Yo, Paul Ryan! Atlas Didn't Shrug, She Put Her Hand Out

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Kant's "primacy of pure practical reason", eh?

What a phony cunt she was ...

On 26.01.2011 05:34, Dave Monroe wrote:
> Critics of Social Security and Medicare frequently invoke the words
> and ideals of author and philosopher Ayn Rand, one of the fiercest
> critics of federal insurance programs. But a little-known fact is that
> Ayn Rand herself collected Social Security. She may also have received
> Medicare benefits.
>
> An interview recently surfaced that was conducted in 1998 by the Ayn
> Rand Institute with a social worker who says she helped Rand and her
> husband, Frank O’Connor, sign up for Social Security and Medicare in
> 1974.
>
> Federal records obtained through a Freedom of Information act request
> confirm the Social Security benefits. A similar FOI request was unable
> to either prove or disprove the Medicare claim.
>
> Between December 1974 and her death in March 1982, Rand collected a
> total of $11,002 in monthly Social Security payments. O’Connor
> received $2,943 between December 1974 and his death in November
> 1979.[..]
>
> The couple registered for benefits shortly after Rand, a
> two-pack-a-day smoker, had surgery for lung cancer in the summer of
> 1974. Medicare had been enacted nine years earlier in the Social
> Security Act of 1965 to provide health insurance to those age 65 and
> older....
>
> http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/yo-paul-ryan-atlas-didnt-shrug-she-pu
>
> Ayn Rand Received Social Security, Medicare
>
> http://www.patiastephens.com/2010/12/05/ayn-rand-received-social-security-medicare/
>
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