candycorn
Diamond Member
A program to which she paid into, under threat of incarceration if she refused, therefore was perfectly within her moral code recoup that which was taken from her by compulsion.
Seems you authoritarian looters like to ignore that little tidbit of fact.
I think Ayn forgot to ask herself "What would Dagny do?" Rand was an absolutist. Social Security was wrong. Nobody should accept it. Period. No matter if you paid into it, accepting it would still be an affront to human dignity. Rand never waivered from her zealous hatred for the program.
Please quote Rand saying no one should accept Social Security. She did hate the program, as do I. It's a giant Ponzi scheme - theft on a colossal scale, but that doesn't mean you should try to recoup the money that's been robbed from you.
That is, until she was collecting the check herself. Then, magically, she came up with this post hoc argument that it was okay, just as long as the recipient called it something different (i.e. call it a reimbursement).
You're just making up bullshit. You don't know the slightest thing about Rand.
So, instead of trying to make swans out of ugly ducklings let's just call the duck a duck. Rand was a deranged lunatic who, when push came to shove, couldn't walk the walk. Rand taking Medicare and SS benefits can be summed up in one sentence: Oh, but that's different, somehow....
You're delusional. Cheap ad hominems are the only arguments you have. when you post an actual fact, perhaps someone will bother to pay attention.
Ahh, the conservative trainwreck of thought on display once more.