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

[Erik T. Burns]

Phoney Kant, for shure.

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
> 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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