The "end game" memo from Larry Summers.

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48. A Randian psycho from Nixon and Reagan's legacy like Alan Greenspan:

Alan Greenspan

In the early 1950s, Greenspan began an association with famed novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand.[44] Greenspan was introduced to Rand by his first wife, Joan Mitchell. Rand nicknamed Greenspan "the undertaker" because of his penchant for dark clothing and reserved demeanor. Although Greenspan was initially a logical positivist,[52] he was converted to Rand's philosophy of Objectivism by her associate Nathaniel Branden. He became one of the members of Rand's inner circle, the Ayn Rand Collective, who read Atlas Shrugged while it was being written. During the 1950s and 1960s Greenspan was a proponent of Objectivism, writing articles for Objectivist newsletters and contributing several essays for Rand's 1966 book Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal including an essay supporting the gold standard.[53][54] Rand stood beside him at his 1974 swearing-in as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. Greenspan and Rand remained friends until her death in 1982.[44]

He has come under criticism from Harry Binswanger,[55] who believes his actions while at work for the Federal Reserve and his publicly expressed opinions on other issues show abandonment of Objectivist and free market principles. However, when questioned in relation to this, he has said that in a democratic society individuals have to make compromises with each other over conflicting ideas of how money should be handled. He said he himself had to make such compromises, because he believes that "we did extremely well" without a central bank and with a gold standard.[56] In a Congressional hearing on October 23, 2008, Greenspan admitted that his free-market ideology shunning certain regulations was flawed.[57] However, when asked about free markets and Rand's ideas in an interview on April 4, 2010, Greenspan clarified his stance on laissez faire capitalism and asserted that in a democratic society there could be no better alternative. He stated that the errors that were made stemmed not from the principle, but from the application of competitive markets in "assuming what the nature of risks would be."[58]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Greenspan#Objectivism

Just like the insurance adjuster deciding how much your life is worth in monetary terms...This shit sounds familiar, doesn't it.

We've been living with Libertarians running our economic and social policies as the working class lost everything. But then, Ayn Rand thought most of us should be dead anyway.

Her hero was William Hickman the kidnapper and murderer, her perfect 'Superman.' Here's the Tea Party hero, if you have the stomach for reading it (not nice):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Edward_Hickman

Thinks they wouldn't shoot us 'statists?' Then Paul Ryan and the rest of the gang are still trying to run things. There should be no surprises. None of these sociopaths should be free but they've got half the country thinking the same way.

Dangerous times and only going to get rougher. No tears over Summers. Don't let the screendoor hit you on the way out of town, you worthless scum.

And they run the media, teaching us to think just like they do. Sorry, I can't be nice about these guys.