Randian memery — SteemCN

Well the US wasn't anywhere near a truly free market at the time she claimed medicare, she may have had the money to retire saved up had she not been taxed all her life, if we were using gold standard currency, if the federal reserve wasn't bumping up inflation sky high and allowing infinite debt etc.

Ayn Rand's philosophy is based on a truly free market, the fact that she had to take medicare from a government monopoly (this greatly diminishes charity) in a non free market system doesn't invalidate the philosophy as she wasn't living in the conditions she had written about.

The text in the meme is something i wrote for comedy it isn't a quote, Ayn Rand's thoughts on claiming welfare can be found in the Ayn Rand lexicon:

'The recipient of a public scholarship is morally justified only so long as he regards it as restitution and opposes all forms of welfare statism. Those who advocate public scholarships, have no right to them; those who oppose them, have. If this sounds like a paradox, the fault lies in the moral contradictions of welfare statism, not in its victims.

Since there is no such thing as the right of some men to vote away the rights of others, and no such thing as the right of the government to seize the property of some men for the unearned benefit of others—the advocates and supporters of the welfare state are morally guilty of robbing their opponents, and the fact that the robbery is legalized makes it morally worse, not better. The victims do not have to add self-inflicted martyrdom to the injury done to them by others; they do not have to let the looters profit doubly, by letting them distribute the money exclusively to the parasites who clamored for it. Whenever the welfare-state laws offer them some small restitution, the victims should take it . . . .

The same moral principles and considerations apply to the issue of accepting social security, unemployment insurance or other payments of that kind. It is obvious, in such cases, that a man receives his own money which was taken from him by force, directly and specifically, without his consent, against his own choice. Those who advocated such laws are morally guilty, since they assumed the “right” to force employers and unwilling co-workers. But the victims, who opposed such laws, have a clear right to any refund of their own money—and they would not advance the cause of freedom if they left their money, unclaimed, for the benefit of the welfare-state administration.'

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/government_grants_and_scholarships.html