So How Would Ayn Rand Do on the Ryan Plan?

     Tonight's Romney's night but this would be a good question for when Ryan debates Biden. In all seriousness, what a can of worms this question opens!

     For one thing, Ryan is now pretending to barely know Ayn Rand. He's treating her almost like she's George W. Bush-or Cheney-or something. When Cheney came to speak with the GOP Senate on sequestration, they didn't allow any cameras in the room, to give you an idea of how toxic his personage is.

    He also did some fundraisers for Romney which didn't allow the two to be photographed together.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/13/dick-cheney-mitt-romney-media-photographing-event_n_1671656.html

    Ryan now claims that he might have read Rand in college or something but she's not very important to him now. This isn't he said as recently as 2009.

    http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/14/opinion/weiss-ryan-rand/index.html

   Now, however, he's not a big fan of her-she's ok, but Ryan is put off by her atheism. Right. That's what's really problematic about her not her Social Darwininsm.

   However, more importantly even, is that John Galt's Muse herself, actually ended up her life on Medicare. Ms. Shrugged on the dole! And she was far from a poor woman. She was comfortably well off. So while Ryan takes his mom with him to meet the old folks, maybe someone should ask him about another elderly woman he's closed to who was once on Medicare.

    http://www.alternet.org/story/149721/ayn_rand_railed_against_government_benefits%2C_but_grabbed_social_security_and_medicare_when_she_needed_them

   As a bonus, it seems that Hayek was on the dole in Autstria taking advantage of universal healthcare.

   http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/09/friedrich-hayek-joins-ayn-rand-as-a-hypocritical-user-of-medicare.html

   "This should put Hayek in some sort of libertariam circle of hell, along with Ayn Rand, who took Medicare and Social Security payments when she was diagnosed with lung cancer.

    To quote Blue Texan at FireDogLake:

And before any glibertarians come back with “but…but…she paid into it so there’s no hypocrisy” in comments, Rand herself wrote,

There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.

Adding an extra layer of crow to the deliciousness, the Ayn Rand Center for the Center for F*ck You I Got Mine Individual Rights has an article on its website right now titled, “Social Security is Immoral“.

Read more at http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/09/friedrich-hayek-joins-ayn-rand-as-a-hypocritical-user-of-medicare.html#P3zF5ifoaSZKALRr.99