Hillary Clinton shut down the haughty John Barrett Salon inside the Bergdorf Goodman store on Fifth Avenue in New York last week while she had a haircut and coloring, which reportedly could have cost $1,200. It’s imperative that she look good for her upcoming stump speeches on the excesses of capitalism and of “the rich” in America.
It will be interesting to watch Hillary, who has made more than $100 million (as have Al Gore, Harry Reid and similar liberal co-conspirators) through crony capitalism, invoke class warfare and vilify the successful in her quest for coronation as the Democratic presidential nominee.
“Atlas Shrugged,” the 1,168-page “door stopper” of a book by Ayn Rand, inspired many of us and foretells the politics of today. In hopes of getting you to read the whole book and to explain the banality of Democratic class-envy rhetoric, the following passage from “Atlas Shrugged” is called “Francisco’s Money Speech.” A character in the book, entrepreneur Francisco d’Anconia, is confronted at a party by a liberal interloper, who indignantly murmurs, “Money is the root of all evil.”
“So you think that money is the root of all evil?” d’Anconia replies.
“Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?