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[Rogerdodger]

Famed NYC deli can't afford to stay in business after 75 years...

Edited by Rogerdodger, 02 December 2012 - 11:20 AM.

[Rogerdodger]

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Where are your morals.
Isn't every man your brother?
He is to me.
I always paid my workers well above the proscribed rate.

As a true "egalatarian" you should have paid them the exact same amount that you made.
No doubt you did.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 04 December 2012 - 10:31 AM.

[Rogerdodger]

Taken from the final pages of Atlas Shrugged, as the plane leaves for Galt's gulch the city lights begin to go out...
No one productive is left to produce, only looters and moochers.

VENEZUELA GOES DARK... 'CHAOS'...

"...following the 2007 nationalization of the power sector.
Television screens froze for several seconds as President Maduro was speaking during a broadcast of the awards ceremony for a national journalism prize. The words "It looks like the power went out" were audible in the background."

And I remember all of the "experts" in Atlas who couldn't tie their own shoes but ran the country.
Anti-Poverty Law Professor Makes $200k Teaching One Class at Public University...

Edited by Rogerdodger, 28 June 2014 - 02:58 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

THE COLLECTIVIST STATISTS IS UNLEASHED:
'DON'T LET ANYBODY TELL YOU BUSINESSES CREATE JOBS'...

She said: “Don’t let anybody tell you it’s corporations and businesses create jobs. That has been tried, that has failed. It has failed rather spectacularly.”

Besides "You didn't earn that."
and
"I'm going to spread the wealth around."

Just like in East Berlin, USSR, Detroit, Argentina and Cuba?

The Eighth Default of Argentina: From Independence To Elliott Management
Argentina’s president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner claims that the default is immaterial.
Very few countries have seen as spectacular of a decline in its economic standing over the past 100 years as Argentina has. The country started the 20 th century as one of the richest in the world, but has fallen behind …

Edited by Rogerdodger, 25 October 2014 - 11:14 AM.

[Rogerdodger]

Detroit is THE living (dying) example of what Ayn Rand had witnessed in her own native country and so vividly portrayed it all in Atlas.
Living the conclusion of Atlas Shrugged:

LIGHTS GO OUT IN DETROIT
'SYSTEM OVERLOAD'

DTE Energy Co. spokesman Scott Simons said "it looks like the entire Detroit Public Lighting system is down.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 02 December 2014 - 12:20 PM.