Ogre’s Politics and Views

Another quote from that incredible classic and prophetic novel, Atlas Shrugged. And this one, although written back in the 1950s, could and does apply to 95% of today’s Congressman. This speech is addressed to every last one of those people in Congress who is voting to take tax money from working people to give it to anyone else who didn’t earn it: welfare, corporate tax breaks, “non-profit” organizations, and “disaster” relief:

“That’s what you want — that’s what all of you really want — not money, not material benefits, not economic security, not any of the handouts you keep demanding.” She spoke in a flat monotone, as if reciting her thoughts to herself, intent upon giving the solid identity of words to the torturous shreds of chaos twisting in her mind. “All of you welfare preachers — it’s not unearned money that you’re after. You want handouts, but of a different kind. I’m a gold-digger of the spirit, you said, because I look for value. Then you, the welfare preachers… it’s the spirit that you want to loot. I never thought and nobody ever told us how it could be thought of and what it would mean — the unearned in spirit. But that is what you want. You want unearned love. You want unearned admiration. You want unearned greatness. You want to be a man like Hank Reardon without the necessity of being what he is. Without the necessity of being anything. Without… the necessity.. of being.”

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