Why do Ayn Rand's book suck?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey geniuses. It would be good if gold prices go down. It would mean Obama is not getting his way and the countries finances are making sense. If you think Obama will prevail, invest in gold.

If you think Bush's disastrous fiscal policy decisions have no impact on where we are today, blame Obama.

[Anonymous]

Yeah.... Clintons great bubble was the dot com collapse that killed everybodys retirement and left bush with a recession and terrorist debacle which is at the root of the easy money strategy. Easy money to reflate the economy and prevent a crisis of confidence with the trade centers destroyed and god knows what else. Could u imagine if the Capitol had been hit? I'm suprised the terrorists didn't use the national airport plane to hit the Capitol instead of the Boston plane. All of this can be traced to 911 and the 1992 recession. The terrorists will probably win in the end, they are tougher and more patient than we are.

[Anonymous]

Clinton wasn't in office in 1992, moron. If you are going to blame democrats for everything bad in Republican presidencies, at least try to make the story plausible.

[Anonymous]

Our current problems are due to the real estate collapse - which was GW Bush.

Please tell us which specific Clinton policies were responsible for the dot com bubble? The dot com bubble wasn't Clinton's policies so much as speculation by the private sector.

And why are you pretending to ignore the post that pointed out that Clinton's people gave Bush's people a dossier on Al Qaeda - which Bush ignored.

[Anonymous]

dunno

Rush seemed to like her (the band, that is).

good enough for me

[Anonymous]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJBLUQQ_a7g

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our current problems are due to the real estate collapse - which was GW Bush.

Please tell us which specific Clinton policies were responsible for the dot com bubble? The dot com bubble wasn't Clinton's policies so much as speculation by the private sector.

And why are you pretending to ignore the post that pointed out that Clinton's people gave Bush's people a dossier on Al Qaeda - which Bush ignored.

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool liberal, but a lot of the financial disasters of the past 15 years are due in part to the deregulation that happened under Clinton. I'm not saying it was his fault, per se, but he was president when a lot of it happened.

However, getting back to the thread topic, Alan Greenspan WAS chairman of the Fed at that time (and had ridiculous objectivist ideas about the economy)...and there was a republican congress for the majority of Clinton's terms. So nobody's hands are clean when it comes to the economic woes of the 90s and 2000s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:dunno

Rush seemed to like her (the band, that is).

good enough for me

This is what Neil Peart had to say on the subject: "For a start, the extent of my influence by the writings of Ayn Rand should not be overstated. I am no one's disciple."

No one's disciple. I wish Alan Greenspan had said that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our current problems are due to the real estate collapse - which was GW Bush.

Please tell us which specific Clinton policies were responsible for the dot com bubble? The dot com bubble wasn't Clinton's policies so much as speculation by the private sector.

And why are you pretending to ignore the post that pointed out that Clinton's people gave Bush's people a dossier on Al Qaeda - which Bush ignored.

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool liberal, but a lot of the financial disasters of the past 15 years are due in part to the deregulation that happened under Clinton. I'm not saying it was his fault, per se, but he was president when a lot of it happened.

However, getting back to the thread topic, Alan Greenspan WAS chairman of the Fed at that time (and had ridiculous objectivist ideas about the economy)...and there was a republican congress for the majority of Clinton's terms. So nobody's hands are clean when it comes to the economic woes of the 90s and 2000s.

I am a centrist, unapologetic Clinton lover and what you have said is only partially true. Reagan deregulated the banks, the airline industry, etc. The part about Greenie--absolutely true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah.... Clintons great bubble was the dot com collapse that killed everybodys retirement and left bush with a recession and terrorist debacle which is at the root of the easy money strategy. Easy money to reflate the economy and prevent a crisis of confidence with the trade centers destroyed and god knows what else. Could u imagine if the Capitol had been hit? I'm suprised the terrorists didn't use the national airport plane to hit the Capitol instead of the Boston plane. All of this can be traced to 911 and the 1992 recession. The terrorists will probably win in the end, they are tougher and more patient than we are.

What is this. I don't even...

[Anonymous]

^^was this sarcasm? I admit to difficulty playing along at home :0

[Anonymous]

The economy for the last 19 years has been fake. Dot- Com bubble-collapse-recession-rate manipulation-fannie mae/freddie mac /wall street/congress sub-prime nonsense, economic reponse to continuing(3 wars now) terror, real estate bubble-collapse, massive stimulus to save state workers unions do to lack of tax revenue, massive money printing to manipulate interest rates, goverment/commodity(gold)/stock market reflation with printed money.........guess whats next.....collapse.

[Anonymous]

Why on earth in this massive screed would you exempt Bush 1 market collapse of '87 and recession in 90?

You keep trying to blame democrats but it isn't working.

[Anonymous]

I'm not blaming anyone. It's all of us. We have gotten soft as a country so we play with money/papers/ideas instead of making things and being productive. We have done it for years and this latest debacle is the final grasping act. The world is on to us. We want to borrow/print money to give them for their work product while we dress in sweatpants and protest for economic security for working 1/2 a year as a substandard teacher in Wisconsin. It's over. Don't buy ay of the headfakes. I was fooled by dot-com, real estate, Greenspan, Bernanke, but I have always wondered "how come nobody I know makes anything or farms? Everybody I know shuffles around paper for a living. Why are so many people in govt. and finance while so few involved in industry? This is the real problem and the reality. We are in another bubble right now..a government bubble..It is unsustainable and it is far bigger than the dot-com or real estate bubble. Everybody instinctively knows this but it is not pleasant to digest the consequences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gold will go up until the money printing and low rates stop, the fed will make a bunch of head fakes that they might raise rates, don't fall for it . They can't .

Got a rube here.