Sales of Atlas Shrugged Increase

KingCondanomation said:
I can relate, I'm a lot more busy than I used to be, so I've also posted here a lot less than the old days.

I hope that wasn't a rib, because I never contended that the Iraq war would result in little government, I only put forth the correct argument that all wars end and that Iraq will mean little to restrictions on future freedom or weight on the budget. Unlike socialism, where Obama and Dems universal healthcare will just grow and stick.

If you could undo one of the following from the first half of the 20th century would it be the war in the Phillipines or SS?
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If you would simply acknowledge that there is not fiscal difference whatesoever between the Republicans, who have created the biggest fiscal mess in the history of mankind, and the Democrats, who are expanding the Republican platform, then you would be more meritous.

By marrying yourself to the Republican fuckheads, you lose credibility.
 
cawacko said:
Sales of “Atlas Shrugged” Soar in the Face of Economic Crisis

Washington, D.C., February 23, 2009--Sales of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” have almost tripled over the first seven weeks of this year compared with sales for the same period in 2008. This continues a strong trend after bookstore sales reached an all-time annual high in 2008 of about 200,000 copies sold.

“Americans are flocking to buy and read ‘Atlas Shrugged’ because there are uncanny similarities between the plot-line of the book and the events of our day” said Yaron Brook, Executive Director at the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights. “Americans are rightfully concerned about the economic crisis and government’s increasing intervention and attempts to control the economy. Ayn Rand understood and identified the deeper causes of the crisis we’re facing, and she offered, in ‘Atlas Shrugged,’ a principled and practical solution consistent with American values."

http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=22647


Edit: It would be nice to know how many books sold in the first seven weeks last year. Did sales triple from one to three or from 15,000 to 45,000 for instance?
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the fountainhead is cheaper, shorter and says essentially the same thing

i have yet to finish john gault's speech

ps: i have and autographed copy of anthem
 
KingCondanomation said:
Ron, what's going on with you? I'd have thought with the mega-growth in government we have seen in such a short time under complete Dem control, you would have been more pumped up than ever to fight against it but instead you barely post here and usually when you do it's about some odd police problem or something in the sports section.
Have you given up?
You know if it makes you feel any better, I know I warned for years that if the Dems get complete control they would be even worse on spending and so they are, but would McCain have stopped them or been a weaker version of them like Hoover and just delay the inevitable?
I'm not entirely convinced Obama was the wrong choice, the left could well have pushed McCain to do a lesser version of the growth in government they did and then (like Bush) blame laissez-faire Capitalism and push another New Deal when they got in in another 4 years.
Not sure what we'll see in 4 years now.
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BUSH WAS REALLY A LIBERAL!

Well Dano, Obama was really a conservative. How does it feel to look into the mirror?
 
AR: I don’t think plagiarists are effective. I’ve read nothing by a Libertarian (when I read them, in the early years) that wasn’t my ideas badly mishandled—i.e., had the teeth pulled out of them—with no credit given. I didn’t know whether I should be glad that no credit was given, or disgusted. I felt both. They are perhaps the worst political group today, because they can do the most harm to capitalism, by making it disreputable.
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:hand::hand::hand::hand::hand::hand::hand: :hand: :hand: :hand:

I'd like to give a big thankyou to the far right.

Ayn Rand IS prophetic!
 
And hes a made up charactor who only existed in the mind of a shitty writer who was all puffed up on an idea that is a total failure.
 
Beefy said:
If you would simply acknowledge that there is not fiscal difference whatesoever between the Republicans, who have created the biggest fiscal mess in the history of mankind, and the Democrats, who are expanding the Republican platform, then you would be more meritous.

By marrying yourself to the Republican fuckheads, you lose credibility.
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I fail to realize how saying Repubs were bad but Dems will be (and now are) worse means I am marrying myself or even giving Repubs praise.

Bush's worst budget had a $455 billion deficit (and that was with a Dem run congress), Obama's first budget has a $1.75 trillion deficit. Yes the left is worse and that is a large fiscal difference.

If you really, really want to see politicians change, a good place to start is to encourage and point out those who are good or better so they actually have a reason to change. Lumping hundreds of them together into some uniform blob of fiscal irresponsilibity betrays what is at the core of being a Libertarian - to judge others as individuals.
I'm sure you can remember as a child perhaps yourself or some lone kid who did not do what others did but still ended up getting equal blame, if it happens often enough, one might ask what would be the point in trying to be good?
 
RStringfield said:
He's not whiny. He is a manipulator and quite effective.
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Watermark never read the book, like most things of any substance, he simply tried to pick out what he could to get a decent enough overview to pretend he is knowledgeable. Just like his made up bullshit Waterfacts on here, he's often quite good at constructing arguments that sound believable and he has no problem whatsoever in inventing facts on the fly.
 
She is one of the most highly overrated writers in modern history.

The only people I have ever met that liked her were the ones who bought the philosophy she pushed.


They are fantasy ideas.
 
evince said:
The republican party has not been the fiscal party for 30+ years, they have merely claimed the mantle by lying.
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This is false, the Repubs in the 90's pushed for less government and made actual cuts. They also had the numbers to do it.
I think we can all look at Obama's bloated budget, massive spending bills and record setting deficit to realize Dems are horrendous at being fiscally responsible.
 
"Dems are horrendous at being fiscally responsible"

Spending on its own is not indicative of being fiscally irresponsible. If that spending is INVESTMENT, with expected RETURNS on that investment, it is much more fiscally responsible than merely cutting programs.
 
I have no clue how anyone can read her stuff, it is beyond stupid as ideology pretending it is literature never works. Boring crap, and selfishness just ain't pretty stuff unless you are ten.

And social darwinism folks has failed, has anyone noticed voodoo economics has failed? A society that worships greed soon fails on its green face.

What measure do we use to value a nation? Is it wealth and greed or is it the greater good. Can't believe anyone can even look at rand's nonsense after the likes of madoff et al. Betcha bernie has her on his shelf. LOL

http://www.politicalpass.com/2007/10/atlas-panted/

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." John Kenneth Galbraith
 
KingCondanomation said:
This is false, the Repubs in the 90's pushed for less government and made actual cuts. They also had the numbers to do it.
I think we can all look at Obama's bloated budget, massive spending bills and record setting deficit to realize Dems are horrendous at being fiscally responsible.
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The CBO and the GAO have both given the 1993 ombra the majority of the credit for the surpluses fo the 1990's.

That bill bore not one single R vote.

Then the Rs campaigned on how it would distroy the country (lies of course).
 
Onceler said:
"Dems are horrendous at being fiscally responsible"

Spending on its own is not indicative of being fiscally irresponsible. If that spending is INVESTMENT, with expected RETURNS on that investment, it is much more fiscally responsible than merely cutting programs.
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The private sector is far better with realized returns, they are after all in it for ONLY that. Whereas government investment often includes pork, earmarks, subsidies to those they feel bad for, higher education funding given to all regardless of likelihood of finding a job from the subject and green funding that still puts the price of what is being subsidized above the alternatives.
Even with this mortgage crisis, the 2 most heavily government invested/regulated entities (Fannie and Freddie) performed worse than the private sector.

Government is the greatest colossal waste of investment the world has witnessed.
 
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