AYN RAND's message to AMERICA

Even more relevant than when she said it in 1961.

Hopefully, we will see in our lifetimes a realignment of the GOP in favor of reason and individual rights and away from faith and tradition. Religion is a private matter.

As the Tea Party movement takes hold- we're seeing the ugly specter of religious intolerance gaining strength to rip apart the coalition of patriots we've assembled. Commentator Glenn Beck has openly declared that religion is the only basis on which the movement can proceed. At the same time, he depends on Objectivist commentators and secular pro-capitalists to make his economic and ideological case. You can't use rational men and women's ideas and simultaneously damn them for being rational.

For a statement of principle that ALL patriots can rally behind, visit www.PrincipledPatriots.us

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[timberskid]

Big business is not to blame for coercive monopolies or unfair competition. If government had no power to offer economic carrots (subsidies, soft loans, pull, etc) with peoples tax dollars, corruption in business would not survive. America was born on the principle of individual rights not granted by God. On the contrary, it was a rebellion of force of abuse against individuals by authorities, either religious or government rulers.

[jeffiek]

@BalkanibalX "Rot in hell evil witch"

People in hell don't "rot", it's eternal. Assuming it existed, which it doesn't

Witches don't exist.

You wouldn't recognize evil if it bit you in the ass.

[bbkingdom]

@timberskid Yes cos without government carrots we wouldn't have had standard oil buying up small oil fields. Without government there would be no multinationals who grow into monopolies, cos capitalism keeps everything magically small.

You are wrong. Competition is capitalism and if there is no law to fix it, it will completly on it's own grow into the winners forming an oligarchy sort of like communism.

Only law/goverment can keep capitalism functional.

[amalt37]

@914light Yes I'm American. Tell me how someone can earn resources they didn't create? Let me clarify about the 100%, I don't mean you can't earn any property. I just mean that you will always owe a small portion to the whole because you can never take 100% credit for anything you create. Sure your creation wouldn't be there without you but you couldn't have created it but for the earth's resources, which you can't take credit for.

[914light]

@amalt37 ..Good God ...I hope your NOT American !

[914light]

christopher hitchens mother ??

[amalt37]

Based on Ayn Rand's principle that what you earn should be yours, I don't believe in 100% property rights. The earth is interwoven and what you do to or with one part of the earth affects the whole. It always does but to different degrees. No human created the earth so there is no objective reason anybody can earn the right to use the resources. Usage and getting there first are not objective reasons to claim ownership of resources, they're just rules humans thought up.

[timberskid]

@KellyAnnOR As I said, if there were no carrots there would be no lobbying or corruption in back room deals. The government exists to protect each individual from force, not to administer force against individuals. If big business is being dishonest like the Bernie Madoffs, then the governments proper role should be to deal with them in the courts,. . but otherwise they should leave people alone to invent, create, produce, trade and keep the fruits of their own labor.

[KellyAnnOR]

@timberskid Big business does not create monopolies, "it's the government's fault". Are you mad? Do you know what companies like AT&T, Microsoft, and Intel go through because the government intervenes to prevent total monopoly?

Yes, intervention exists. It exists because said companies funnel billions of dollars into congress to make it so.

Think what you will about the founding principles of this country. But the reason for monopolies is simple: the profit motive.

[rcacad]

Talk about a bunch christian bashing the messanger and not the message...... again. What a waste of commenting.

[befranklintoo]

ayn rand must be the secret head of the jewish lobby.

[195ashes]

@BalkanibalX Ignorance is evil. You are full of evil.