Ayn Rand Worshippers Should Face Facts: Blue States Are the Providers, Red States Are the Parasites

Ayn Rand Worshippers Should Face Facts: Blue States Are the Providers, Red States Are the Parasites: "There's only one way to demonstrate who America's producers and parasites really are. It's time to go Galt.

Last week, the New York Times published a widely discussed article updating an argument that progressive bloggers noticed a very long time ago. It's now well-understood that blue states generally export money to the federal government; and red states generally import it...."

Thom Hartmann: How Corporations Created the Tea Party Zombies

Thom Hartmann: To Be a Follower of Ayn Rand - Is It Necessary to be an Atheist?

My Thoughts on the GOP, TP & 'Big Government'

There's a lot of GOPs and TPs out there who think that our government is way too big and think it should be cut. Because they apparently think that:

• Helping the poor, the needy and the less fortunate is something the government shouldn't do.
• Standing up to the health insurance companies is wrong.
• Raising taxes on the rich is a bad idea.
• Holding the debt ceiling hostage is ok and raising it is a bad idea.
• Medicare and Social Security are the devil.
• Basically anything that helps people who really need it or 'hurts' the rich is a bad idea.
• Ayn Rand is amazing even though everything she believes in is against what Jesus taught and her hero was a serial killer.

But if they hate big government so much I find it weird that:

• It's ok to tell a woman what rights she has with her body and what rights she doesn't have.
• Corporate welfare is ok.
• It's ok to tell a religious group that their laws are wrong/dangerous and they can't meet in groups of more than 3 people of the same religion.
• It's ok to abolish a local government.
• It's ok to take workers rights away.
• It's ok to decide who gets married and who doesn't.
• It's ok to lie about why we're going to war.

These are just some things that kept running through my head today as I dealt with trolls who apparently think I'm drinking 'spiked' drinks. Although I can assure you I'm sober and that I'm not in a cult. Which is really interesting if you think about it. Anyone who is ok with some socialism or is a liberal is apparently in a cult and drinking the cool-aid because we can think for ourselves and care about the welfare of others. And more importantly, we question.

"Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.  Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.  Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.  Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.  But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
~Buddha

Thom Hartmann Calls Out Fox News for Testing New Frame - Takers vs Makers

This Ayn Rand thinking really needs to go away.

Ron Paul's 15 Most Extreme Positions

Ron Paul's 15 Most Extreme Positions - Mother Jones

I think the country would implode if he actually managed to become president and did all of this stuff. I wonder how he would feel if he had a disabled child and they got treated like dirt by the markets if we didn't have equality among the disabled. I wonder how he would feel if his skin was a different color and he got treated like dirt. And legalizing all drugs is just crazy.

GOP and Ayn Rand

The Morality of Rugged Individualism by Brian Cooney - The Book of Cletis

Very good article that Cletis posted, I had to share it because it goes along with what I believe about the GOP and Rand's philosophy.

Ayn Rand's Serial Killer Hero

Romancing the Stone Cold Killer: Ayn Rand & William Hickman - Michael Prescott

The more I hear about this woman the more I can't believe that there's people out there who see her as an awesome person with awesome philosophies.