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To: Ed Hudgins; Mrs. B.S. Roberts

The word “expropriator” is too fancy sounding and academic.
Borrow that beautifully fitting term from Ayn Rand’s ATLAS SHRUGGED. In the book they were called “LOOTERS”. Plain, simple and to the point language.
The “producers” vs the “looters”.
The question...”which are YOU?”


6 posted on 04/14/2010 9:49:46 AM PDT by CaptainAmiigaf (NY TIMES: "We print the news as it fits our views")
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To: CaptainAmiigaf

“Looters” is quite correct! One problem in America is that many producers are also recipients of state handouts. For retirees, Social Security and Medicare is almost unavoidable. So there are a lot of otherwise honest and productive Americans who are sucked into the looter’s system.


12 posted on 04/14/2010 10:13:49 AM PDT by Ed Hudgins (Rand fan)
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To: CaptainAmiigaf
Lately, Tom Baugh in his opus, Starving the Monkeys has a great outlook on this: are you a man? Or a monkey? A collectivist monkey that is.

Here's his definition of a monkey:

In the context of this book, a monkey is defined as a person that chooses to collectively seize, by unearned means, the property, material or intellectual, temporal or spiritual, of its rightful owner. The means employed may be fiat, guilt, force, theft, fraud, subterfuge, or anything other than a willing and negotiated exchange of value.

In our modern world, each person is given the opportunity to make a conscious choice whether to be monkeys or men.

Conspicuously absent from this definition is race, birth, gender, heritage, cultural influences, or any factor other than that singular deliberate decision.

But men choose to live their lives upon their own merit. It is this very spirit of independence of thought and action that makes men the prey of the monkey collective.

As such, monkeys abandon their claim to the rights of men.

But monkeys could just as easily choose not to, and become men themselves.

Let's say that again: As such, monkeys abandon their claim to the rights of men. As befits any looter.

15 posted on 04/14/2010 10:21:32 AM PDT by Noumenon ("Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, that he has grown so great?" - Julius Caesar)
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