Abortion — Ayn Rand Lexicon

Yes, that Ayn Rand.

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What was that Paul Ryan?

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Folks, I present to you: proof that even a broken clock is right twice a day, AKA one of the only things I agree with Ayn Rand about.

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Yet someone who claims to worship at her altar — a man who would be Vice President of the United States — wants to overturn Roe v. Wade and has backed legislation that is so anti-choice that it would make certain forms of birth control and in-vitro fertilization illegal.

Does. Not. Compute.

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Because he wants to dismantle Medicare and toss senior citizens back into the private health insurance market — with coupons.

My grandmother is 78 years old. In the last four years, she has been diagnosed with lymphoma and colon cancer. She’s had surgery, two bouts of chemotherapy, and radiation. While undergoing treatment for her lymphoma, she developed congestive heart failure.

But today, she is cancer-free and her heart failure is under control via medication. Throughout her entire ordeal, my grandmother has paid nothing for her treatment. She has not received one bill. Not once have doctors told her something can’t be done because it won’t be covered.

With that peace of mind, my grandmother was able to just focus on getting better.

I want senior citizens to continue having that peace of mind that Medicare promises them. In fact, I hope one day this country will be able to extend that promise to everyone.

If Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan move into the White House in January, that promise is in serious, serious jeopardy. And I will be damned if I’m going to let that happen.

FUCK YOU.

People hate the Ryan budget (you know, the one that would, among other things, replace Medicare with vouchers for senior citizens to buy health insurance on the private market), so Mitt Romney is probably gonna tap the architect of that budget as his running mate?

Why? So we’ll stop asking him about his taxes?

A) We won’t stop asking him about his taxes until he releases them (not likely).

B) We’ll start talking about a budget that guts Medicare, raises taxes on the lower and middle class, and actually inflates the deficit Republicans are (allegedly) so worried about.

Bobby Jindal would’ve been a safer choice. So would Chris Christie. Hell, I think Bob McDonnell would be a safer pick than Paul Ryan. The Wisconsin Republican might be young, he might be smart, but his budget will be every bit the albatross Romney’s taxes and tenure at Bain have become.

For the second straight presidential election, a VP pick could swing the race — and not in the way Republicans like.

Rep. Paul Ryan, on how Ayn Rand inspired his political career. (via theatlantic)

I am forever amazed by people who claim (rather adamantly) to hate the government, argue that government is the problem causing everything, yet they go out and run for public office. If I were a cynical man (and sometimes I feel like I’m turning into one), I’d bet these people were purposely taking government jobs purely to prove their “government-is-bad” hypothesis.

Logic tells me that if you hate a place or an institution, you don’t take a job there. Then again, I live in a land ruled by reality and facts, not some made-up private industry utopia where regulations aren’t needed and everyone’s born with a silver spoon in their mouth (or some other orifice).

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