize it anymore. In the near future, to quote a Bob Dylan song, also from the early '60s, "There's a hard rain gonna fall," and all of us are going to get wet.
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