The Fountainhead - Howard Roark Speech (Ayn Rand)

wow, the most obvious INTP personality type ive ever seen. I feel proud now = D

That would be INTJ. He's a judging, uncompromising, and highly focused individual. ;-)

haha intp's can be the same way in the right environment, like he's in. I say he's probibly an INTP because his focus is on individual freedom ( which both types beleive strongly, intps a bit more so usually) and that he's doing it to the point of expressing his opinion clearly and bluntly ( for a 40's 50's film anyway).

The Government morphes into a giant thing that does not resemble nor do what it was intended to do. You and others like you are perfectly content with placing your full trust in the Government without thinking about the slippery slope on which your trust is based on.

The Government in America is an imperfect entity in which Integrity and honesty are relied upon in order to keep itself from becoming self serving and too big. If you dont see that corruption and dishonesty have creeped into our Government from top to bottom then shame on you. You will be in the crowd of suprised people when we collapse under our own so called Values and Morals that the Government of today keeps telling us is the basis for why they do everything.

Think deeper into the issues of what they are doing today and you might find that its not so moralistic to take over private Companies and run Banks and redistribute wealth. I see nothing moral in telling us that we need to take from Peter to pay Paul for no other reason than to make it fair and to support our Values (Not my values). I dont see that as moralistic. I do however see moralism in keeping a system (Capitalism) that allows for freedom and ingenuity for all to strive for.

Once we get back to that and Charity, not taxes, then we can begin calling our government moralistic again. Until then we can go for a ride on the slope to higher taxes and worse economy. Think about it. You are probably a smart person. Dont let your guilt get the best of you. You desreved everything you have. It defies reason and logic to stop moving forward so that we can GIVE others wealth. Goverment must "Make Sure" (Obamas phrase) that corruption does'nt creep into our society.

Demand drives supply, just ask any business man who cuts jobs when demand falls.

I have no idea how supply side theory was invented first, any rational businessman would have thought like Keynes long before they came up with supply side theory. Just because something exists, doesn't mean someone wants to buy it. Supply does not and has never driven demand. That would be the equivalent of the carriage driving the horse.

What are the problems of a government controlled education system? I attend a state college, and have learned a lot. Of course, NLP & DTI advance the learning process. Of course, terms like DTI and self efficacy were before Rand's time. Ayn Rand would have agreed with modern psychologists that we should focus more on self efficacy instead of phony self esteem.

Everyone lives off the creation of others to an extent. We live in an integrated society. To illustrate an example, none of us here created an automobile, or an electric power generator, yet we use electricity and drive cars.

This is why we have an open and free market for the exchange of goods with common legal tender backed by the good faith of the government. (fiat money) It's a good thing we have such a moralistic government in the US, as opposed to Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia.