Losing respect for Rand Paul

[Pat Mustard]

Why would it be?

Study the Danish economy and how it got to be there. You're doing an economics degree over there, any academic worth his salt will show you just how much socialist and social democratic policies have shaped the country into pretty much the closest thing we've got to Utopia on this planet right now (and yes I am aware of the provenance of that name. Instead of reading Rand in school, I read More and Plato).

You've got to remember, lad that you're young yet. You've not hit the real world and have the economic effects of the current system slap you in the face yet. I've seen what capitalism does to the vast mass of the population (and even at that being from Ireland I've only nibbled round the edges of its destructive effects, being lucky enough to having been born in one of the richest countries on the planet, what happens in, say, India to the unemployed is far harsher than what happened to me). When you've seen what happens when you're not the perfect drone (and even when you) are, you'll hopefully lose your childish infatuation with Randian libertarianism.