15 Signs American Society Is Coming Apart at the Seams | Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace November 21, 2009 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Editor's note: The following is an edited excerpt from the Amped Status report, " The Critical Unraveling of U.S. The economic elite have launched an attack on the U.S. public and society is unraveling at an increased rate. 1) The inequality of wealth in the United States is soaring to an unprecedented level. 2) As the stock market went over the 10,000 mark and just surged to a 13-month high, the three big banks that took taxpayer money and benefited the most from the government bailout have just set a new global economic record by issuing $30 billion in annual bonuses this year, “ up 60 percent from last year.” 3) The profits of the economic elite are “now underwritten by taxpayers with $23.7 trillion worth of national wealth." As the looting is occurring at the top, the U.S. middle class is just beginning to collapse . 6) 25 million people are unemployed or underemployed.
Critiques Of Libertarianism: Criticisms of Objectivism (or Ayn Rand). Part of the "Critiques of Libertarianism" site. Last updated 08/03/10. Ayn Rand was a truculent, domineering cult-leader, whose Objectivist pseudo-philosophy attempts to ensnare adolescents with heroic fiction about righteous capitalists. Links NEW 9/06: Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature Greg S. NEW 9/06: Blog: Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature Daniel Barnes has started a blog for the discussion of Greg Nyquist's 'A.R.C.H.N' and other criticisms of objectivism. The Heirs Of Ayn Rand: Has Objectivism Gone Subjective? Scott McLemee provides a charitable overview of the history, major factions, and controversies of Objectivism. Ayn Rand (1905-1982) Kelley L. Mrs Logic And The Law: A Critique Of Ayn Rand's View Of Government. Nicholas Dykes' anarcho-libertarian criticism of Rand's denuciation of anarchy. Libertarian Man! A John Bergstrom's Attack Cartoons feature that skewers some common libertarian/objectivist foibles. The Rights (and Wrongs) of Ayn Rand by R. L.
Ayn Rand Railed Against Govt Benefits but grabbed Social Security+Medicare When She Needed Them | Tea Party and the Right January 28, 2011 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Ayn Rand was not only a schlock novelist, she was also the progenitor of a sweeping “moral philosophy” that justifies the privilege of the wealthy and demonizes not only the slothful, undeserving poor but the lackluster middle-classes as well. Her books provided wide-ranging parables of "parasites," "looters" and "moochers" using the levers of government to steal the fruits of her heroes' labor. As Michael Ford of Xavier University's Center for the Study of the American Dream wrote, “In the end, Miss Rand was a hypocrite but she could never be faulted for failing to act in her own self-interest.” Her ideas about government intervention in some idealized pristine marketplace serve as the basis for so much of the conservative rhetoric we see today. “Morally and economically,” wrote Rand in a 1972 newsletter, “the welfare state creates an ever accelerating downward pull.”