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"Atlas Shrugged is a warning (of what can go wrong with excessive big government) not an instruction manual (on how to be President/Senator/Congressman)"

I quit when medicine was placed under State control, some years ago,”
said Dr. Hendricks. "Do you know what it takes to perform a brain
operation? Do you know the kind of skill it demands, and the years of
passionate, merciless, excruciating devotion that go to acquire that
skill? That was what I would not place at the disposal of men whose sole
qualification to rule me was their capacity to spout the fraudulent
generalities that got them elected to the privilege of enforcing their
wishes at the point of a gun. I would not let them dictate the purpose
for which my years of study had been spent, or the conditions of my
work, or my choice of patients, or the amount of my reward. I observed
that in all the discussions that preceded the enslavement of medicine,
men discussed everything – except the desires of the doctors. Men
considered only the ‘welfare’ of the patients, with no thought for those
who were to provide it. That a doctor should have any right, desire or
choice in the matter was regarded as irrelevant selfishness; his is not
to choose, they said, only ‘to serve.’ That a man who’s willing to work
under compulsion is too dangerous a brute to entrust with a job in the
stockyards – never occurred to those who proposed to help the sick by
making life impossible for the healthy. I have often wondered at the
smugness with which people assert their right to enslave me, to control
my work, to force my will, to violate my conscience, to stifle my mind –
yet what is it that they expect to depend on, when they lie on an
operating table under my hands? Their moral code has taught them to
believe that it is safe to rely on the virtue of their victims. Well,
that is the virtue I have withdrawn. Let them discover the kind of
doctors that their system will now produce. Let them discover, in their
operating rooms and hospital wards, that it is not safe to place their
lives in the hands of a man whose life they have throttled. It is not
safe, if he is the sort of a man who resents it – and still less safe,
if he is the sort who doesn’t.

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"Atlas Shrugged is a warning not an instruction manual"

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I prefer what's stuck on the bumper of my Prius:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v477/DriftPunch/PriusKrink.jpg
 

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I preferred "Telemachus Sneezed."

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It means that you're not allowed to go Galt.  It would fuck up their plans of reaping the benefits of your labor while sitting on their asses doing nothing.

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This is accurate.

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Then what does this mean:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3222/3029430859_00df2f57a5.jpg

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CUT THAT SHIT OUT.



Only stupid hard leaning leftists own Prius'. It's entirely UNPOSSIBLE that anyone else would ever think "hey, I'd like a car that has some room in it (almost as much as a Camry) that gets great fuel economy, and is made by a dead-nuts reliable car maker".



So cut that shit out. Seriously. What the fuck are you thinking?

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Then what does this mean:



http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3222/3029430859_00df2f57a5.jpg

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So what color is your Prius?

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It means it's a warning of how shitty the world would be if conservatives got their way. That's the intended purpose of the sticker I think.

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Then what does this mean:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3222/3029430859_00df2f57a5.jpg

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I believe that is a tea party bumper sticker intimating that Atlas Shrugged was a warning as to what will/may happen if you squeeze producers too far, as opposed to a state one wants to get to.