re: Hugh Freeze Quote Ayn Rand????

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our economy is suffering from the same things now that atlas shrugged points out. If you can't see that crony capitalism has taken over and is running new ideas into the ground you're blind.

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1. Rand was neither the first nor the last person to point out that businesses shouldn't collude w/ each other to the detriment of the consumer. This is a very run of the mill idea that economists of all stripes support.

2. Identification of a problem isn't the same as proposing a solution. And Rand's "solution" - that we should basically eliminate all gov't influence in the economy lest our superiors retire to some remote capitalist Shangri-La and leave us to fight over the scraps - is utterly ridiculous. It's fiction, I know, but so many take it as fact.