I don’t have a driver’s license, either. (Never did–I’ve driven a car exactly once in my life.)
Sir, this is the Secret Chicken Police. Will you please step out of the thread? I’m afraid you’ll have to come with us for… questioning.
A while ago, you said it was OK for you to accept money from the gov’t to go to college because it was potentially available for everyone. Given that you’ve now decided that “everyone benefits” is no longer a sufficient reason to justify a program, could you explain your new reason why it was OK for you to take money from other people for your education, but why it’s not OK for people to take your money for health care.
“Why did the Secret Chicken cross the road?”
“To get to the other side? Please don’t hit me again…”
You’ll never take me alive, copper 
No u (re obamacare).
Ya gotta love the type of poster always yearning for another poster to be inconsistent on something.
Anyway, I think there is no contradiction in choosing to benefit from a government program that I don’t think the government should do in the first place. They are independent analyses.
If you honestly think it has anything to do with Rand’s political views, and NOT his personality, then you’re definitely living up to your user name.
There are quite a few people here I’m friendly with who are conservative – yet, unlike our Ayn-Worshipping buddy here, they aren’t assholes.
Perhaps, but I find that somebody’s online persona bears little resemblance to who they are in real life. I suppose you could argue that who they are online is “who they really are”, but if that were the case then I’d expect to find far more racists and necrophiliacs and other assorted weirdos here.
For all his survival-of-the-fittest talk, I bet RR has helped an old lady cross the street at least once. 
Phyllis Schlaffly doesn’t count.
Well he would have, but by the time he had finished negotiating the price, some damn boy scout had come along and done it for free, thus undercutting the market and leading to overconsumption of street crossing services by elderly women.
I came in here to ask if Rand Rover’s name was Theodore Dalrymple.
That editorial scares me. The bit about “Why shouldn’t we let people die in the streets?” turns my stomach.
You missed the point of that part of the article. He’s saying that it is not necessary to recognize a right to health care to say that the government shouldn’t let people die in the streets. IOW, other concerns besides a right to health care can animate a program that prevents people dying in the streets.
This is, on virtually any day you could name, an incorrect statement.
The WSJ has some of the best reporters in the United States. The writers on its Op-Ed pages, on the other hand, are generally sociopaths of some sort.
I’m not surprised you think it’s great.
Starving Artist, is that you?
Yes, such as “who will clean up the mess? Ensure that these men die in a less conspicuous area, please.”
You know, this at least is a logical argument and I can understand your viewpoint.
Unfortunately (OK…really, fortunately) I disagree completely with it. So do a lot of people. I don’t like a bloated government any more than you do but we wildly disagree on what the role of the government should be and I don’t think I’ll be able to convince you of my viewpoint anytime soon.
Rand, would you be in favor of a 95% estate tax?
The Secret Chicken Police have no problem with that if you won’t… squawk.
I prefer the other Anthony Daniels myself.
But you choose to use something you consider wrong, how does that not make you spineless whore, and a hypocritical piece of trash?